AI & Chip Design Intern (Summer 2026)
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Job Location:
San Jose, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Cadence we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
AI & Chip Design Intern (Summer 2026)
As an intern you will join a dynamic team of software developers and researchminded engineers shaping the future of AIaccelerated chip design and verification. You will be part of the SVG (System Verification Group) whose charter is to develop stateoftheart EDA software and hardware platforms used for highperformance functional verification of advanced integrated circuits.
Our products include industryleading simulation (Xcelium) formal (Jasper) hardware acceleration (Palladium) FPGA prototyping (Protium) and embedded software bringup environments (Helium). Increasingly these nextgeneration verification systems incorporate AI automation and advanced datadriven workflows - and thats where you come in!
What Youll Work On
You will contribute to applied research and engineering projects that sit at the intersection of AI/ML systems and chip design. Possible project areas include:
- Building intelligent automation and LLM-based agents that assist chip designers and verification engineers
- Developing evaluation pipelines from large-scale verification data
- Contributing to R&D efforts that apply machine learning to simulation acceleration or designspace exploration
- Building Python and cloudnative tooling for verification workflows
- Exploring opensource software IDE plugins or developerproductivity tools for chipdesign engineers
- Building high-quality user interfaces for human-agent collaboration
Throughout the internship youll gain essential engineering skills including research exploration requirements definition project planning coding debugging testing and documentation. You will work closely with a dedicated mentor and present your work at the end of the summer. You will also get to interact with customers.
You will also participate in immersive training on Cadences core verification technologies and join fun events with other interns.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a BS or MS Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Solid understanding of data structures algorithms and software engineering fundamentals
- Demonstrated research or engineering background in one of the following:
- AI/ML (fundamental or applied)
- Chip design or computer architecture
- Systems and software engineering
- Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively
- Interest in developing AIenabled workflows for chip design or verification
Nice to Have
- Prior experience building LLM-powered agents for complex problems
- Familiarity with chipdesign concepts or verification (through coursework or projects)
- Exposure to cloud services distributed systems or containerized environments
- Experience at an earlystage startup or in fastmoving research environments
- Experience developing IDE extensions or plugins (e.g. VS Code)
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills
- Interest in learning both modern EDA technologies and cuttingedge applied AI
Were doing work that matters. Help us solve what others cant.
Required Experience:
Intern
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Public Relations
- Google Docs
- Data Collection
- MailChimp
- Microsoft Word
- Dermal Fillers
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Photoshop
- Writing Skills
About Company
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