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Engineering Co-op

CompanyMetrea
LocationVictor
Work ModeOn Site
PostedJuly 25, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The Co-Op will help design, develop, and test embedded software for communications and RF sensing products using an Agile process. They will also coordinate their academic schedule and availability with their supervisor.
Internship Type
full time
Company Size
772
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Metrea, formerly Meta Aerospace, offers a deep stack of defense capabilities and services for our customers and partners, allowing them to anticipate, secure, and defend their interests in a rapidly changing problem space. We architect cutting-edge solutions across a wide variety of missions from ISR services, to multi-mission electromagnetic technologies, to simulations applications.
About the Role

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

The Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) develops and builds systems for communications and RF sensing. Within EM&C, RADLAB is our radar capability area. RADLAB is a small team building novel capabilities from the ground up, taking ideas from physics and math through simulation, prototype, and test.

Position Summary

Metrea Advanced Signals is looking for an engineering Co-Op to work with the team to learn what it takes to be successful in a professional engineering environment while making valuable contributions and aiding the team in achieving their objectives of developing cutting edge communications and Radio Frequency (RF) sensing products. The Co-Op will get an opportunity to work with our software and hardware team to develop embedded software for MAS products.

What You'll Do

  • Help design, develop and test embedded software following an Agile development process
  • Communicate with supervisor about class schedule and availability, especially when needing to study for midterms, final exams, etc.

What You Bring

  • Python
  • C/C++
  • Linux

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

ITAR cleared

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea Advanced Signals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a co-op position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Work Environment

This job operates in an office setting 

Travel

None

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.

Key Skills
PythonC/C++LinuxEmbedded SoftwareAgile DevelopmentRF Sensing
Categories
EngineeringSoftwareTechnologyScience & Research