2027 Masters Software Test Engineering Intern/Co-Op - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 25 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves participating in different phases of the Software Test lifecycle in close collaboration with development teams and Project Engineers to drive defects to closure.
What you'll do
- Develop and complete automated and manual Test Plans/Test Case with various test strategies, including Functional testing, Negative testing, Regression Testing, customer/end user testing, Performance, Reliability, and Usability.
- Prioritize and efficiently handle several concurrent projects and testing tasks.
- Reproduce, troubleshoot, and triage software defects, report them, and drive them to closure.
- Build Test Case/Plan for new features, new products (dGPU and APU), and new Operating Systems (Linux and/or Windows).
- Identify matrices and measurements for various aspects of the software QA development cycle and make them efficient.
What you'll need
- Currently enrolled in a US-based University in a Master's degree program majoring in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- Knowledge/experience with Software quality analysis process and methodology.
- PC configuration (both Software and Hardware) with methods of Troubleshooting and interest in PC platform architecture.
- Programming/scripting skills like Python, VBA, C++, Selenium framework.
- Keen interest in PC gaming and latest computer graphics technologies (including 3D graphics concepts/API/Gaming, VR and MR, display technologies (FreeSync/HDR), Multimedia, Compute).
- Exposure to development/triaging/debugging in Linux and/or Windows environment.
- Exposure to databases and reporting tools.
Skills: Software Test Engineering, automated test scripts, Test Plans/Test Case, Linux and/or Windows, Python
This role has been open 51 days — slightly above the 48-day median for Software Engineering Semiconductor roles.
Software Engineering Semiconductor · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
364
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$148k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (364 roles · 60 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 13 | 364 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 404 | 6127 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 48 d (+3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $148k |
Skills observed across this category: Software Test Engineering, automated test scripts, Test Plans/Test Case, Linux and/or Windows, Python
Who's hiring in this category
- Keysight Technologies · 39 open roles · median 27 d
- KLA Corporation · 31 open roles · median 118 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 28 open roles · median 204 d
- Micron Technology · 27 open roles · median 41 d
- NVIDIA · 27 open roles · median 45 d
- Applied Materials · 25 open roles · median 36 d
How we counted: 364 open Software Engineering Semiconductor (Systems Software) roles from 60 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.