Hardware Engineering Intern (EE)
$40 USD hourly
Join the Digital and Photonics R&D team designing multi-GHz board-level hardware for high-performance oscilloscopes.
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an Electrical Engineering Intern on the Digital and Photonics R&D team, you will help design, integrate, and validate high-performance electronic hardware for advanced instrumentation and measurement systems. The team develops high-performance oscilloscopes, involving multi-GHz board-level digital and mixed-signal hardware designs approaching 10 GHz.
What you'll do
- Contribute to high-speed board-level digital and mixed-signal hardware development across the full lifecycle, from component selection and schematic capture through board bring-up, validation, and troubleshooting.
- Design and evaluate clock and timing circuitry, including oscillators, PLLs, clock generators, buffers, synchronization, and jitter-sensitive circuits.
- Develop power architectures using DC/DC converters and LDOs, managing sequencing, decoupling, grounding, and low-noise power distribution for analog, digital, and FPGA components.
- Partner with PCB and signal-integrity engineers on material selection, stack-up, impedance targets, high-speed routing, via structures, and return paths.
- Perform hands-on board bring-up using lab equipment such as high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, TDR/TDT, logic analyzers, and power supplies.
- Collaborate with software and FPGA engineers on device initialization, register configuration, diagnostics, and hardware/software integration.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on hardware experience with schematic design, PCB/PCA development, board bring-up, measurement, or root-cause analysis through academic labs, projects, internships, or professional work.
- Strong digital-electronics fundamentals combined with practical knowledge of analog and mixed-signal circuitry.
- Foundational understanding of transmission lines, controlled impedance, termination, reflections, crosstalk, return paths, and PCB parasitics.
- Familiarity with clock and timing concepts, including oscillators, PLLs, clock generation and distribution, synchronization, and jitter.
- Familiarity with high-speed digital interfaces and interest in signal integrity and power integrity.
Nice to have
- Academic, project, or internship exposure to multi-GHz signals, fast edge rates, SERDES, multi-gigabit serial links, or design techniques up to 10 GHz.
- Exposure to high-speed ADCs/DACs and FPGA-based acquisition or signal-processing hardware.
- Familiarity with S-parameters, VNA measurements, TDR/TDT, eye diagrams, jitter analysis, or channel characterization.
- Exposure to ADS, SystemVue, S-parameter models, or SI/PI simulation tools.
- Experience with Python, C/C++, or MATLAB for hardware characterization, diagnostics, data analysis, or test automation.
- Exposure to EMI/EMC design, troubleshooting, or electronic instrumentation hardware.
Skills: board-level, PCB, signal integrity, bring-up, oscilloscope
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 95-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
97
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Median days since first seen
95 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$196k
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| Metric | Keysight Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (97 roles · 35 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 97 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 155 | 6598 · 157 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 164 d | 95 d (−69 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $196k |
Skills observed across this category: board-level, PCB, signal integrity, bring-up, oscilloscope
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 20 open roles · median 138 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 186 d
- AMD · 7 open roles · median 54 d
- Intel Corporation · 5 open roles · median 28 d
- Astera Labs · 4 open roles · median 54 d
- Graphcore · 4 open roles · median 24 d
How we counted: 97 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 35 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.