Intern, Electrical Engineering

Overview

Waters | Wyatt Technology is always looking to hire outstanding future talent for our company. The Waters | Wyatt Technology team is looking to hire an Electrical Engineering Intern out of our Santa Barbara, California location.

Waters is laser focused on:

Groundbreaking Life-Science Innovation: With our scientific expertise, we aim to solve problems that matter. We develop innovative analytical technologies to catalyze groundbreaking advancements in drug discovery, propel clinical development, and ensure the safety and quality of both small and large molecule therapies, including novel modalities such as Cell & Gene Therapy and mRNA.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Our people are paramount in enabling us to solve problems that matter. Waters is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that is representative of the societies we live in. Our approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is designed to shift attitudes, foster inclusive behaviors, and encourage increased representation of employees with diverse backgrounds.

Global Impact: With operations in over 35 countries and a global team of over 8,000, our work goes beyond the life sciences. We contribute to ensuring the safety of food and water, such as precise PFAS measurement, and advancing new materials and technology, including batteries for electric vehicles.

Responsibilities

Electrical Engineering Interns are very important resources for R&D and sustaining team in repairing defective electrical PCB assemblies, reducing rework engineering (RWE) warehouse materials, and building prototype bread boards and cable assemblies. This position also needs to design and build tools for testing PCB assemblies to assist quality department to screen defective boards. Previous experience with EE interns at Wyatt has proved that they are imperative resources in assisting R&D projects, finishing small well-defined projects, and reduce RWE value.

• Troubleshoot, rework, and perform functional tests for defective PCB assemblies

• Building prototype PCB and cable assemblies.

• Design, build, and program R&D tools for testing Wyatt PCB assemblies.

• Following Wyatt quality process and document designs and reworks

• Assist Wyatt engineers in evaluating and testing electrical prototypes

Qualifications

• Current enrollment in an Electrical Engineering degree-seeking program at the Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate level.

• Internship Work Period: Must be available to work full-time (approximately 40 hours per week) during a 9 - 12-week period.

• Basic engineering lab equipment (oscilloscope, DMM, etc.)

• Knowledge of time and frequency domain circuit analysis

• Knowledge of analog and digital circuits design and analysis

• Experience of soldering surface mounted electronic components on PCBs.

• Experience in Altium designer or similar design tools

• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting printed circuit boards, isolating and debugging hardware problems.

• Strong ability to isolate and debug hardware and firmware problems

• Experience in script programing language, e.g., python, is preferred.

• Ability to work well in a team environment.

The pay rate for this internship is $21-$25 per hour.

Company Description

Waters and Wyatt share a science-led heritage and a customer-focused culture, and solving the most critical scientific challenges is a powerful mission that unites us both. We are One Company with One Focus, providing customers with cutting edge technologies and scientific expertise to support the research, development, and delivery of novel therapeutics and next-generation materials. By joining our company, you'll join a collaborative team of innovators and problem-solvers, a team that is working hard to leave the world better than we found it. We support our employees as they achieve success at work and beyond, realizing rewarding careers, healthy lives, and bright futures. One Company. One Focus.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters | Wyatt Technology. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.