Hardware Summer Intern

Location: Bristol, UK
Duration: 12 weeks
Salary: £2500 per month
Start date: June 2027
Applications deadline: Midnight, 29 th November
We encourage you to apply early, as we may close applications before the advertised deadline.

Explore a career at Graphcore through a 12-week summer internship, gaining hands-on experience on real projects. You’ll bring fresh ideas, put your learning into practice and help shape what we’re creating. Along the way, you’ll tackle challenging problems with a team who welcome your questions and support you as you build your skills and confidence.

Put your engineering foundations to work exploring the electronic hardware behind Graphcore’s AI compute platforms.

Your internship could focus on Hardware Design, Signal Integrity or elements of both, depending on your interests, the available projects and how your strengths develop. You’ll contribute to a clearly scoped design, analysis, validation or debugging task, with guidance as you work towards a conclusion supported by evidence.

In Hardware Design, your tasks could include schematic and circuit design, component evaluation, PCB development, board bring-up or laboratory testing. You could help check power rails and clocks, exercise interfaces, investigate faults or develop test and debug access.

In Signal Integrity, you could explore high-speed links such as PCIe and Ethernet, DDR and other memory interfaces, or clocks and timing-critical signals. Tasks could include reviewing PCB layouts and routing, simulating interconnect behaviour or comparing laboratory measurements with analysis to understand design trade-offs.

Hardware Design and Signal Integrity engineers work closely with PCB layout, silicon, validation, firmware, mechanical and thermal engineering, manufacturing and system teams. You’ll see how different engineering perspectives come together to make complex boards work.

Staff Hardware Engineers and Team Leads will support you with clearly scoped work and regular technical guidance. You can ask for help as you explore unfamiliar concepts, discuss your findings and use feedback to improve your approach.

Decisions are shaped by simulation, measurement and engineering judgement. As an intern, you’ll be encouraged to ask questions, speak up and try out ideas early, with support from experienced engineers as you learn.

Over the 12 weeks, you’ll connect your studies with how boards are designed, analysed, brought up and validated. Your project will help you develop a methodical approach to defining a problem, testing your thinking and explaining what the evidence shows.

You’ll gain exposure to professional tools such as Mentor Expedition, Ansys HFSS and Keysight ADS, as relevant to your work. Comparing simulations, design choices and laboratory results will help you understand how real hardware behaves and which areas of hardware engineering you’d like to explore further.

Your internship is a chance to explore a future ending on your performance and the roles available, there may be an opportunity to join one of our graduate programmes once you’ve graduated.

• Currently studying towards a degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics or a closely related technical discipline
• Strong electrical and electronic engineering foundations, with an interest in hardware design or signal integrity and how real electronic systems work
• A logical, first-principles approach to unfamiliar problems, with practical engineering experience from university projects, laboratory work, personal projects or activities such as Formula Student, robotics or…