Student Intern, Electrical Engineering

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Date: May 22, 2026

Location: San Jose, CA, US

Company: Celestica International LP

Req ID: 133771 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 
State/Province: California 
City:  San Jose 

Summer Internship

Celestica is a global electronics manufacturing services company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with over 28,000 employees across 40 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

 

Working with the world’s leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica delivers a full suite of services – from design and engineering, to manufacturing and supply chain management – to help its customers develop and manufacture products that are transforming the global economy. These products span key areas such as data centre technology, green energy, healthtech, and autonomous vehicles.

 

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 

About this opportunity:

  • Students will be exposed to and engaged with new product testing and verification, HW test automation frameworks design and automated test solutions development. 
  • Learn test requirement definition and test automation design, work with test equipment such as Oscilloscope, traffic generator and debug process in the lab.
  • Students will help with HW/SW test execution, test script creation, data analysis and visualization, and documenting test results.

 

Key highlights of the role:

  • Exposure to product test requirement definition, Test automation framework design and manual/Automated test execution for Hyperscale products.
  • Understanding of the full life cycle of product development in Networking, storage, servers, and  AI racks. 
  • Working closely with experienced System Test and Automation engineers and learning design practices.'

 

Preferred Skills:

  • Understand basics of Circuit theory
  • Good knowledge of scripting languages like Python 
  • Have taken some of the electrical engineering and Computer Science/Engineering courses and done lab work
  • Ability to learn new tools for software and hardware testing
  • Capability to effectively work cross-functionally
  • Excellent time management
  • Ability to work well in a team environment
  • Excellent analytical, report writing and problem solving skills
  • Read and understand engineering drawings
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Physical Demands

  • Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.

  • 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 (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required

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: $24.00-$27.00 USD/hr

Additional Details:

Area: Engineering
Start Date: June / July 2026
Location: San Jose, California
Vacancies: 1 
Experience: No formal experience is required
Education: Enrolled in a Electrical Engineering Program
 

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

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. 
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

 

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

 

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.


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Nearest Secondary Market: Palo Alto

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