About the role#
This internship is based in Santa Rosa, California, within the Digital and Photonics R&D team. You will work on high-performance oscilloscopes alongside experienced hardware, signal-integrity, FPGA, and software specialists. The role focuses on developing your hardware design skills through hands-on mentorship, collaborative design reviews, and laboratory work. You will move from contributing to individual circuits toward taking ownership of larger design components.
What you'll do#
- Contribute to the design and development of high-speed board-level digital and mixed-signal hardware, including multi-GHz designs.
- Participate in the full hardware-development lifecycle, from architecture and component selection to schematic capture and PCB implementation.
- Design and evaluate clock and timing circuitry, including oscillators, PLLs, and jitter-sensitive circuits.
- Develop power architectures, including DC/DC converters, LDOs, and low-noise power distribution.
- Perform board bring-up and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, and logic analyzers.
- Partner with PCB and signal-integrity engineers on routing, stack-up, and impedance targets.
- Collaborate with software and FPGA engineers on device initialization, diagnostics, and hardware integration.
- Support hardware verification, design documentation, and EMI/EMC activities.
- Use simulation tools like SPICE and SI/PI models to predict and correlate hardware performance.
What you'll need#
- A BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on hardware experience from internships, research, student teams, or personal projects.
- Strong digital-electronics fundamentals and a practical foundation in analog and mixed-signal circuitry.
- Experience with schematic design, PCB development, board bring-up, or root-cause analysis.
- Foundational understanding of transmission lines, controlled impedance, termination, and PCB parasitics.
- Familiarity with clock and timing concepts, such as oscillators and jitter.
- Interest in signal and power integrity for high-performance hardware.
- Ability to work across hardware, software, and FPGA boundaries during system diagnosis.
- Preferred: Exposure to multi-GHz signals, SERDES, S-parameters, VNA measurements, or simulation tools like ADS.
- Preferred: Experience with Python, C/C++, or MATLAB for test automation and data analysis.
Location & details#
- Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time, paid internship.
- Term: Rolling.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies provides software-centric solutions for design and development engineering. The company serves customers in markets including aerospace, defense, automotive, energy, and semiconductors. Based in Santa Rosa, California, the firm operates globally with a workforce of approximately 15,000 employees. It holds over 2,000 patents and supports nearly 32,000 customers worldwide.
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