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OPT IOT (Electronics) Engineer Virtual Internship

Local Grown Salads
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The IoT Engineer is part of a team designing a unit that will manage sensors and various hardware devices. The CPU an off the shelf ESP32 with 8 relays on the board. The IoT unit will be directly connected to sensors and nmanage the devices wih the relays. It will communicate through MQTT and Zigbee.

You can find out more in the LGS IoT Engineer Brief.

If you really want a positions. read this carefully and all the way to the end. 

You are being tested on your ability to follow detailed instructions. 

We have a 25 hour/week unpaid virtual internship program for F1 OPT students that provides real work experience, the type employees want.

We have students from ASU, U of North Texas,, and many others.
We have had 300+ OPT interns.

The program provides...

- Practical technical experience
- Communications skills
- Meeting skills
- Working In a team within an organized process
- Assistance in job hunting

Our goal is real work experience that can impress in interviews 

Make sure you are following our rules or your application will be rejected:

  • If you are an OPT Student - do not apply until you have an OPT start date and you can start within two weeks
  • If you are a CPT student - you must have approval from your university and can start within two weeks. Do not apply through Handshake, your application will be rejected. Read on for details on how to apply.
  • If you are a regular undergraduate looking for a traditional internship - do not apply through handshake, it will be rejected, read on for how to apply.

If you are a regular graduate looking for an 8 week internship while job hunting, apply after you have graduated through handshake and continue reading. Do not apply unless you can start in two weeks.

Do Not Apply If You Can Not Start Work Within 2 Weeks. You resume will be rejected.

We are looking for several Electrical Engineers to develop 3 different control units called Gardner, Germinator, and Pavilion. We are currently using WokWi for our design.

All the units communicate with MQTT

Gardner contains

  • Power supply for the board
  • Relays to provide on/off control for power supplies for lighting
  • Relay to control water into the reservoir
  • Relay to control water pump
  • Relay to control CO2
  • Connections to air controllers
  • WiFi to receive schedule
  • Bluetooth connections to sensors (heat/humidity/water level/CO2)
  • MQTT, Zigbee

Germinator contains

  • Power supply for the board
  • Relays to provide on/off control for power supplies for lighting
  • Relay to control water into the reservoir
  • Relays to control water delivery at each level
  • Relay to control the pump
  • Relay to control CO2
  • Connections to air controllers
  • WiFi to receive schedule
  • Bluetooth connections to sensors (heat/humidity/water level/CO2)
  • MQTT, Zigbee

Pavilion contains

  • HVAC interface controls
  • MQTT
  • BACnet

We have other roles open Full Stack Development, DB Architect, System Architect, IoT Engineering, Mechanical Design, Process Design, Food Safety, and Project Management)
 

We are looking for people 

  • with experience in SW/HW design - Robotics.
  • You will develop skills in Developer applications.
  • We have system wide standard which you will be responsible for following and adding ideas to.

It is not unusual for interns who diligently follow our job hunting recommendations find good jobs within 8 weeks.

This is real work with no cost to the student.
It's a win-win, our projects is completed and the students get relevant work experience for job interviews. 

You an see a detailed description of the project here which also includes basic training.

You can see a detailed list of the job roles here.

Intern Status

The internship does not constitute a contract of employment. The internship is for 8 weeks and is automatically be extended on mutual agreement for additional 8 weeks at a time.  It is the equivalent of an “employment at will” relationship. This means that you do not have a contract of employment for any particular duration. You are free to resign at any time for any reason.

Similarly, Local Grown Salads is free to terminate your internship at any time for any reason. Any statements or representation to the contrary, or that contradict any provision of this letter, are superseded by this offer letter.

There no commitment to a full-time position on completion of the internship implied.

Apply with a PDF resume and cover letter. Do Not Apply with a docx resume or cover letter they are NEVER opened.

Send you resume to OPT-Intern-Application@localgrownfoods.ca job role in the subject line gets first prioriy for the role. We will contact you when we are ready to interview you. Multiple followups gets your resume deleted from the queue.

Working with Universities and Colleges for course credit 
Over the years we have worked with many Universities and Colleges to provide course credits for students.

The most common are:

  • CPT Students
  • Capstone Classes
  • Work experience program

We have a standard process for our work. We track work that is assigned and performed with JIRA. So all the students can track what is expected of them and what they have accomplished.

Some of the Universities/Colleges have requested access and we provide them the ability to review what is being done.

As well, we are asked to rate the students two or three times during the term, which we do.

With ASU, the capstone actually operates over two terms.

We do not have the infrastructure to create course plans, however, we have plenty of material to allow the students to create a detailed curriculum.

For more details see our Core Knowledge Document here.