Rocket Lab
Electrical Engineering Intern Summer 2027
Long Beach, CA +1 · Internship · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
Long Beach, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ months of applied engineering experience required; 6+ months preferred.
- Education
- Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s, master's or doctorate degree program in a listed discipline; at least one semester of school remaining post internship.
- Visa sponsorship
- For U.S. offices, must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State and/or Department of Commerce authorizations.
About the job
Develop and test avionics hardware for spacecraft programs, contributing to electrical hardware development from requirements definition through production.
What you'll do
- Participate in design, prototyping, fabrication, testing, and production of electrical hardware.
- Collaborate with engineers across disciplines and apply engineering concepts to real challenges.
- Work with a mentor and department colleagues, provide progress updates, and develop technical and professional skills.
What they ask for
- Be enrolled in a bachelor’s, master's or doctorate degree program in engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, physics or math, with at least one semester remaining after the internship.
- GPA of 3.0 or above.
- 3+ months of applied engineering experience; internship, laboratory, and personal/team project experience is applicable.
- Work full-time, on-site for a minimum of 12 consecutive weeks beginning May or June 2027.
Nice to have
- GPA of 3.5 or above and 6+ months of applied engineering experience.
- Experience with schematic capture tools (preferably Altium), custom circuits, PCB/PCBA layout, electronics test equipment, or programming/scripting languages.
Pay
$28.00 USD Hourly (base salary)
Tools
Altium, multimeters, oscilloscopes, C/C++, Python, VHDL, Verilog
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