FY27 Intern - Design Automation & Quality Assurance Engineering Intern - Canada (16 months)
Qualcomm1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaIntern
Responsibilities
- Develop software tools and scripts to improve semiconductor engineering workflows.
- Automate design, quality assurance, release qualification, reporting, and tracking processes.
- Support analog, mixed-signal, digital, and custom layout development teams.
- Develop databases, web applications, dashboards, and user interfaces.
- Test and validate engineering tools and implement automated testing or validation frameworks.
- Collaborate with design, methodology, custom layout, and quality assurance engineering teams.
- Explore AI-assisted development tools, AI agents, RAG systems, and LLM-based applications for productivity improvements.
Requirements
- Be currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Have at least one year of academic experience with programming languages such as C, C++, or Python.
- Be proficient in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python.
- Demonstrate problem-solving, analytical, attention-to-detail, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes Python, JavaScript, C++, Perl, shell scripting, Linux/Unix, command-line tools, semiconductor or VLSI flows, and EDA tools such as Cadence Virtuoso or Siemens Calibre.
- Preferred experience includes software tool development, automation frameworks, databases such as MongoDB or MySQL, web technologies such as React or Angular, Git or SVN, automated testing, and AI-assisted development tools.
Benefits
- 16-month internship available from May/June 2027 through August/September 2028 in Toronto or Ottawa, Canada.
- Mentorship, manager support, professional development workshops, social events, cross-functional speaker sessions, and an executive speaker series.
- Competitive pay, accrued vacation time, and a housing stipend for the duration of the internship.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.