4 days ago
Markham, CanadaIntern
Base Salary
$55k - $103k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, debug, and maintain low-level automotive software, drivers, firmware, middleware, hardware abstraction layers, and operating-system utilities.
- Support audio, camera, computer vision, display, graphics, virtualization, and video engineering projects across embedded and automotive platforms.
- Create test applications, automation scripts, validation tools, and CI/CD pipelines for development, testing, and regression workflows.
- Analyze logs and traces, troubleshoot failures, investigate performance issues, and document setup procedures and reproducible test cases.
- Collaborate with kernel, platform, multimedia, and other engineering teams through code reviews and technical discussions.
Requirements
- Be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Have at least one year of academic experience with programming languages such as C, C++, or Python.
- Have coursework in operating systems and programming, working knowledge of C or C++, and experience developing and debugging embedded systems.
- Have familiarity with Linux-based operating systems and strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Preferred qualifications include exposure to real-time operating systems, concurrency, systems-level projects, UART/I2C/SPI protocols, Python scripting, and CI/CD workflows.
Benefits
- 16-month internship in Markham, Canada, available from May or June 2027 through August or September 2028, for candidates graduating November 2028 or later.
- Mentorship, manager support, access to Qualcomm’s employee community, professional development workshops, social events, cross-functional speaker sessions, and an executive speaker series.
- Competitive hourly pay, accrued vacation time, and a housing stipend for the internship duration.
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.