Controls Engineering Intern, Summer 2027
About the role
Daikin offers a well-established 11-week summer internship program where students contribute to meaningful projects. We emphasize a culture of mentorship, training, and collaboration, encouraging interns to ask questions, challenge ideas, and think creatively. Interns gain valuable hands-on experience in a thriving industry with strong opportunities for growth and development. This role will perform requirement decomposition, firmware and hardware requirement specification, V&V planning and systems engineering for embedded systems for HVAC equipment for the world’s largest HVAC company based in Houston, TX. This role needs understanding of electro-mechanical systems. Control System Engineer will be responsible for assisting with the design and development of control system requirements for various engineering projects, in the HVAC domain, including functional requirements, performance specifications, and design constraints.
Responsibilities
- Develop system level requirement and verification plan for consumer appliances and Smart Home devices - Air Handler, Furnace, Thermostat, Smart Home devices, wired and wireless sensors, IoT Edge devices
- Analyze refrigeration system and develop control logic for HVAC systems
- Develop test plan/strategy for bench and lab testing of firmware and hardware
- Analyze system requirements and translate them into system design specifications
- Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to ensure seamless integration of system components
- Develop and maintain system documentation, including system architecture documents, requirements documents, and test plans
- Debug and troubleshoot system issues using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and debuggers
- Interface well with other teams to perform root cause analysis and develop solutions to production problems
Requirements
- Must not require sponsorship now or in the future
- Graduation Dates: December 2027 - May 2029
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Must be legally authorized for employment in the United States (and will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future)