Submitted by Meghan Megowan on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 10:38

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Institution: 
Portland State University
Mentor: 
Andrew Greenberg
Internship Location: 
Virtual
Internship Term: 
Spring 2024
Full time/Part Time: 
Part-Time
Status: 
Closed
Academic Majors Sought: 
Computer science, computer engineering, Physics, or Math
Academic Level Sought: 
Undergraduate - Any
Introduction: 

"The Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) is an open source and extremely interdisciplinary student group and lab in the Portland State University Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. Our teams use systems engineering best practices to build sophisticated amateur rockets, liquid fuel engines, and nanosatellites. For more information see https://www.pdxaerospace.org/ and https://www.oresat.org/. OreSat is a fully open source 1U - 3U CubeSat system meant to be built, modified, and flown by student teams. OreSat has everything you would expect from a CubeSat system: a 1 - 3U structure, multi-band deployable antenna, solar array, battery pack, on-board computer, radio system, star tracker, reaction wheels, magnetorquers, GPS receiver, and capability for a high speed S band radio system. The first OreSat satellite, OreSat0, is currently operational in low earth orbit. Two other OreSat missions are planned for October 2023 and early 2024."

Position Description: 

Software development position to work on OreSat software systems, including onboard embedded Linux cards, Raspberry pi-based test equipment, and ground station software.

Position Responsibilities: 

You will work on OreSat software projects, written mostly in Python and running on Linux. Projects include test equipment, onboard Python-based systems on Oresat, and OreSat server infrastructure.

Required/Preferred Qualifications: 

Computer science, computer engineering, physics, or math major sophomore or higher, familiarty with Python and open source software development on Linux.

Cover Letter Dropbox: 
https://oregonstate.app.box.com/f/c4c96c9e7eca483fb262113231d4e73e