IC Design Verification Engineer Intern - Summer 2026

The Ottawa Technology Center is a world-class team responsible for hardware and software development of some of the coolest embedded processing and networking products going into homes, cars and businesses around the world. The hardware team is looking to hire a highly motivated design verification engineer with an insatiable desire to win and make an impact. We offer breakthrough thinking, engineering expertise, and sustained market leadership at the forefront of embedded processing. Joining this team will get you in contact with the cutting-edge platforms that NXP delivers to the major players in the telecommunication, industrial and automotive market: multiple processing cores and high performance networking accelerators integrated on the same silicon chip.

In this role, you will contribute to the verification of a leading edge hardware design/system. 

You will:

• Develop solutions for the verification of the hardware System On Chip (SoC) products
• Develop, execute and debug a wide range of functional and system tests and checks to validate hardware design
• Work with IC Design, Software and System engineers to develop test plans based on Design specification
• Contribute to the testbench specification and implementation

• Working towards a bachelor or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Software or Computer Engineering program
• Strong interest in hardware design and/or verification
• Focus on quality of results, with proven problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to communicate in English and work effectively within a team

The following skills are highly desirable:

• Student work experience in hardware design or verification environment
• Knowledge of digital design verification including test environment implementation and test plan development Knowledge of C, System Verilog and/or other verification languages and simulators
• Knowledge of constrained random verification
• L2 and L3 networking protocols implementation (e.g. Eth/IP/UDP)
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming
• Good knowledge of Unix/Linux, Perl

Job Location:

Onsite at our Kanata, Canada office

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