What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineering Intern position at PA Consulting?
Company Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
Job Description
PA Consulting empowers people through design, engineering, and science. As a consultancy, PA works across an array of industries and disciplines to turn inventive ideas into innovative products that meet the challenging goals of our clients. We work in everything from surgical robotics to tiny audio devices to industrial construction tools.
We seek intern candidates who are dedicated to applying practical engineering skills and who look at this as an opportunity to learn and develop themselves while effectively working on real-world challenges.
PA engineering interns gain exposure to product development as members of active project teams. As activities are heavily project-determined, an intern could find themselves involved in different phases of the development cycle.
Typical intern activities may include:
early phase conceptualization and brainstorming
collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams
specifying and purchasing components, materials, and supplies
designing schematics and layout in Altium
soldering boards and working with prototypes in the lab
using lab equipment for tests and measurements
troubleshooting of models/systems
testing/optimization of systems for subsequent commercialization
interfacing directly with vendors and potentially clients
developing code in a scripting language such as Python to interface with electromechanical systems or analyze datasets
Qualifications
Candidates for this position:
are knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals, including circuit theory
are currently pursuing a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or related field and will return to an academic program at the end of the internship.
are flexible, creative, adaptable, and demonstrate a desire to learn
are willing to work hands-on building circuits
effectively communicate their work and ideas to interdisciplinary groups
Additional qualities we are looking for:
enthusiasm, self-motivation, and the ability to thrive in an informal work environment with minimal supervision
familiarity with EE schematic and layout tools
The signing of a non-disclosure agreement to maintain client confidentiality is a necessary condition of employment.
Candidates are encouraged to bring a portfolio or samples of work in the form of slides and/or physical objects to their interview for review and discussion.
Additional Information
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
