Student Intern, Hardware Design

4 Month Opportunity

As a global technology leader, Celestica designs, engineers, and manufactures industry-leading products and services that drive customer success and market advancement. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, we bring together over 33,000 employees across more than 45 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. Working with the world’s leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica helps its customers achieve a competitive advantage. These products span key areas such as data centre technology, aerospace and defense, healthtech, and capital equipment.

Working at Celestica is more than a job. It’s about being part of something bigger and shaping the future with your work. You’ll take on exciting and challenging projects, get hands-on experience, collaborate with a global team, and learn from some of the greatest minds in the industry. And just as we aspire to imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers, we’re just as committed to delivering the best employee experience. 

Benefits for Students Include:

• Experience working for one of the largest Canadian global technology companies

• Possibility of a student casual contract position after completion of internship 

• Possibility of a full-time position after completion of degree 

• Access to Celestica’s development programs and projects

• Celestica's Time Off to Volunteer program – two paid days off to volunteer per year

• Fun intern activities including celebration events and networking

• Internal recognition programs and rewards for stellar performance

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity: Job experience at a large Canadian-based global company

• Innovation: We look to our employees to implement new ideas and improve the way we do things

• Collaboration: Students work as part of global teams, enabled by collaborative technology

• Sustainability: We uphold strong ethics, reduce our impact on the environment and empower employees to give back to the community with two paid days off per year to volunteer

• Development opportunities: including soft skills courses, innovation projects and mentorship

• Networking: Strategically build your professional network to advance your career and deepen relationships across your peers and colleagues.  

• Fun: Our interns have the opportunity to participate in fun activities including intern social events, Celestica’s charitable initiatives and our Spirit Week activities 

The Opportunity

What You Will Do & Learn:

• Hands-On Lab Work: Gain practical experience operating essential electrical test equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, and logic analyzers while mastering the hardware debugging process for AI servers.
• Test & Verification: Assist with hardware test execution, test script creation, data analysis, visualization, and documentation of test results.
• Automation Design: Learn test requirement definition and help design hardware test automation frameworks and solutions.
• Full Lifecycle Exposure: Understand the end-to-end product development cycle for high-performance data center AI/ML server architecture.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for passionate, eager-to-learn students ready to apply their academic foundation to real-world challenges.

• Education: Currently enrolled in an Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering degree program.
• Project & Lab Experience: Completion of relevant EE courses with practical lab work. We are highly interested in candidates who have tackled hands-on school projects involving developing and/or programming hardware.
• Programming & AI: Good working knowledge of scripting languages, particularly Python. Experience using AI tools for code generation and optimization is a major plus.
• Technical Knowledge: Solid understanding of basic circuit theory and the ability to read and understand engineering schematics.
• Tools: The ability to rapidly learn new hardware testing tools.
• Soft Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.  Strong time management, cross-functional collaboration, and communication skills.  Ability to manage ambiguity.

Value to You

We are as committed to delivering the best employee experience as we are to our customers. Our internship program is designed to build your skills, network, and career trajectory.

• Career Advancement: Access to soft-skills courses, innovation projects, and mentorship. There is also the potential for a full-time position upon graduation.
• Global Networking: Build professional relationships across a massive global company, enabled by collaborative technology and our thriving Austin team.
• Community Impact: Two paid days off per year to volunteer and give back to your community through Celestica's Time Off to Volunteer program.
• Vibrant Culture: Participate in fun intern activities, social events, charitable initiatives, Spirit Week, and internal recognition programs for stellar performance.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office with exposure to manufacturing environments.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc).
• Basic manufacturing system knowledge.

Salary

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

The hourly wage is determined by the years of study completed and is non-negotiable as per company policy.

Hourly Wage: $24-30 USD/hour

Additional Details

Area: Engineering

Start Date: May 2027

Location: Austin, TX

Vacancies: 1 position

Experience: No Formal Experience Required.

Education:  Currently enrolled in an Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering degree program.

To apply, please visit www.celestica.com. Please provide a copy of your transcript with your application. Please include your student email address in your application.