Multimedia Engineering Internship – Summer 2027
Qualcomm
- Location
- San Diego, California, United States of America; Santa Clara, California, United States of America
- Employment
- Internship
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Intern
- H-1B history
- 22 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Sep 18, 2026
Skills
About this role
Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area: Interns Group, Interns Group > Interim Engineering Intern - Systems General Summary: 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 U.S. 2027 summer intern class ! Maximize Your Opportunities: Our internship hiring model routes candidates from this application into multiple project specific roles. Your "Profile Visibility" choice will guide how we manage your data across our systems. To be considered for the full breadth of internship opportunities, select the option to use your profile data for "Any Roles Globally". If you choose to limit your data to "Only The Role I'm Applying For", it will restrict the opportunity for you to be considered across matching internship opportunities. You can update your profile visibility preferences at any time through the Candidate Home Portal. Steps: Log Into Your Eightfold Candidate Home Account Hover Over The "Profile" Dropdown Open Settings Edit "Profile Visibility" Role Overview As a Qualcomm Multimedia Engineering Intern , you’ll work on best-in-class technologies including camera, video encoding/decoding, audio, speech, GPU, modem, CPU, application processor, multimedia engines, and computer vision. These technologies are at the heart of billions of Snapdragon devices across the globe. The team is responsible for system-level architecture, analysis, budgeting, and optimization of multimedia use cases to achieve lowest power and best performance. We are looking for students with an educational background and/or experience in system-level architecture and HW/SW co-design. Your work will have the potential to shape the most power- and performance-efficient devices in the hands of millions of Snapdragon users. This internship supports the Multimedia Engineering track . Based on your resume you will be aligned to projects within this track.
Minimum Qualifications
Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. degree program in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field Must be available for 11–14 weeks during Summer 2027 (May–September) Expected graduation date of Nove mber 2027 or later 1+ years of academic experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Python Preferred Qualifications Currently