Electrical Engineering Intern - Summer 2027
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through a class or personal project where you had to design or troubleshoot an electrical circuit from scratch.
What they are checking: whether they have hands-on experience beyond coursework and can explain their own design decisions
Tell me about a time you had to explain something technical to someone who wasn't an engineer.
What they are checking: clarity of written and verbal communication, which the posting calls out directly
Describe a group project where a teammate wasn't pulling their weight or the group disagreed on an approach. What did you do?
What they are checking: ability to work with cross-functional partners like manufacturing or design teams
Tell me about a time a project didn't go the way you planned and you had to adjust your schedule or approach.
What they are checking: realistic expectations about deadlines and flexibility in a fast-moving product development environment
What draws you to Generac specifically, and which of the potential focus areas, electrical systems, controls, embedded, or power electronics, interests you most and why?
What they are checking: genuine interest in the company's products and self-awareness about which track fits their skills
What would you do
Say you're testing a prototype generator control board and you get inconsistent results every third test run. What would you check first?
What they are checking: systematic debugging instinct rather than guessing
If your test data showed a part met safety requirements but failed a cost target, how would you think through that tradeoff?
What they are checking: awareness that engineering decisions balance cost, reliability, and safety, not just technical correctness
You're asked to update a bill of materials after a part gets swapped out. What steps would you take to make sure nothing gets missed?
What they are checking: attention to detail and understanding of documentation discipline in product development
About the work
If I handed you a schematic for a power distribution board you'd never seen before, how would you go about understanding it?
What they are checking: basic fluency in reading schematics and a logical approach to unfamiliar hardware
Tell me about a programming language you've used to talk to hardware, like a microcontroller or sensor, and what that project was doing.
What they are checking: real experience with embedded or hardware-facing code versus just classroom exposure
Have you used any CAD or CAE tools before, and what did you build or model with them?
What they are checking: comfort level with tools like SolidWorks or similar used for drawings and BOMs
Explain a basic electrical concept, like Ohm's law or how a capacitor behaves in a circuit, as if you were teaching it to someone who's never studied it.
What they are checking: whether fundamentals are genuinely understood, not just memorized
What does 'design for manufacturability' mean to you, even if you've only seen it in a textbook?
What they are checking: exposure to the idea that a design has to work on a production line, not just on paper
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