1 day ago
Markham, CanadaIntern
Base Salary
$55k - $103k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, verify, debug, and resolve firmware issues related to CPU power, performance, and limits management.
- Support performance-management profiling and debug-tool development for next-generation SoCs.
- Debug issues across multiple SoC subsystems and drive problems through resolution.
- Bring up new hardware platforms and help troubleshoot platform, board, and software issues.
- Potentially support DevOps activities and learn related principles, practices, and tools.
Requirements
- Be currently studying toward a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Demonstrate excellent programming skills in C and Python.
- Have sound knowledge of embedded development and RTOS concepts.
- Understand computer architecture, microarchitecture, and basic microcontroller/microprocessor programming.
- Be able to debug, root-cause, and resolve firmware issues spanning multiple SoC subsystems.
- Be available for the full 16-month internship from May/June 2027 through August/September 2028 and expect to graduate in November 2028 or later.
- Preferred qualifications include academic experience with architecture or system specifications, SoC design, and microcontroller firmware development, plus experience with JTAG, GitLab, or Jira.
Benefits
- 16-month internship based in Markham, Canada, running from May/June 2027 through August/September 2028.
- Mentorship, manager support, access to the Qualcomm employee community, professional development workshops, social events, and speaker sessions.
- 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.