About the role#
Meter builds networking hardware that businesses depend on to stay connected. We are hiring Hardware Engineering Interns to explore and solve technical problems across our hardware engineering and operations teams. During this 12-week internship, you will own a well-scoped project based on your interests, experience, and the problems that matter most to Meter. This is a hands-on role where you will work alongside engineers, operators, and manufacturing partners to build and test solutions.
What you'll do#
- Design, build, and test electrical or mechanical prototypes for future products.
- Evaluate components, technologies, architectures, materials, and suppliers.
- Develop test plans and characterize performance, reliability, thermals, acoustics, power, or system-level behavior.
- Work with networking hardware, PCBAs, mechanical assemblies, test equipment, and manufacturing samples.
- Analyze manufacturing, component, or supply chain data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Work with overseas suppliers and manufacturing partners to understand technical capabilities, constraints, and scalability.
- Explore sustainability, repairability, refurbishment, component reuse, and recycling opportunities.
- Work cross-functionally with hardware engineering, supply chain, operations, software, product, and finance teams.
- Present findings and recommendations to the Hardware team.
What you'll need#
- Pursuing a degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, supply chain, or a related technical field.
- Ability to take ambiguous technical problems and break them into questions to answer through engineering and experimentation.
- Experience building, testing, debugging, or taking apart hardware, or a strong eagerness to learn.
- Comfort getting hands-on with physical systems, including PCBAs, mechanical assemblies, test equipment, prototypes, and manufacturing data.
- Ability to use data to make engineering decisions.
- Comfort learning new concepts and asking questions when you do not understand something.
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and turn work into actionable recommendations.
Location & details#
- This is a full-time, on-site role based in San Francisco, California.
- The internship term is rolling.
About Meter
Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. The company builds networks that integrate hardware, software, and operations. Founded in 2015, the firm is based in San Francisco. It employs approximately 277 people.
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