Title:  Electrical Engineering Co-Op (Spring 2026) (Cincinnati, OH)

Job Title: Electrical Engineering Co-Op (Spring 2026)

Job Code: 24645

Job Location: Cincinnati, OH

Job Schedule: 4/10 M-Thur

Job Description:  

We are a company of innovators, game changers, and entrepreneurs. As a prime contractor, we provide a broad range of communication, electronic and sensor systems used on military and commercial platforms across the globe. We embrace innovative and progressive ideas to advance our products for military and commercial customers. The Defense Electronics Systems Group provides a broad range of aerospace systems, security and detection systems. Fuzing & Ordnance Systems (FOS) is the largest fuze manufacturer in the United States and is one of the most advanced manufacturers of fuzing and ordnance products in the world. We maintain an unwavering commitment to conducting business operations in a manner that provides and maintains safe and healthful working conditions, protects the environment, conserves natural resources, and complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.  As our business continues to grow, we are looking to add an Electrical Engineering Co-op to our Special Test Equipment Development Engineering Group.
 

As a member of the FOS team, your primary focus would be the development of Specialized Test Equipment used to test product through all phases of design and production.  You would also assist with presenting designs to internal and external customers for review, and addressing technical issues.  A solid understanding of circuit theory, components, firmware, software and troubleshooting skills will be developed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Focus on the design and development of specialized systems and special test equipment for electronic, electro-mechanical, and mechanical products.
• Extensive analog and digital circuit design, microcontrollers, data acquisition, filtering/conditioning, printed circuit design, measurement error analysis, and future system-level engineering.
• Utilization of CAE tools such as Altium and SPICE, and laboratory equipment such as DMMs, oscilloscopes, function generators, etc. used to perform circuit design, verification and troubleshooting.
• Working with or creating embedded firmware to control hardware.  Working with various serial communication protocols such as RS-232, RS-422, SPI, I2C, etc.

Qualifications: 

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering or related field  

Preferred Skills: 

• Some understanding of basic analog building blocks including differential amplifiers, op amps, LDOs, filters, and data converters
• Novice with basic digital building blocks including logic gates, flip flops, timers, and filters
• Little to no experience with standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, function generators, meters, etc.)
• Little to no experience with modeling and simulation utilities (SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink, etc.)
• Novice in creating Technical Documentation (Engineering Drawings, Calibration Procedures, Validation Procedures, Operating Instructions, etc.)
• Novice in writing code in C language.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications
• Currently pursuing a BSEE, BSCompE or BSEET degree + GPA > 3.0