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

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department: Interim Engineering Intern - HW

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.

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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 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, Eng