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Internship Computer Chip Engineer Jobs in Illinois

Battery Test Technician

Normal, IL · On-site

$40 - $52/hr

Blue Chip Talent , in partnership with an automotive technology organization, is seeking a skilled ... The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering teams to support product validation and ...

Embedded Software Engineer

Mossville, IL · On-site

$95K - $126K/yr

... other chip-level interfacing. * Proficiency in Git version mgmt required. (Clearcase experience ... Minimum BS in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering required. Comp Sci or comparable may be ...

Battery Test Technician

Normal, IL · On-site

$40 - $52/hr

Blue Chip Talent , in partnership with an automotive technology organization, is seeking a skilled ... The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering teams to support product validation and ...

Be Seen First

You'll work directly with me and see your parts go from CAD to chip to finished product the same ... That means CAD work in Fusion 360 , CAM programming, building fixtures, setting up jobs, running ...

Controls Engineer

Cary, IL · On-site

$85K - $115K/yr

... chip inductors, power magnetics, and filters. Our headquarters are located in Cary, Illinois. We ... Proficient in using Microsoft Office for documentation. * CAD experience for schematic ...

Controls Engineer

Cary, IL · On-site

$85K - $115K/yr

... chip inductors, power magnetics, and filters. Our headquarters are located in Cary, Illinois. We ... Proficient in using Microsoft Office for documentation. * CAD experience for schematic ...

Controls Engineer

Cary, IL · On-site

$84K - $109K/yr

... chip inductors, power magnetics, and filters. Our headquarters are located in Cary, Illinois. We ... Proficient in using Microsoft Office for documentation. * CAD experience for schematic ...

... in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering (with computational focus), or related field * Preference for students who have completed 3+ years of coursework by the internship ...

... in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering (with computational focus), or related field * Preference for students who have completed 3+ years of coursework by the internship ...

... in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering (with computational focus), or related field * Preference for students who have completed 3+ years of coursework by the internship ...

... in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering (with computational focus), or related field * Preference for students who have completed 3+ years of coursework by the internship ...

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What is the difference between Internship Computer Chip Engineer vs Entry-Level Computer Chip Engineer?

AspectInternship Computer Chip EngineerEntry-Level Computer Chip Engineer
QualificationsCurrently enrolled or recent graduate, some coursework in electrical engineering or computer engineeringBachelor's degree in electrical/computer engineering or related field
Work EnvironmentInternship programs, supervised tasks, learning-focusedFull-time professional role, project responsibilities
Employer & IndustryTech companies, semiconductor firms, research labsSemiconductor companies, tech firms, manufacturing

Internship Computer Chip Engineers are students or recent graduates gaining hands-on experience, often part-time or temporary. Entry-Level Computer Chip Engineers are full-time professionals responsible for designing and testing chips. Internships serve as a stepping stone, while entry-level roles involve more responsibility and independence in the industry.

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Agentic AI Engineer

Full-time

Posted 9 days ago


Job description

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Agentic AI Engineer

Role Summary

Cadence is hiring early-career Agent AI Engineers to join our applied AI team building agentic systems for silicon design. You will work alongside senior AI engineers and chip-design domain experts on the core technical pillars of Cadence's agentic stack: training and adapting models for engineering tasks, engineering high-quality design context (RAG, prompt scaffolds, retrieval pipelines), and tuning the knowledge graphs and vector/graph databases that ground our agents. From day one you will be writing production code that lands in customer-facing AI products and directly accelerates how the world designs chips.

What You Will Do

  • Model Development. Train, fine-tune, distill, and evaluate LLMs / SLMs and embedding models for EDA-specific tasks. Hands-on with LoRA / PEFT, instruction tuning, preference optimization (DPO/GRPO), and rigorous eval harnesses for code and reasoning.
  • Design Context Engineering. Build the retrieval pipelines, prompt scaffolds, and tool-calling specs that feed Cadence agents the right design context (RTL, scripts, logs, reports, methodology docs) at the right token budget. Optimize for accuracy, latency, and cost.
  • Knowledge Graph & Database Tuning. Design schemas, tune ingestion, and optimize queries for graph DBs (Neo4j, ArangoDB, NebulaGraph) and vector stores (Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector, Chroma). Keep retrieval fast, accurate, and scoped to the right design hierarchy.
  • Agent Building Blocks. Implement and harden agent tools, memory, multi-hop reasoning patterns, and guardrails. Triage production failures and iterate.
  • Data Pipelines. Curate, clean, and label datasets from EDA artifacts (RTL, waveforms, logs, reports, schematics). Build synthetic-data and self-improvement loops where appropriate.
  • Evaluation & Telemetry. Build offline benchmarks and online metrics. Help define what 'good' looks like for chip-design agents and keep regressions out of main.
  • Collaborate & Learn. Pair with senior AI engineers, BU teams, and silicon domain experts. Learn the EDA flow as you go - we'll invest in you if you invest in the craft.

Must-Have Qualifications

  • BS / MS / PhD in CS, EE, ECE, AI/ML, or a closely related field (graduating in 2025-2026; recent grads also welcome).
  • Strong fundamentals in deep learning, transformers, and modern LLM mechanics (attention, tokenization, context windows, decoding).
  • Practical hands-on experience (coursework, internships, OSS, or serious side projects) with at least TWO of: LLM fine-tuning, RAG / retrieval, agentic frameworks, knowledge graphs, vector databases.
  • Solid Python engineering: comfortable with PyTorch and Hugging Face; writes clean, tested, version-controlled code.
  • Curiosity about silicon / chip design and willingness to learn a deep technical domain on the job.
  • Strong written and verbal communication; bias to ship working code over perfect plans.

Nice-to-Have / Bonus

  • Prior internship in AI/ML at a product company or research lab with shipped artifacts.
  • Hands-on with at least one agentic framework: LangGraph, AutoGen, Cursor SDK, Claude Code, MCP-based tool-calling stacks.
  • Experience with graph DBs (Neo4j, ArangoDB, NebulaGraph) and / or vector DBs (Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector, Chroma, Milvus).
  • ML systems / infra exposure: vLLM, TGI, Triton, distributed training, GPU performance tuning, quantization.
  • Coursework or projects in compilers, formal methods, hardware description languages (Verilog/SystemVerilog/Chisel), or EDA tools.
  • Publications, OSS contributions, or competitive ML records (Kaggle medals, MLPerf, agent benchmarks, hackathon wins).
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