
Presales Systems Engineering - Summer 2027 Internship
Waltham, MAFull-timePosted 2w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Presales Systems Engineering intern works with Communication Systems Engineers to design radio communication solutions from concept through implementation. The role supports customer requirements gathering, solution design, technical proposals, and pre-sales support, with exposure to implementation planning and system acceptance. The internship is on-site, full-time, Monday through Friday, and is intended for students returning to school in Fall 2027.
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Company Overview At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview At Motorola Solutions, we are solving for safer every day. In our never-ending pursuit to help keep people safe everywhere, our Presale Engineering Team applies our Public Safety ecosystem of technologies focused on Critical Communications, Video Security, and the Command Center from ideation to creation, challenge to resolution. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property, and places. Our solutions enable the collaboration between public safety agencies and enterprises that’s critical for a proactive approach to safety and security.
The Presales Engineering Group is the technical lifeblood of the Sales Organization. Our engineers bring to life the innovative communications solutions that make a difference in the moments that matter. As the solutions architects, systems engineers have the technology and design responsibility for all sales support engagements nationwide. Job Description The Presales System Engineer (Internship) will get the opportunity to work closely with our Communication Systems Engineers, who design radio communication solutions, from the conceptual phases through to implementation that meet customer's requirements. They consult with the customer to determine their requirements to design the best solution to meet their needs. Senior Engineers support their colleagues to enhance both individual and group competencies, including mentoring junior system engineers. We expect our engineers to operate as professionals and take responsibility for their development including professional and technical skills needed for their success as an engineer.
Responsibilities:
- In cooperation with the sales, product development, and project management they develop technical strategies and generate proposals to customers presenting Motorola's solution.
- Provide coordination with the design and planning of the customer solutions using advanced technologies and provide technical support throughout the pre-sales phase of the project.
- Involves coverage and antenna site selection, frequency planning, interference analysis, design of system architecture, equipment selection, proposal generation, and presentations of proposed solutions to customer.
- Engaged in the implementation of these solutions as originally conceived.
- Take responsibility for all technical aspects of the assigned project from award until system acceptance.
- Involves implementation planning, system acceptance testing, coverage testing, and system staging.
- Work to ensure that the our sales professionals and customers are kept up to date on the latest technology offerings from Motorola Solutions and their relevance to customer needs.
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma required
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree with an expected graduation date on or after December 2027. Returning to school in the Fall of 2027.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.
- Excellent communications skills and the ability to present complex topics to non-technical audiences
- Self-motivated and able to maintain focus in a pressured environment
- Experience working with customers is desirable
- Experience/ Knowledge in radio systems, radio propagation, RF, wireless, broadband, microwave, and/or networking is desirable.
- Experience/ Knowledge of communications networks (MPLS, Ethernet, TCP/IP) is desirable
- Certifications through CCNA, CompTIA, and/ or Amateur Radio/ HAM is desirable
Location/Travel:
- Preferred candidates will live in Massachusetts
- Schedule: On-Site Full Time work, Mon - Fri
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Basic Requirements
- High School Diploma required
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree with an expected graduation date on or after December 2027. Returning to school in the Fall of 2027.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.
Travel Requirements Under 10% Relocation Provided None Position Type Intern EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,102 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Massachusetts median$132–220K/yr113 salary ranges
- US median$32–42/hr144 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 137 open Systems Engineering jobs in Massachusetts and 3,102 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- RTX Corporation36 open
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- Experience
- Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (2,466 postings).
- Education
- 1,042 of the 3,102 open Systems Engineering jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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