Electrical Engineering Intern
About the role
Internship for electrical engineering on the Avionics team at Dispatch, building in-space reentry vehicle Spark-1 hardware and flight software collaboration. In-person in San Francisco for Spring/Summer 2027; U.S. export controls restrict visa sponsorship to U.S. persons.
Responsibilities
- Own or contribute to the design, bring-up, and test of power, heater control, and interface electronics for Spark-1
- Design, build, and test flight and flatsat harness, including drawings, continuity, and isolation testing
- Develop electrical ground support equipment such as battery and solar array simulators, load banks, and automated test scripts
- Perform power budget, derating, grounding, and radiation effects analysis on flight electronics and part selections
- Support integration and test of avionics with flight software, GNC sensors and actuators, and payload interfaces
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience through coursework, research, internships, or engineering project teams in one or more of: power electronics, embedded systems, PCB design, mixed-signal circuits, or hardware test
- Familiarity with schematic capture and layout tools such as Altium or KiCad; bench equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads)
- Comfortable designing, building, and debugging circuits and turning test results into design changes
Skills
About Dispatch
Satellites for manufacturing in space
Dispatch is building refurbishable reentry vehicles that host and return payloads for companies making ultra-high-value materials (semiconductors, biotech, and pharma) that can only be manufactured in space. Right now, these companies have no practical way to manufacture and get their products back to Earth. We solve this bottleneck. We just returned from the Mojave Desert testing our first full-scale reentry heat shield designed to protect the satellite as it returns from space at Mach 20+, built in an apartment for 100x cheaper than competitors. To test, we held it behind a rocket engine to simulate the forces of atmospheric reentry. IT WORKED! Watch here - https://youtu.be/dhlQmnIoptg To scale, we anchor permanent infrastructure in orbit - building high power Autonomous Space Stations designed from day one for "lights-out" manufacturing serviced by the reentry vehicles.
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