Intern, Systems Architect at Crystal Group in Hiawatha, IA

Summary: Crystal Group is a 100% employee-owned company that designs and builds rugged tech solutions for extreme environments. The Systems Architect intern will assist in selecting key electronics technologies and serve as a liaison between customers and the engineering department to ensure successful product development. Responsibilities: - Clearly document the requirements from the customer and help manage a successful handoff to the engineering department to execute the product development - Advocate for the customer throughout the preliminary and critical design reviews associated with their product developments - Select technologies that not only have excellent performance and long life but also can be ruggedized for the defense and industrial market segment of our business - Leads the front end Systems Engineering activity in requirements capture interpretation and clarification, system architecture proposal, benchmark testing, and solution costing - Create and maintain the requirements capture tool that documents the proposed offering, captures the costs including non-recurring engineering and testing, and documents the initial system build configuration - Create proposals to customers, presentations, and technical discussions with clients - Key resource to the Business Development and Program Management Teams, the Engineering and Executive Management teams during normal operations - Internal customer advocate and works directly with the project engineering team to successfully complete the project Required Qualifications: - Must be a US Person (US Citizen, person granted US Permanent Resident Card or any individual who is granted status as a 'protected person') - Pursuing a bachelor's degree in engineering or related field - Working knowledge in computer hardware and system integration - Clear understanding of how to develop a computer server, integrate related technologies, and options to maximize utility by a customer - Business trends as well as the technology trends in the industry to predict the optimal pallet of CPU and supporting chipsets, combined with boards necessary to provide Crystal Group customers with high performance computing platforms having an availability of 3 to 5 years - Industrial standards and/or military standards - Written and verbal communication needed to promote excellent service to customers and coworkers - Strong Microsoft Office capabilities (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) - Manage multiple tasks at once, as well as prioritize them in order to hit deadlines - Work with all levels of the organization - Travel to customer sites and have a flexible work schedule - Demonstrated ability to operate lab equipment Preferred Qualifications: - 2+ years of engineering experience with computer hardware - Familiarity with industrial and/or military environmental standards Required Skills: Computer hardware, System integration, Computer server development, Technology trend analysis, CPU, chipset selection, Industrial standards, Military standards, Microsoft Office, Lab equipment operation