Internship: Embedded Software Engineering (Summer 2025) - Franksville, WI - Military Veterans
at Eaton
Do you want to gain enriching experiences and work side by side with experienced engineers to power your career? Apply to our Embedded 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 Embedded 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. Working alongside experienced engineers, you will perform engineering analyses, create designs, and develop unit tests – all contributing to the overall execution of New Product Development (NPD) projects and functional initiatives.
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:
• Work with hardware drivers and embedded applications, networking and related areas primarily using C, C++, and Python, as well as other programming languages.
• Collaborate with a global multi-discipline engineering teams (software, embedded software, hardware, power systems, systems, product and test) to deliver products and features for the Controls and Relays Group.
• Set aggressive goals, measures performance, and strive to go beyond what is expected.
• Effectively work and communicate within a global team environment.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
• Actively enrolled in or received a bachelor’s or master’s degree program in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, 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 role. 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 using C / C++, Python or other programming languages.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum concepts (or other iterative development methodology).
Caledonia, WI
At Eaton, we value many of the skills and competencies that you gained in your military career.
- Leadership
- Discipline
- Creativity
- Integrity
- Teamwork
These are our values too!
As we aspire to be a model of inclusion and diversity in our industry, we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique. We create an environment that fosters learning and teaching, allowing employees to reach their full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.
From the technology and machinery that surrounds us, to the critical services and infrastructure that we depend on every day—you’ll find one thing in common. It all relies on power. That’s why Eaton is dedicated to improving people’s lives and the environment with power management technologies that are more reliable, efficient, safe and sustainable. Because this is what matters.