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Electrical Engineering Intern (Summer 2024)

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The Boring Company

Nov 29, 2023

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Engineering
  • Austin

Requirements

  • Basic Qualifications:
  • High School diploma or GED and pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related degree.
  • Prior coursework or experience in analog and digital electronics design.
  • Preferred Skills and Experience:
  • Strong fundamentals in analog and digital electronics.
  • Strong teamwork skills with a proven ability to effectively interact and collaborate with other engineering disciplines.
  • Previous internship experience or participation in Not-a-Boring-Competition is a plus.
  • Acute attention to detail.
  • knowledge of feedback control systems for electric machines.
  • Analog and digital circuit design and simulation.
  • Experience working with PLCs (Beckhoff a major plus).
  • Hands-on experience with lab tools (oscilloscope, digital multimeter, soldering iron, etc).
  • CAD experience.
  • Additional Requirements:
  • Position may require extended hours and weekend work.
  • Ability to travel last minute up to 20%.
  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

  • Design electrical systems such as PLC and communications networks, data acquisitions systems, motor control systems, high voltage power distribution systems, and electrical distribution panels for our proprietary tunnel boring machine.
  • Oversee the development of electronics systems (some custom and some COTS).
  • Component selection and working with external vendors.
  • Work with other engineers to integrate electrical systems with mechanical structures, mechanisms, software packages and civil engineering systems.

The Boring Company creates safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels.

Manufacturing & Electronics
Industry
51-200
Employees

Mission & Purpose

To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels. Unlike flying cars, tunnels are weatherproof, out of sight and won't fall on your head. A large network of tunnels many levels deep would fix congestion in any city, no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels). The key to making this work is increasing tunneling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more – this is the goal of The Boring Company. Fast to dig, low cost tunnels would also make Hyperloop adoption viable and enable rapid transit across densely populated regions, enabling travel from New York to Washington DC in less than 30 minutes.