FY27 Intern - Automotive Engineering Internship - Canada (16 months)

Location: Markham, Ontario, Canada Department: Interim Engineering Intern - SW

Company:Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:Interns Group, Interns Group > Interim Engineering Intern - SW

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.

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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 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with keen attention to detail

Coursework in operating systems and programming, working knowledge with systems level languages like C, 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, 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

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 userspa