Hardware Engineering Intern

Hardware Engineering Intern — Apex Hardware Labs

San Jose, CA | May 2025 – Present

• Designed and simulated 3 analog sensor conditioning circuits using LTspice, achieving a 14% improvement in signal-to-noise ratio and reducing design iteration cycle time by 18%.
• Layouted a 4-layer high-speed digital PCB using Altium Designer, ensuring impedance matching on 5 critical signal buses and reducing board area by 22% compared to the previous design revision.
• Wrote firmware in C for STM32 microcontrollers, optimizing SPI communication drivers to reduce sensor polling latency by 25% and recovering 4KBs of static RAM for additional features.
• Performed thermal and power integrity testing on 8 prototype boards, identifying a major power rail drop and implementing a bypass capacitor network that reduced voltage ripple by 30%.

Electronics Lab Assistant — West Coast University Engineering Lab

San Jose, CA | September 2024 – May 2025

• Calibrated and operated digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators to troubleshoot 15 analog circuits, cutting debugging time for undergrad lab projects by 24%.
• Assisted in soldering and assembling 42 custom micro-controller development boards, maintaining a 98% yield rate and reducing manual wiring faults by 35% through enhanced QA checklists.
• Developed Python test automation scripts to log thermal data from chamber sensors, reducing manual measurement logging time by 40% and increasing data collection density by 10x.
• Reorganized lab component inventory containing 500+ parts and updated the online database, decreasing parts retrieval times by 32% and eliminating duplicate component orders.

PCB Layout, Schematic Capture, Analog Design, Circuit Simulation, Microcontrollers, C/C++, Python, Altium Designer, KiCad, LTspice, Lab Equipment, Oscilloscopes, Multimeters, Soldering, Signal Integrity, Embedded Systems, I2C/SPI, Hardware Debugging

Autonomous Solar Tracker Power Stage

Role: Lead Hardware Designer

Tools: Altium Designer, LTspice, STM32 MCU, C

Designed a custom buck-boost regulator circuit that increased solar panel energy extraction efficiency by 18% under variable light conditions.

IoT Environmental Sensor Hub

Role: Embedded Systems Engineer

Tools: KiCad, STM32, Python, I2C/SPI

Developed ultra-low-power sleep states for STM32 firmware, extending overall battery life from 3 months to 12 months (4x increase).

• IPC-A-610 Certified IPC Specialist (CIS) (2024)
• Altium Essentials Certification (2025)
• Associate Certified Electronics Technician (CETa) (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), Mandarin (Conversational)
• Affiliations: IEEE Student Member (IEEE Robotics & Automation Society)
• Availability: Immediate (willing to relocate for co-op or full-time roles)