Internship, Hardware Design Engineer, Silicon Development (Winter/Spring 2025)
Description For Internship, Hardware Design Engineer, Silicon Development (Winter/Spring 2025)
Tesla is seeking Hardware Design Engineering interns for Silicon Development for Winter/Spring 2025. This internship offers opportunities across multiple teams including DOJO/Autopilot Physical Design, DOJO System Hardware Design, Autopilot Silicon and Systems Validation, and Autopilot Silicon and System Design. Interns will contribute to critical projects, gaining experience in SOC implementation, high-speed board design, silicon and system validation, and firmware development. The role requires strong electrical engineering fundamentals, hardware-software concepts understanding, and skills in PCB design, scripting, and system-level debugging. This full-time, on-site internship (40 hours/week) is expected to start around January 2025 and continue through April 2025 or into Summer 2025. Locations include Palo Alto, CA and Austin, TX. Tesla offers a comprehensive benefits package and is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
Responsibilities For Internship, Hardware Design Engineer, Silicon Development (Winter/Spring 2025)
- Contribute to implementing SOCs and related IPs from synthesis through tapeout
- Enhance result quality and streamline workflows by developing designs in TCL, Perl, and/or Python
- Design SOC/Chipset components and peripherals (eMMC, flash, DDR, as well as interfaces such as I2C, UART, and SPI)
- Provide power projection of end-to-end use cases for future projects
- Create and execute test plans using basic programming
- Build validation test infrastructures for Pre and Post Silicon phases
- Participate in designing and productizing silicon chips, ASICs, and the overall system for Tesla Autopilot
- Write firmware and software drivers to communicate with the system
Requirements For Internship, Hardware Design Engineer, Silicon Development (Winter/Spring 2025)
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- Knowledge of PCB manufacturing technologies and DFM
- Understanding of system level aspects of low power and high-power design
- Familiarity with Embedded board bring-up
- Strong comfort in C, C++, Python, and/or Linux OS Scripting
- Understanding fundamentals of real-time operating system (RTOS) principles
- Experience in design, verification or validation disciplines, system/platform level debug and root cause isolation, methodology and tools
Benefits For Internship, Hardware Design Engineer, Silicon Development (Winter/Spring 2025)
- Medical insurance (Aetna PPO and HSA plans)
- Dental insurance (including orthodontic coverage)
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
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