FPGA Design Engineer Internship - Summer 2027 - AT

FPGA Engineering Intern

Department Description

Our Applied Technology organization puts some of Motorola Solutions' brightest minds on unique, highly challenging projects. Based on decades of experience with our customers, we apply leading-edge technologies to support security and safety throughout the world. We engineer our products from start to finish and manufacture them in-house. We're known for low volume and high capability with focused specialization in areas including software-defined radios, advanced antenna solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, signals intelligence and more. We can't tell you much more about what we do, but we can tell you it's amazing.

Job Description

Candidates for this position are software engineering students who want real-world development experience on products being delivered to our customers. You will be involved in the development of software for one or more projects involving our Software Defined Radio (SDR) or custom RF communication system. You will be part of a small (1-6 person), multi-disciplinary team that has full responsibility for product development from requirements gathering to final product delivery. You may be involved in all areas of development (i.e. requirements analysis, high and low level design, coding, documentation, and testing and validation). Our products are developed to very high standards of quality and reliability and you will have the opportunity to learn the department’s software process during all development activities.

The summer 2027 internship program will occur from 5/24/2027 to 8/6/2027.

Basic Requirements

• Candidate must be pursuing a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related engineering degree
• Candidate graduation date must occur between December 2027 and June 2029.
• Candidate must be a U.S. citizen with ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract. (See note below)
• Candidates with an active security clearance are encouraged to apply.
• Will be involved in requirements analysis and system architecture, through coding (VHDL or Verilog), test bench design, verification, synthesis, and FPGA placement & routing.
• Hands-on integrating and debugging with hardware and software developers
• For digital design tasks, candidate will design and debug digital hardware circuits using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are important. You will present status of your progress to other team members and to management. You may also have the opportunity to interact with our customers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing FPGA designs using VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Experience designing Firmware for FPGA or CPLDs using Verilog or VHDL.
• Experience in digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms, techniques, design of filters, etc.
• Experience with EDA tools such as: Cadence Incisive, Modelsim, Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus, Matlab/Simulink, Git.

NOTE: A candidate for full-time employee in our department must be a U.S. citizen with ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract. As an intern it may be necessary to apply for security clearance.