Electrical Engineering Internship, FPGA

About the Role

CesiumAstro is seeking Summer 2027 FPGA interns to apply digital design and verification principles to FPGAs for satellite communication systems. Interns will work closely with engineers through multiple phases of the development process, focusing on either FPGA design or FPGA verification.

Key Responsibilities

• FPGA Design assignments may include developing and testing RTL for high-speed serial interfaces and data streams, digital processing cores, multiple clock domains, and management interfaces.
• FPGA Verification assignments may include developing testbenches and verification environments, creating test scenarios, generating constrained-random stimulus, checking expected behavior, debugging failures, and measuring verification coverage.
• Assignments will be determined by a mix of project availability and the interests of the successful candidates.
• Interns will regularly present their work to peers, mentors, and CesiumAstro executive leadership.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Current enrollment in a Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), or PhD program in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university.
• Understanding of fundamental digital design concepts, such as combinational and sequential logic, finite state machines, timing, and synchronous digital systems.
• Digital design or hardware-description experience gained through coursework, research, personal projects, competition teams, internships, or other technical activities.
• Demonstrated ability to approach technical problems methodically, learn new concepts, and debug complex systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Prior FPGA-specific coursework or experience is not required.

Preferred Experience

• FPGA development or verification experience through coursework, research, internships, personal projects, or extracurricular activities.
• Experience with SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL, or UVM.
• Experience with FPGA or HDL development tools such as AMD/Xilinx Vivado, Questa/ModelSim, or similar tools.
• Experience in digital signal processing.
• Experience with embedded systems or board-level digital hardware.
• Coursework or experience in communication systems.

Applicant Eligibility

• To conform with United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.