2025 DSPFPGA Engineer Summer Intern
2025 DSPFPGA Engineer Summer Intern
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Overview
Thales Defense & Security Inc.(TDSI)Headquartered in Clarksburg MD is a U.S. company that has been serving domestic and international defense Air Land and Sea domains for 60 years. With over 1000 employees TDSI and its three subsidiaries (Tampa Microwave Advanced Acoustic Concepts and Trusted Cyber Technologies) supports U.S. Joint Services special operations forces and multinational partners with a variety of communication visualization electronic warfare and sensor/sonar capabilities. TDSIs key technologies include tactical handheld radios expeditionary satellite terminals helmetmounted displays optics and target recognition capability advanced radars undersea sensing and missile systems. Lives depend on what we do!
Thales Defense & Security Inc. has an opening for an intern within the Software Engineering department for 8 weeks during the summer of 2025. This position will be responsible for some entrylevel assignments that will provide exposure to the software engineering job family. This position is located in the Germantown MD office and reports to the Manager of Engineering.
Please Note: The Intern must be prepared to start in Germantown MD in Summer 2025.
Responsibilities
During your summer internship with missiondriven engineers you will contribute to the design implementation and testing of DSP solutions for various mission applications on next generation SoftwareDefined Radio (SDR) signal processing hardware. Some of the skills you can expect to develop include:
- Understanding the intricacies of DSP algorithms for various SDR applications.
- Learn to develop and implement FPGAbased solutions for signal processing tasks.
- Participate in the verification and testing of DSP/FPGA designs.
- Help document design specifications test procedures and results.
- Learn and utilize industrystandard tools for DSP/FPGA development.
- Assisting in the setup and maintenance of DSP lab equipment.
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- U.S. Citizenship required. Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Must be enrolled in an accredited university of college and have completed at least 2 semesters within the engineering field of study. Electrical Engineering preferred.
- Knowledge of Digital Signal Processing/Digital Communications algorithms and techniques (Turbo/Viterbi coding/decoding Channel Estimation Equalization Filter Design Resampling Theory etc.
- Experience with high speed digital interfaces experience in either/or Xilinx and Altera design.
- Experience coding in Verilog and/or VHDL.
- Familiarity with Matlab or Python required. C/C or other programming languages is desired.
- Understanding of wireless communication theory and signal processing theory is a plus.
- Must be proficient in English both verbal and written.
- Ability to comply with all Company guidelines policies procedures and embrace Company Core Values.
The hourly pay range for this role is $22.00 $25.00 USD. The hour pay range provided is a good faith estimate representative of the experience level for the role described above. TDSI considers several factors when extending an offer including but not limited to the role function and associated responsibilities a candidates work experience location education/training and key skills.
For specific questions about this job posting candidates may contact the recruiter at
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Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
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