FY27 Intern - Design Verification Engineering Internship - Canada (16 months)

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Interns Group, Interns Group > Interim Engineering Intern - HW

Qualcomm Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

General Summary:

About Qualcomm 

Qualcomm relentlessly innovates transforming businesses, enriching lives and fortifying societies. Our solutions are pivotal in crafting a smarter, interconnected world. Building on our nearly 40-year history of era-defining technology breakthroughs, we deliver leading-edge AI, high performance, lower-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity. We’re proud to be the partner of choice to many of the world’s largest enterprises. Together with our ecosystem partners, we enable next-generation digital transformation. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress. 

Join Us in Shaping the Future 

At Qualcomm, we're committed to engineering human progress by delivering intelligent computing everywhere. We're passionate about harnessing the power of technology to transform industries and improve lives. Our early career programs offer limitless opportunities for growth, mentorship, and meaningful work. By joining our team, you'll be part of a community that's pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI, computing, and connectivity. With a global footprint spanning over 30 countries, you'll have the chance to collaborate with diverse talent and contribute to projects that are shaping the future of technology. 

Our early career programs are designed to attract inventive minds, offering a platform to contribute to our long-term innovation pipeline. You'll be part of a community that values collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning. Our programs provide real-world experience, technical skills, and professional development opportunities, empowering you to make a meaningful impact and achieve your career goals. Join us for our 2027 intern class in Toronto, Canada! 

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Role Overview 

As a Verification Engineering Intern, you’ll join a collaborative verification team and contribute to the end-to-end verification of DSP-based SoC chips for high-speed connectivity products. With guidance from experienced engineers, you’ll build your verification and debugging skills, learn about DSP, SoC, SerDes, Ethernet, and emerging technologies, and participate in the verification process from specifications and verification planning through pre-silicon verification and silicon validation.

Why You’ll Love Interning with Our Team

We invest in our interns and hope to build our future team with them. Your experience here includes:

• Impact: Contribute to real DSP/SoC features that are critical to our product roadmap.
• Mentorship: Learn alongside engineers who are invested in your development.
• Learning: Gain hands-on experience with SoC verification, digital hardware, DSP, and industry-standard verification tools and methodologies.
• Career growth: Strong performance may open opportunities to join the team after graduation.
• Team culture: Build connections and enjoy team events and activities.

What You'll Learn and Work On

• Own the end-to-end verification of DSP and SoC features, from understanding specifications and developing verification plans through test development, debug, coverage, and verification closure.
• Develop SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches, tests, assertions, checkers, and coverage to verify functionality, corner cases, and error scenarios.
• Develop an understanding of DSP architectures, SoC subsystems, SerDes, Ethernet, and high-speed connectivity technologies.
• Verify feature interactions across DSP blocks, digital logic, interfaces, firmware, and other SoC subsystems.
• Run simulations and debug complex failures using industry-standard simulation and waveform-debug tools such as Synopsys VCS and Verdi.
• Use functional and code coverage to identify verification gaps and drive features toward verification closure.
• Work closely with design, architecture, firmware, and validation engineers to understand requirements, debug issues, and verify features from an end-to-end system perspective.
• Improve verification flows and methodologies by identifying opportunities to make test development, simulation, regressions, debug, and results analysis more efficient.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, shell, C/C++, or other languages to improve verification productivity and workflows.
• Explore and apply AI/ML and AI-assisted technologies to improve verification workflows, including failure triage, log and specification analysis, test development, debug, and engineering productivity.
• Support post-silicon validation and lab activities, helping correlate pre-silicon verification results with silicon behavior.

Preferred Qualifications

• Studying Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Science, or a related field.
• Detail-oriented and able to plan tasks effectively.
• Great communication and technical writing skills.
• Strong desire to grow skills and gain DSP, SoC, and hardware verification knowledge.
• Experience with hardware description languages such as Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Familiarity with digital logic, computer architecture, DSP concepts, and SoC design.
• Familiarity with verification methodologies such as UVM, SystemVerilog Assertions, functional coverage, or constrained-random verification is a plus.
• Familiarity with industry-standard simulation and debug tools such as Synopsys VCS and Verdi is a plus.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, shell, C, or C++.
• Interest in using AI/ML, automation, and new technologies to improve engineering and verification workflows.
  

Education Requirements:

• In study towards a bachelor’s degree in one of the following: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science, Computer Science, or related field
• For 16-month internships: must be available May/June 2027 - August/September 2028
• Expected graduation date of November 2028 or later.
• 1+ years of academic experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Python, etc

Qualcomm’s Internship Program 

Our interns join world-class teams to help define and build what is next for mobility and the world. You’ll be paired with a mentor with visibility to your project and team, receive support from your manager, and have access to the entire Qualcomm employee community to ensure your success. To round out your internship, we host professional development workshops, social events, cross-functional speaker sessions, and an executive speaker series. In addition to competitive hourly pay and accrued vacation time, you will receive housing stipend to accommodate for the duration of your internship. 

Application Process 

We will review resumes on an ongoing basis, and a recruiter may reach out to you. Advancing candidates may be invited to complete a timed HackerRank challenge to evaluate their technical skill set. 

Export Control Notice 

This role may require an export license for candidates with citizenship in certain countries (see current country list below – subject to change). Qualcomm, like other companies, is experiencing significant delays in the export license process. Please be advised that if an export license is required, you may not be able to start work with Qualcomm until the license is granted, which may impact your ability to participate in the internship.

Countries requiring export: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, Cuba, Georgia, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Macau, Moldova, Mongolia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$54,600.00 - $103,350.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.