What are the responsibilities and job description for the RF Hardware Design Intern position at NOKIA?
Position: RF Hardware Design Intern
Number of Position(s): 4
Duration: 10 weeks
Date: June - August 2025
Location: Naperville, IL - Onsite
EDUCATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
Currently a candidate for a Master's or bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with an accredited school in the US.
Work with engineers on new product design, debugging prototypes, and troubleshooting customer field issues.
Specific work may include:
- Component (chip) selection, drawing schematics, soldering of electronic components
- Coding and running automated laboratory test scripts to test individual circuits as well as overall systems
- Troubleshooting design issues and brainstorming with the team to find a fix
- Analog circuit simulation
- Reliability prediction calculations
You have:
- Career interest and Undergraduate or Graduate course-work related to Wireless Communications Systems, Analog circuit design, Antenna design, and RF performance testing.
- Experience with or comfortable learning to use test equipment such as Spectrum Analyzers, Signal generators, Network Analyzers, oscilloscopes, voltage meters and power supplies, soldering iron, and basic hand tools.
- Familiar with creating content in Microsoft Office apps including Word and Excel.
It would be nice if you also had:
- Previous work/lab experience in RF hardware circuit design development, implementation and/or validation testing.
- Work/lab experience with RF test equipment and the use of RF/Analog simulation tools
- Experience in circuit schematic design and PCB CAD layout.
- Experience in the analysis and presentation of test data
- Familiarity with Python scripting.
Come create the technology that helps the world act together
Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.
We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work
What we offer
Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.
Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer
Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:
- One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
- Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
