Do you want to gain enriching experiences and work side by side with experienced engineers to power your career? Apply to our Software Engineering Internship!
Over the course of this twelve-week paid internship based at the Franksville, WI site (about 20 miles south of Milwaukee), you will gain a firm grasp of our core engineering competencies and a holistic view of our technology-driven solutions that serve our wide range of customers.
The salary for this role ranges from $22.15 - $37.50 per hour (depending on your year in school).
Your career matters – and we’re here to make it work. Are you ready?
What you’ll do:
The Software Engineering Intern is an integral part of multi-disciplined new product engineering team at Eaton’s Thomas A. Edison Technical Center in Franksville, WI. In this role, you will assist in the development of interface software for high performance, real-time controls and protective relays used for smart grid applications in the electrical power distribution industry.
Our engineering teams are passionate about designing products and services that are more efficient, reliable, safe, and sustainable. With five Eaton facilities and more than 1500 employees located in Wisconsin, Eaton’s local footprint enables our employees with state-of-the-art laboratories and access to manufacturing that allows us to deliver robust solutions to our utility, commercial and industrial customers.
In this role you will:
• Implement features to configure, monitor, and update power system intelligent electronic devices, including advanced UX design, IDE development, graphical data representation and display, communication protocols, cybersecurity, and other relay, control and monitoring functions using .NET and C#.
• Implement designs based on product and interface requirements with guidance from lead software engineers.
• Work with functional managers, systems engineers, and lead software engineers to distill product/system requirements/use cases to software stories, developing module and system level code, and unit tests.
• Participate in tasks related to new product development including planning, task/story estimation, programming, unit testing, peer review, integration and release.
• Participate in the analysis and specification of software subsystems.
• Implement tests in support of developer testing activities and integration with Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
Required Qualifications:
• Actively enrolled in or received a bachelor’s or master’s degree program in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science at an accredited institution with a graduation date no earlier than December 2025.
• Minimum GPA of 2.8 or above.
• Able to work in the United States on an ongoing basis without company sponsorship.
• No relocation is offered for this position. Candidates must reside within 50 miles of the Franksville, WI site.
Preferred Qualifications
• Prior internship or co-op experience.
• Junior or higher standing.
• Minimum GPA of 3.2 or above.
• Experience developing .NET, C# based applications.
• Familiarity with developing UX with Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML, and Workflow.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum concepts (or other iterative development methodology).
• Familiarity with using SDLC management tools in a team environment.