Internships in Santa Clara, California, United States

Applied Materials’ Tax team builds compliance and planning solutions for global operations. The intern researches and calculates sales, property, federal, state, and international transfer pricing duties, supporting audits and projects.

Applied Materials’ Process Engineering team builds cutting‑edge semiconductor and display equipment. As an intern you’ll experiment with advanced process technologies, collaborate with R&D scientists, and help optimize manufacturing workflows.

Intel seeks motivated individuals to join its design engineering team as a Physical Design Engineering Graduate Intern. The role focuses on developing workflows to reduce human effort, building data analysis capabilities, and designing graph-based systems for dynamic decision making.

Develop and apply machine learning and optimization techniques for AI‑driven recipe and hardware optimization in semiconductor process applications. Build Python workflows, analyze data, and collaborate with engineers to translate engineering problems into data‑driven models.

Applied Materials seeks a Summer Intern in Santa Clara, CA to support engineering teams in materials science and semiconductor equipment. Interns will collaborate on product development, data analysis, and process optimization, gaining exposure to AI, IoT, and advanced display technologies.

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions for semiconductor and display chips. The Technology Market Research Intern – Strategy and Operations supports market analysis, competitive intelligence, and strategy development for the company's technology portfolio.

Data Science and Analytics Undergraduate Intern at Intel. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, engineers to collect, clean, analyze large datasets, build models, dashboards, visualizations, support data-driven decisions, automate with Python and SQL, apply statistical tools, explore emerging technologies.

SiFive, a pioneer in RISC‑V technology, seeks a CPU Design Intern to join the Out‑of‑Order Core/Cache Design team in Santa Clara. The role focuses on developing RTL for flagship RISC‑V cores using Chisel, conducting feasibility experiments, power analysis, performance enhancements, and logic module improvements.

Graduate AI and GPU Research Intern at Intel seeks a graduate student to lead AI research and GPU optimization projects. Responsibilities include designing AI architectures for next‑gen GPUs, conducting parallel and distributed training research, developing memory management solutions, prototyping transformer and diffusion models, mentoring undergrads, authoring papers, presenting findings, collaborating with hardware teams, and contributing to grant proposals.

Hitachi America seeks a Research Science Intern for its Financial Innovation Lab in Santa Clara. The role focuses on developing AI and optimization algorithms for finance, insurance, and IoT, building proof‑of‑concepts, protecting IP through patents, and publishing results.

Safety Intern at Granite Construction supports accident prevention and safety compliance at a Santa Clara site. Assists in developing and implementing safety programs, conducting jobsite inspections, audits, and hazard analyses.

Applied Materials leads global materials engineering for semiconductor and display chips. As a Materials Simulation Engineering Intern, you will work with the Materials Simulation team in Santa Clara to develop and validate computational models of materials at the atomic and mesoscale.

Applied Materials, a global leader in materials engineering for chips and displays, seeks a Quantum Technology Engineer Intern to join its CTO group in Santa Clara. The role focuses on solid-state quantum solutions—superconducting qubits, optical quantum computing, NV‑diamond magnetometry, vapor cells—and collaborates with process, hardware, integration, and metrology teams to design and develop new quantum sensing devices.

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions for semiconductor and display manufacturing. This internship offers hands‑on experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting RF and electrical assemblies for plasma chambers.

The City of Santa Clara partners with Mission College to offer a Summer 2026 Student Intern II program. Eligible Mission College undergraduates may work across multiple city departments—including Community Development, Public Works, Finance, Human Resources, Library, Parks & Recreation, Silicon Valley Power, and Water & Sewer Utilities—performing tasks such as affordable housing research, building code policy drafting, traffic engineering reviews, utility customer service, IT support, and library outreach.

NVIDIA builds AI-powered transportation. The product management intern supports highway driving and active safety features, working with global markets and partners like Mercedes‑Benz.

Applied Materials seeks a Marketing Analytics Intern to support data-driven marketing initiatives in Santa Clara. The role involves cleaning and validating marketing data, building dashboards, responding to ad hoc analysis requests, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and documenting data processes.

Applied Materials leads in materials engineering for semiconductor and display chips, driving AI and IoT tech. As a Technical Marketing Intern in Santa Clara, you’ll join a high‑performing team of senior marketers and program leaders.

Applied Materials seeks a 2026 Summer Intern in Lithography Process Engineering for its Photonics Platforms Business in Santa Clara, CA. The role involves learning and applying advanced lithography technologies (DUV, I-line, stepper, mask aligner, maskless), designing test layouts, setting up and optimizing litho processes, collaborating with CDSEM engineers and cross-functional teams, and presenting technical results. Interns will contribute to AR, quantum computing, and optical interconnect device development while gaining hands‑on experience in a global leader of semiconductor equipment.

Applied Materials, a global leader in materials engineering, seeks a PhD student for a 2026 summer internship in Process Engineering. The role focuses on developing and integrating photonic interconnect technologies, including advanced packaging of EIC & PIC chips, silicon interposer design with RDL routing and TSV, PCB schematics, and prototype assembly.