Summer Internship - Electronic Engineer

Global Innovation and Technology Centre, Back Lane, Melbourn, Hertfordshire, SG8 6DP
, United Kingdom, Melbourn SG8 6DP
, GB

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

• Joining us as an intern is the next step in starting your career. As you begin your career and turn your technical knowledge into real-world impact, we want you to be bold, stay curious and dive into the opportunities we have to offer.
• If you want a balance of technology, commercial and real-world applications, coupled with an opportunity to work across a broad range of industry sectors, then this might be what you have been looking for.
• At PA Consulting we have a unique combination of industry expertise and engineering capability. At our dedicated Global Innovation Technology Centre in Cambridge UK , we develop award-winning products and manufacturing processes, helping clients understand and use technology more effectively.
• Our electronic engineers have expertise in creating electronic systems and are constantly learning about their craft and broadening their knowledge, working alongside colleagues who all have a passion for using what they know, every day. We work across the development process, from design, simulation and prototyping through, test and transfer to volume manufacture. Our consultants bring experience from across industry and consultancy to ensure the quality and value of our client deliverables.

What you can expect

We work with our clients throughout the complete product lifecycle

Some of the projects our recent electronic engineering summer interns have worked in small, multidisciplinary teams to achieve:

• Investigating the use of conductive ink stretch sensors to aid rehabilitation, including producing and characterising the material, and designing a PCB for the sensor electronics and microcontroller
• Producing an metasurface antenna combining cutting-edge RF research with mechanical structures inspired by origami
• Producing and driving liquid capsules in saline solutions with a custom magnetics based control system
• Investigating novel antenna technology using plasma and developing lab-scale demonstrators
• Utilising Edge AI to develop a compression algorithm for low power audio transmission from remote sensing platforms

Assessment process

First Stage Assessments:

• Application form
• Online Assessments
• Business Review

Final Stage Assessments:

• In Person Assessment Centre with Technical Assessments

Adjustments or accommodations
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on

This role is open to undergraduates in their penultimate year of university. If you intend to return to university after the internship to complete an MSc, you will also be eligible for this position.

• Qualification:
  Undergraduate degree — studying towards, or completed an accredited degree in Electronic Engineering (or related subject, e.g. Physics,…