2027 Internship - Systems Engineering - Power & Control - Austin, Texas, United States
Power Electronics & Power Management
Originally posted 15 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an ML Research & Systems Intern, you will develop disruptive, scalable, and monetizable innovations by turning ambitious hypotheses into validated prototypes.
What you'll do
- Develop system-level models using MATLAB, Simulink, and Simscape to analyze electrical, mechanical, and control system behavior.
- Support the modeling and evaluation of linear and nonlinear control systems, including feedback control, state-space methods, and motor control techniques.
- Analyze isolated and non-isolated power conversion topologies, power distribution architectures, and associated electrical and thermal considerations.
- Contribute to schematic capture, PCB design, component selection, and development of experimental hardware platforms.
- Perform hands-on testing and characterization using oscilloscopes, power analyzers, and electronic loads.
- Develop Python-based tools and scripts to automate simulations, process experimental data, and visualize results.
What you'll need
- Currently pursuing a Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Control Systems, or Power Electronics.
- Strong academic foundation in electrical circuits, power electronics, system dynamics, and feedback control theory.
- Experience using MATLAB, Simulink, or comparable tools for system modeling, simulation, and analysis.
- Understanding of linear and nonlinear control systems, stability analysis, and fundamental control techniques.
- Familiarity with DC/DC conversion, switching power supplies, motor drives, and isolated or non-isolated power architectures.
- Exposure to circuit design, schematic capture, PCB development, or hardware prototyping.
- Experience with electronic test equipment and a strong interest in hands-on experimentation, measurement, and hardware debugging.
Nice to have
- Graduate research or project experience in power electronics, motor drives, robotics, mechatronics, or cyber-physical systems.
- Familiarity with field-oriented control (FOC), sensorless control, or model predictive control.
- Experience with LTspice, PLECS, or PSIM.
- Experience designing, assembling, bringing up, and debugging prototype PCBs or embedded hardware systems.
- Proficiency in Python for scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning, including familiarity with NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- Familiarity with standard machine learning workflows, including data collection and preprocessing, feature engineering, and model development.
- Exposure to applying machine learning techniques to physical systems, including system identification, predictive modeling, or anomaly detection.
- Experience using Python to automate simulations, process experimental data, and integrate analytical or physics-based models with data-driven approaches.
- Experience with C/C++, embedded firmware development, microcontrollers, or real-time control implementation.
- Experience participating in collaborative research projects involving industry partners, academic institutions, or multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Skills: Power Electronics, Control Systems, DC/DC conversion, system modeling, PCB design
Market context
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 57-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Conversion
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Open roles in category
48
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (48 roles · 20 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 48 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 24 | 1413 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 1 d | 57 d (−56 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: Power Electronics, Control Systems, DC/DC conversion, system modeling, PCB design
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 13 open roles · median 23 d
- Power Integrations · 5 open roles · median 42 d
- onsemi · 4 open roles · median 97 d
- Keysight Technologies · 3 open roles · median 63 d
- Renesas Electronics · 3 open roles · median 46 d
- Eridu AI · 2 open roles · median 39 d
How we counted: 48 open Power Electronics (Power Conversion) roles from 20 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.