Design Verification Graduate Intern 2027

At Intel, the Design Verification Engineer Graduate Intern role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the functional verification of silicon designs, ensuring they meet specifications and performance targets. In this role, you will engage in hands-on tasks such as developing verification plans, creating test benches, and contributing to the verification environment to ensure thorough architecture coverage. Your efforts will play a key part in uncovering design issues and collaborating on solutions, enhancing both your technical expertise and Intel's innovative products.

Business group
This position is part of Intel's Data Center Group (DCG), a dynamic organization dedicated to transforming how data is processed, stored, and analyzed across global industries. DCG drives innovation in server, cloud, and AI technologies, enabling Intel to deliver powerful, scalable solutions that support the future of computing. As part of this group, you will contribute to groundbreaking projects and make an impact on Intel's leading-edge technologies.

Key Responsibilities
- Support the development of verification plans, test benches, and verification environments to ensure design architecture coverage.
- Collaborate with architecture and design teams to verify functional correctness, implementation efficiency, and performance optimization.
- Assist with emulation and simulation tasks to validate designs, analyze power and performance metrics, and uncover bugs.
- Contribute to root cause analysis and debug efforts for design issues, supporting corrective measures and improvements.
- Learn and apply industry best practices in functional silicon design verification while exploring career development opportunities in a collaborative team environment.

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum qualifications and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Experience listed below would be obtained through a combination of your schoolwork, classes, research, relevant previous job, and/or internship experiences.  

Minimum Qualifications
- Must be pursuing a Masters or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 0-1 years of hands-on experience in design verification gained through internships, academic projects, coursework.
- Understanding of logic design, computer architecture, and verification methodologies.
- Knowledge in industry-standard tools for simulation, emulation, or debugging processes.
- Proficiency in hardware description languages such as Verilog or VHDL.
- Experience with scripting languages or programming (e.g., Python, C/C++).

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