Field Instrumentation Design Internship

Internship Overview

You won't be running coffee orders or shuffling paperwork this summer. At Fervo, interns are handed something real: a project of your own, scoped with your manager on day one and yours to drive for the full 12 weeks. You'll work side-by-side with the teams building the next generation of geothermal energy, tackling problems that genuinely move the business forward. At the end of the summer, you'll present your work to our executive leadership team, department leads, and fellow interns, sharing real results with a real audience. This is a real seat at the table — and a real shot at what comes next.

Position Description

This role sits at the intersection of field instrumentation, embedded systems, industrial networking, and cybersecurity. The intern will help develop, evaluate, and improve temporary sensing and telemetry systems used across Fervo's geothermal operations while testing approaches to make remote data acquisition networks more reliable, scalable, and secure.

Over the 12-week internship, the intern will own a technical project focused on improving the architecture, cybersecurity, edge computing capabilities, or reliability of Fervo's temporary data acquisition systems. The work will combine hardware prototyping, networking, data analysis, targeted field deployments, and collaboration with Fervo's Data Acquisition, IT, and OT teams.

The internship will include a combination of office and lab-based engineering work and hands-on field assignments at Fervo operating sites. The amount and timing of field work may vary based on project scope and operational needs. Field assignments may include multi-day deployments supporting sensor installation, telemetry commissioning, troubleshooting, system validation, and data collection.