Research Electronics Engineer, Physicist, or Mathematician Graduate Internship

This announcement is for a graduate internship.

NRL is located in Washington D.C. and offers its civilian employees a challenging and exciting career in the federal government with flexible work schedules, competitive salaries and world-class research facilities with state-of-the-art equipment. Apply your talents in a creative, hands-on environment, with outstanding opportunities for educational and career advancement. Work with world-renowned scientists and engineers and forge your own path to success.

The mission of the NRL Systems Directorate is to apply the tools of basic research, concept exploration, and engineering development to expand operational capabilities and to provide materiel support to Naval and Marine Corps missions. Emphasis is placed on creating and exploiting new knowledge in advanced and emerging technologies, devices, systems, and methods and techniques that enable superior warfighting capabilities, avoid technological surprise, and deny these capabilities to adversaries.

The Directorate is composed over 550 staff members in four Research Divisions: Radar, Information Technology, Optical Science, and Tactical Electronic Warfare. 

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New developments in the Systems Directorate require Engineers, Physicists, and Mathematicians with critical knowledge and skills. Specialty areas include:

•  RF and Optical systems engineering

•  Electromagnetics

•  Antennas and adaptive beamforming

•  Microwave and mm-wave techniques

•  Digital receivers and exciters

•  Statistical and adaptive signal processing

•  Applications of AI/ML

•  Detection of signals in noise, clutter, and interference

•  Real-time software and firmware (FPGA) design and development

•  Modeling and simulation

•  Transmitters and solid-state technology

•  Advanced optical materials

•  Photonic components and systems

•  Fiber-based sensor systems

•  Novel imaging systems and architectures