Fire Alarm College Engineer Intern - Summer 2025

M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation's most recognizable mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 3,600 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean performs work throughout the United States and Europe, including integrated regional offices in Baltimore, MD; Charleston, SC; Atlanta, GA; Tampa, FL; Houston & Dallas, TX; Santa Clara, CA; Portland, OR; and Stuttgart, Germany.

M.C. Dean delivers multi-disciplinary systems engineering for electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life-safety, instrumentation and control, and command and control systems; and provides machine-to-machine communications, and physical and cybersecurity services to clients across six continents. We are trusted by Fortune 100 global enterprises, data centers and top defense, civilian, and intelligence agencies, to design, build, operate and maintain their most mission critical systems. Engineers who join M.C. Dean's technical team have the opportunity to actively innovate and apply their technical skills in a multitude of ways.

You have the opportunity to work on client sites and in our engineering solutioning labs, which serve as an extensive testing environment for our customers with virtual servers, hardware, software and equipment for remote testing of access control, intrusion detection, facial recognition, and environmental data analysis. M.C. Dean is also an innovator in the design and delivery of large-scale modular systems led out of the company's manufacturing center in Virginia.

Engineers have the opportunity to develop their career paths as desired to develop a broad and highly advanced set of technical skills across the company's integrated business units.

This job posting is focused on the identification of engineering interns interested in a fast-paced, team-oriented and collaborative workplace environment with specific applications in Power, Mechanical, Security, Systems and Software. The work that shapes you, also shapes the world. We are seeking new candidates driven to excellence and inspired to build a smarter, more sustainable, and connected future.

• Electrical Engineering / Power Engineering - Specific technology disciplines include electrical power systems and alternative power, including microgrid applications, automation & protection controls, critical power, and applications software related to the design and implementation of power systems thereof.
• Mechanical Engineering - Specific technology disciplines include mission-critical facility operations & energy optimization; BIM; energy management automation & controls; and efficiency dashboarding and reporting applications software.
• Security Engineering - Specific technology disciplines include advanced physical security systems to include CCTV; access control & intrusion detection; command & control center design; operations and optimization; information assurance/cyber security applications software configuration; and development for large enterprise applications.
• Systems Engineering - Specific technology disciplines include industrial automation & controls; transit systems; smart city and other large-scale infrastructure enterprise IoT solutions; integrated power automation & controls; and energy efficiency & optimization applications software.
• Software Engineering - Specific technology disciplines include modular design and project execution software systems development; BIM and other forms of advanced modeling and simulation; engineering & simulation test lab endeavors; passive cabling and active component communication systems design; implementation and administration; and other project-specific applications software.

Currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Science degree program in engineering or similar discipline.

Abilities:

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time
• Sitting for extended periods of time. Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.