Electrical Engineering & Embedded Systems Intern

THE MISSION ITERRA is building the system of record for low-altitude airspace. Above 400 feet, every aircraft is tracked, logged, and attributable. Transponders, flight plans, radar, ATC. Below it, nothing. No transponder mandate an adversary obeys, no log, no attribution. Every headline ends the same way: nobody could say what was in that airspace. A record-keeper cannot be a participant in the fight it is recording. That is why we are passive, and it is not a limitation, it is the product. WHAT WE ARE BUILDING Passive, edge-native RF and electro-optical sensing that autonomously detects and classifies Group 1-3 UAS without relying on pre-loaded signature libraries. Fused on the device. No active emissions. No cloud dependency. Purpose-built for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments where legacy radar and library-dependent sensors fail. WHO WE ARE Small team. High trust. No bureaucracy. No tourists. Only builders. Field-tested, integrated with the command-and-control systems our customers already run, SDVOSB certified, and manufacturing on U.S. soil in Hatillo, Puerto Rico. WHAT YOU OWN Everything in the sensor runs on power you route and signals you keep clean. A Jetson, multiple software-defined radios, low-noise amplifiers, and cameras share one sealed box in Caribbean heat, on a mast, off a battery. You own the electrical side of that box, with your own dates, alongside the engineers. You report to the CTO. Power distribution and budget. From the source to every board: rails, regulation, protection, inrush, and a measured power budget per subsystem. You find out what the unit actually draws instead of trusting a datasheet. Field power. Battery sizing, charging, solar and vehicle power, runtime under real load and real temperature. A rig that dies four hours into an eight-hour collection is a failed rig. Bring-up and integration. Jetson carrier, SDR boards, LNAs, camera modules, GPS. You get them powered, talking, and stable, and you are the one who finds out why a board that worked yesterday does not today. Harnessing and connectors. RF cable runs, SMA, TNC and N-type selection, phase-matched lengths on direction-finding pairs, strain relief, service loops, and a harness a technician can replace in the field with gloves on. Noise and interference. Grounding, shielding, and layout discipline so the digital side does not desense the receiver. You measure the noise floor before and after, and you report both. Bench instrumentation. Oscilloscope, multimeter, power supply, electronic load, spectrum analyzer. Repeatable written procedure. If a result cannot be reproduced next month, it is not a result. Field support. You come to the range. You set up, you troubleshoot live, and you carry the gear. Documentation. Wiring diagrams, pinouts, power budgets, and a bring-up procedure someone else can follow without calling you. The harness you build is the harness that goes on the mast.…