FY27 Automotive Engineering Intern – Canada (16 months)

About the role

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 5G's potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age—and this is where you come in.

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.

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 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 Markham, Canada!

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Role Overview

Be part of the team that is developing the next generation automobile. Your work could help enable the next generation dashboard, active noise suppression, birds-eye-view surround-view camera system, drive you to work with our ADAS platform, or even save your own life with one of our many safety features in the next car you buy. Work with the leading-edge Snapdragon Automotive systems that supply most of the major car makers around the globe. Join our team in the Qualcomm Markham location and help change what your next car will be.

This job posting is for a variety of roles under the Automotive group. The following is a breakdown of the individual hiring teams:

• Audio
  • Contribute to development, debugging, and maintenance of audio middleware services, hardware abstraction layer, and userspace/kernel drivers across various OS (Android, Linux, QNX).
  • Contribute to development, debugging, and maintenance of audio processing modules and BSP code on the DSP.
  • Build, debug, and maintain CI/CD and test automation pipelines, and related infrastructure for audio team.
• Camera
  • Bring up and implement sensor drivers.
  • Work with firmware-level software for supporting image processing hardware.
  • Create OS-level utilities to aid in debugging and performance improvements.
• Computer Vision
  • Work on the EVA hardware drivers and perform testing on various targets and OS (Linux, QNX).
  • Maintain the equipment in the lab and prepare targets for testing using Axiom and Jenkins.
  • Engage in testing and evaluation of conventional and DL-based CV algorithms on X86 and target.
  • Build, debug, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for CV team.
• Display
  • Work on the display driver software in different operating systems (Linux, Zephyr, QNX, Android).
  • Implement the display driver in userspace and/or kernel space.
  • Debug and fix issues in the software.
• Graphics
  • Contribute to the development of graphics drivers and low-level software for automotive platforms.
  • Gain hands-on experience with graphics APIs (i.e. OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL), GPU driver development, and embedded systems.
  • Build graphics applications, tools, and scripts to support development, testing, validation, and continuous integration.
• HAB
  • Work with virtualization concepts, hypervisors, or tools such as KVM, QEMU, or crosvm.
  • Investigate issues involving memory sharing, interrupts, device discovery, and I/O.
  • Develop scripts and test applications to automate functional validation and regression testing.
  • Analyze logs and traces to troubleshoot failures and identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Document setup procedures, findings, and reproducible test cases.
  • Collaborate with kernel, platform, and multimedia engineers through code reviews and technical discussions.
• Video
  • Contribute to development, debugging, and maintenance of video driver on Linux, QNX, and Android.
  • Contribute to development, debugging, and maintenance of on- and off-target tests for video drivers.
  • Build, debug, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and related infrastructure for video team.

Prior professional experience with specific technologies is good to have but not required. Relevant coursework, personal projects, research, and open-source contributions that show experience in C/C++ and low-level software fundamentals are welcome, and candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don’t meet all criteria.

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.

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Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with keen attention to detail.
• Coursework in operating systems and programming, and working knowledge of systems-level languages like C and C++.
• Experience developing and debugging embedded systems through projects or past experiences.
• Familiarity working with Linux-based operating systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to real-time operating systems.
• Fundamental knowledge and/or coursework in concurrency.
• Previous systems-level experience or projects.
• Experience with embedded protocols like UART, I2C, and SPI.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python and CI/CD 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 or June 2027 - August or September 2028.
• Expected graduation date of November 2028 or later.
• 1+ years of academic experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Python, etc.

Benefits

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.

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.