Intern Hardware Verification Engineer

Job Details:

Job Description:

This position requires candidates to upload a resume in English; you are welcome to upload multiple versions of your resume if you prefer but an English version of your resume will be required to be considered for this position.

We are seeking a highly motivated Intern Hardware Verification Engineer to join our engineering team and support the verification of next‑generation hardware designs. In this role, you will collaborate closely with experienced verification and design engineers to develop, execute, and debug verification environments, ensuring functional correctness, performance, and reliability of complex hardware components. This internship offers hands-on exposure to industry-standard verification methodologies, tools, and workflows, providing an excellent opportunity to strengthen your technical skills while contributing to real-world silicon development projects.

In this position, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Help develop automation in execution and debugging by using your SW skills for programming and scripting.
• Assists engineering in assessing process health and defect identification during the verification phase.
• Conduct engineering and detailed experimental testing to collect data or assist in research.
• Perform operational tests and fault isolation on systems and equipment.
• Working with Hardware validation engineers and Designers in lab activities.
• Reviewing the procedures and methodologies for the areas listed previously to improve efficiency and find better tools and innovative validation strategies. This candidate will lead an improvement project to enhance our documentation.
• Run test cases according to a defined test plan, reporting results to engineering teams.
• Assist engineers in further debugging failing devices to help find underlying Silicon or product bugs and set up and run particular experiments.
• Collaborate with other validation areas of Design, BIOS, System validation, and other different teams to support development and data collection and debug and/or analysis and/or documentation and/or reporting
• Apply analog and digital electronic knowledge to debug technical problems related to board design.

The ideal candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:

• Work independently with minimal supervision and demonstrate initiative to complete assigned tasks while quickly reporting results and challenges to customers.
• Work on multiple assigned tasks and projects and appropriately manage priorities.
• Written and verbal communication skills to communicate with internal customers.

As an Intern Hardware Verification Engineer, you will gain hands-on experience and practical knowledge in the following areas:

• Fundamentals of hardware verification methodologies, including functional verification concepts and coverage-driven verification.
• How to develop, execute, and debug testbenches to validate hardware designs at the IP, subsystem, or SoC level.
• Techniques for analyzing simulation results, identifying functional issues, and collaborating with design engineers to debug and resolve defects.
• Use of industry-standard EDA tools for simulation, waveform analysis, regression execution, and results tracking.
• Understanding of digital design concepts, including clocking, reset strategies, interfaces, protocols, and basic micro-architecture.
• Best practices for documentation, version control, and collaborative development in a professional engineering environment.
• Insight into the full silicon development lifecycle, from design and verification through tape-out and validation.
• Development of problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills while working in cross-functional engineering teams.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position.  Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and or schoolwork/classes/research.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electricity, Mechatronics, or computer engineering or a STEM related field.
• 3 months of experience in: • Lab equipment: oscilloscopes, probes, multimeters, programmers, etc. to analyze low and high-speed electronic signals.
• PC component architecture (CPU, motherboard, memory, storage, video, USB, networking, wireless) and how variations to each component affect overall PC functionality and performance.
• Proficient experience with Windows and Linux OS.

• Advance English level.
• Must have unrestricted, permanent right to work in Mexico (this role is not eligible for visa or immigration sponsorship).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Python and running tests and debug components from command line interfaces.
• Good board-level debug skills and analyze complex electronic circuits and systems.
• Keeping track of providing support to several programs simultaneously.

A candidate who accepts an offer of employment in Mexico is required to present their own personal identification information and numbers for the following: Mexican Security Number (NSS), Tax Identification Number (RFC) and CURP identification number.

Job Type:

Student / Intern

Shift:

Shift 1 (Mexico)

Primary Location:

Mexico, Guadalajara

Additional Locations:

Business group:

At the Data Center Group (DCG), we're committed to delivering exceptional products and delighting our customers. We offer both broad-market Xeon-based solutions and custom x86-based products, ensuring tailored innovation for diverse needs across general-purpose compute, web services, HPC, and AI-accelerated systems. Our charter encompasses defining business strategy and roadmaps, product management, developing ecosystems and business opportunities, delivering strong financial performance, and reinvigorating x86 leadership. Join us as we transform the data center segment through workload driven leadership products and close collaboration with our partners.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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