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Hardware

Gain hands-on experience across everything from systems architecture to schematics. You’ll spend 8 weeks working on the kind of innovative projects you don’t find anywhere else. Up for the challenge? Discover first-hand what it takes to make it in our Hardware team.

Hardware

Start date: 30th June 2025

£30,000 per annum pro rata |8 weeks

About this programme

Want to do the best work of your life? Do you want to help invent the tech your friends and family use every day? Our products including Sky Q, Sky Glass and broadband routers are in more than one in every two homes in the UK, and you are sure to have used them.

Join our Hardware intern programme and you’ll spend 8 weeks working on the kind of exciting innovative projects you just don’t find anywhere else. Your main focus will be to support the lead engineers of the project or research teams.

You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to research projects which could influence the direction of future product design and technologies used in our products. Collaborate with different teams, all while discovering first-hand how we bring millions of people the entertainment they know and love.

No matter what you shine at you’ll be immersed in a diverse team of engineers helping you focus on what you do best whilst contributing to deliver new and exciting products. Impress us, and we may well offer you a full-time position once you graduate.

What you’ll be doing

  • Learning the Sky Business, within that, learning what we do and how we do it at Sky Labs Brentwood & Aalborg, Denmark. Learn it so you can make it better.
  • Electronic circuit design, schematic layout and PCB design.
  • Hardware and software bring up on new designs, followed by test and qualification using the latest instrumentation available in industry.
  • Software and driver development for test automation and new product design bring-up.
  • Working with the latest communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee with an opportunity to delve into the world of RF electronics.
  • Learning to support mass production manufacture and design of production line test-automation.

What we’re looking for

There’s two types of requirements for this programme.

Education: You’re in the penultimate year of your degree. The degree can be in any engineering or related field.

Other skills you may have include:

  • A passion for technology
  • Staying up to date with the latest technology developments
  • A can-do attitude and the desire to contribute into this very dynamic and fast moving market sector
  • Effective collaboration
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Right to Work: You’re required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK by the start date of the programme. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this programme.

Status

Applications are now open. The submission deadline is 1st December 2024 (Please be aware that our deadline may close earlier than expected due to high volumes but will close no earlier than 27th October 2024).

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Meet Megan

Engineering Process Manager

"During the hardware internship scheme, you’ll spend 8 weeks working on exciting innovative projects; supporting lead engineers on projects and research tasks. You will spend time contributing through design work, hardware bring up, test automations, design verification testing plus loads more!"

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