Software Engineering Internship - Summer 2027

About the role

At Qualcomm, we relentlessly innovate 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.

As a Qualcomm Software Engineering Intern, you’ll have the opportunity to push the boundaries of what exists and help establish the new standards for tomorrow. You will innovate as an equal contributor on teams of world-class engineers to develop, implement, and maintain software for the most complex wireless devices in the industry today. You will leverage your computer science or engineering degree to make an immediate impact on the software development life cycle of one of Qualcomm’s numerous software technologies.

Internship opportunities may be available in the following locations, depending on team and project needs: Austin, Boulder, Boxborough, Bridgewater, Chandler, Irvine, New York City, Louisville, Raleigh, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Seattle.

Responsibilities

• Push the boundaries of what exists and help establish new standards for tomorrow.
• Innovate as an equal contributor on teams of world-class engineers.
• Develop, implement, and maintain software for the most complex wireless devices.
• Leverage your computer science or engineering degree to make an immediate impact on the software development life cycle.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s 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 November 2027 or later.
• 1+ years of academic experience with programming languages such as C, C++, or Python.

Qualifications

• Candidates actively pursuing a degree with an anticipated graduation between November 2027 and June 2028.
• Extensive programming in C/C++.
• Object-oriented software design and development.
• Distributed systems and