ELEC60016 Placement Showcase

69 Placements
15 Skill Areas

Will Zhang

BytePlus (ByteDance)
Solution Architect Intern
London, UK

BytePlus is the enterprise arm of ByteDance, the company behind TikTok. It sells access to the same artificial intelligence models that power TikTok and Douyin — including models t...

Software AI Finance

Haiyi Yu

Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK)
CPU Architecture Intern
Cambridge, UK

My 6-month industrial placement was with the CPU Architecture Department at Huawei R&D Cambridge. In modern chip design, physically manufacturing hardware prototypes to test new ar...

Software Hardware (Digital)

Jeremy Tan

Qualcomm
Digital Verification Intern
Cambridge

During my industrial placement at Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. in Cambridge, I worked within a team developing technology for wireless devices such as headphones and s...

Hardware (Digital)

Minesh Sachin Sathiyaamoorthy

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor
Systems Architect Intern
Bishops Stortford

This placement was focused on improving the digital power controller architecture for a multiphase buck voltage regulator. Initially I spent time learning about the converter and i...

Hardware (Digital) Signal Processing Control systems

Kevin Huang

Arm
Front End CAD Intern
Cambridge

During my placement at Arm, I worked within a software engineering team that develops tools and infrastructure to support the development of computer chips. Rather than designing h...

Software Hardware (Digital)

Yuki

DCA Design International
Trainee Electronics Engineer
Warwick

DCA Design International is a product design consultancy based in Warwick, covering a wide range of sectors including industrial, medical, scientific, and consumer products. Their ...

Hardware (Analog) Hardware (Digital)

Siddharth Mishra

Arm
FPGA Engineer Intern
Cambridge

I spent six months on placement at Arm, within the team that builds large-scale hardware prototypes used to test new chip designs before they're manufactured. These prototypes let ...

Hardware (Digital) Software AI

Emanuel Guerreiro

Dojo (Paymentsense)
Associate AI Engineer Intern
Paddington, London

I spent my year in industry at Dojo, a UK fintech company that provides card payment technology to small and medium-sized businesses, working within Horizons, Dojo's in-house AI te...

Finance AI Software

de Germay de Cirfontaine

Dassault Systèmes
Research Engineering Intern
Vélizy-Villacoublay, France

During the placement at Dassault Systèmes, the project focused on developing deep learning methods for the automatic segmentation of coronary arteries in X-ray angiography. Coronar...

Software AI

Harry

Qualcomm
RFA Intern
Cambridge

I spent my 6-month placement at Qualcomm's Cambridge office, working as part of a team that designs the hardware inside some of Qualcomm's leading products. I got to take a enginee...

Hardware (Analog) Communications

Kayvan Faghani

Apple
Dynamic Linker Software Engineer
United States of America

My placement started in April and ended in September. I worked as a software engineer writing tooling for the dynamic linker and the shared cache on Apple platforms. I was given my...

Software

Jaber Ahmed

Technelec Ltd
Engineering Intern
Oakham

I completed a six-month industrial placement at Technelec, working as an Engineering Intern within the power electronics team. Throughout the placement, I supported the design and ...

Software Hardware (Analog) Power Electronics

Neil Pakrasi

Cirrus Logic
Emulation Engineer
Newbury

My 6-month industrial placement has been with Cirrus Logic, a semiconductor company that designs mixed-signal chips. Their products are found across smartphones, PCs, professional ...

Hardware (Digital)

Akarsh Bharadwaj Gopalam

Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd (QTIL)
Software Engineering Intern
Cambridge

I completed a placement within the Voice and Music Tools team at Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd (QTIL). The team develops and maintains a Python-based debugging tool used...

Software

Colby McKim

Arm
Verification Intern
Manchester

During my placement I developed several technical skills through the design and implementation of the Skeleton Testbench Generator. I gained a deeper understanding of the Media ver...

Software AI Verification

Flavio Gazzetta

Apple
PMU Design Verification Intern
Swindon

The chip I worked on played the role of managing power, deciding what gets energy, how much, and when. Getting this wrong is expensive. Some mistakes can be worked around once the ...

Hardware (Digital) Hardware (Analog)

Charlotte Gibson

Callosum
Technical Intern
London, United Kingdom

Callosum builds infrastructure that lets heterogeneous chips and intelligence co-evolve, rather than treating hardware and software as separate problems. This allows chips and soft...

Software AI Hardware (Digital)

Oliver Cassidy

AMD
Research Associate
United Kingdom

During my placement at AMD Research and Advanced Development, I worked on FINN, an open-source system that converts compact artificial-intelligence models into custom hardware for ...

Software AI Hardware (Digital)

Nishant Kidangan Mathew

Apple
Formal Verification for Hardware IP Validation
London

Working under the Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) team at Apple. Developing a tool to improve the efficiency of digital designs in FPGA synthesis....

Hardware (Analog) Hardware (Digital)

Scott Verdin

Analog Devices
Analogue and mixed signal (AMS) design engineer
Newbury

At the Newbury design centre, I joined the AMS design team working on ADI's next generation "high-speed precision" ADC. When I joined the team, the project was moving out of the de...

Hardware (Analog) Hardware (Digital)

Ashis Gurung

Amazon
Operations Engineer
Coventry

During my six-month placement with Amazon's Operations Engineering team, I had the opportunity to work on a project that sat at the intersection of artificial intelligence, industr...

AI Maangement, PLC Controls Software

Dashiell Johal

Flakt Group
ML engineer
Colchester/Remote

Walk into any office and look up: the ceiling is quietly doing engineering. Chilled beams cool the room, diffusers deliver fresh air, grilles draw stale air away. Behind each one i...

Software AI

Alix Le Coguic

ChapsVision
Junior Data Scientist
Paris, France

I spent six months at ChapsVision, a company that builds AI-powered software for analysing large amounts of data. I worked in the team responsible for natural language processing, ...

Software AI

Lia (Evangelia) Kommata

Apple
PMU Digital Design Intern
Swindon, UK

I did my 6-month placement at Apple, within the PMU team, based in Swindon. I was a Power Management Unit (PMU) Digital Design Intern. The PMU is responsible for controlling the de...

Hardware (Digital)

Dillon Jayasinghe

TTP - The Technology Partnership
Intern Consultant
Melbourn, Cambridge

A fun placement with lots of other placement students, whether that was summer interns or year in industry. A workplace environment with lots of support and nurturing, coupled wit...

Hardware (Analog) Hardware (Digital) Software AI Signal Processing Communications

Alexander Brown

Qualcomm
ML Research Engineer
Cork, Ireland

From March to September 2026 I worked at Qualcomm's R&D site in Cork, Ireland, as part of the group that develops the software stack enabling AI models to run efficiently on the co...

Software AI

Aurel Ersek

Arm
GPU Hardware Engineer
Cambridge

I completed a six month industrial placement at Arm as a GPU Hardware Engineer in the Verification Methodology team. My work focused on internal engineering tools and AI assisted v...

Software AI Hardware (Digital)

Chenxuan XI

Technelec Ltd.
Placement Hardware Engineer
Technelec Ltd. Lands End Way, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 6RB, United Kingdom

During my industrial placement at Technelec Ltd, I participated in the development of motor-drive inverter hardware for applications including robotics, marine systems and unmanned...

Hardware (Analog)

Ruizhu Tian

Beijing Smartchip Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.
Software Testing Engineer
Beijing

During my industrial placement at Beijing Smartchip Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., I worked as a Software Testing Engineer within the software testing team. I supported the ve...

Software Communications Signal Processing

Wenjie Mei

Ubtech
Vision Algorithm Intern
Shenzhen, China

My placement is divided into 2 projects, both related to robot manipulation and deep learning Project 1: - Team target: finetune a System controling the robot to pick up and sort ...

AI robotics

Partha Khanna

Arm
Productivity Engineering and AI Integration
Cambridge, UK

I spent six months at Arm working on AI and engineering tools used by teams across the company. Most of my work focused on building an evaluation platform for AI systems, covering ...

Software AI

Lucas Venetz

Arm
Hardware Engineering Intern
Cambridge

I worked across CPU design teams on RTL development, verification and tooling. My initial work focused on the SME2 co-processor, where I simplified part of the register-renaming lo...

Hardware (Digital)

Aadin

SPAICE Tech
Computer Vision Engineer
London

The placement allows me to work closely with a broad range of data and signals. From camera images, LiDAR pointclouds to RADAR signals, my job is to develop algorithms that can syn...

AI Software Signal Processing Communications

Benjamin Clemente

SpaceX
Software Engineering Intern
Redmond - Washington - USA

I spent six months as a Software Engineering Intern at SpaceX, on the Starlink Direct-to-Cell team. Direct-to-Cell lets ordinary mobile phones connect to satellites, without a spec...

Software Communications Signal Processing

Elson Jiat Ming Tho

Citadel Securities
FPGA Engineering Intern
Hong Kong

Having recently completed my six-month industrial placement, I can fully recognize how profoundly the experience has shaped my engineering standards and career aspirations. As part...

Hardware (Digital) Finance

Szymon Ciba

Lodestar Space
Avionics FPGA Engineering Intern
London

My main project has been designing a high speed network switch that lets the different computers and sensors onboard a satellite talk to each other reliably. Think of it as similar...

Hardware (Digital) Communications

Shravan Kumar Murki

Amazon
Business Analyst Intern
London, United Kingdom

Worked within Amazon's EU last mile capacity planning analytics team supporting on AI and automation initiatives. Developed a full-stack analytics application supporting time criti...

AI Software Data Science

Ivy Yu

GF Securities (HK)
Equity Derivatives Intern
HongKong

As an Equity Derivatives (EQD) intern, I worked with the trading desk of a market-making team specialising in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, including swaps, options, and stru...

Software AI Finance

Tara Venkatesam

Arm
FPGA Intern
Cambridge

I am completing my industrial placement at Arm, working in an FPGA-focused engineering environment that supports the prototyping and validation of complex hardware designs. FPGA pr...

Hardware (Digital)

Shreeya Agarwal

G-Research
FPGA Engineering Intern
London

As an FPGA Engineer I have contributed towards both hardware and software within the FPGA team, with the primary goal of reducing time taken to place an FPGA in new markets. I was ...

Software AI Hardware (Digital) Finance

Clyde Pangilinan

Arm
FPGA Engineer Intern
Cambridge

Joined the Solutions Engineering business unit at Arm as an FPGA engineering intern. Worked on integration of an Ethernet-oriented subsystem into an FPGA prototyping platform, for ...

Hardware (Digital) Communications

Hyo Hwang

Arm
GPU Hardware Intern
Cambridge

During my six-month industrial placement at Arm, I worked within the GPU Hardware team, contributing to the development and integration of the debugging infrastructure that lets en...

Hardware (Digital)

Achira Waduge

Imec Cambridge UK
Chip Verification Infrastructure Intern
Cambridge, UK

I completed a 6-month industrial placement where I worked in a research and development environment focused on advanced electronics. During the placement, I was involved in a proje...

Software Hardware (Digital)

Eliott Chataignier

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM)
Summer Associate
London

I completed a six-month industrial placement at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), working in the Execution Technology team in London. I worked on software supporting electronic trad...

Software AI Finance

Yassine Serrhini

Raspberry Pi
Design, Software Development and Modelling of Integrated Circuits
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Designed and verified several circuits. Developed automated procedures for verification....

Hardware (Analog) Hardware (Digital)

Ziyang Liu

Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK)
CPU Architecture Intern
Cambridge

I spent my placement in a CPU architecture research team, working on the hardware and software aspects that go into a processor's design. The team's work is quite broad, overall re...

Software Hardware (Digital) AI

Ali Rabie

Apple
GPU Design Verification Engineer Internship
London

Working on pre-silicon hardware verification of a specific component within in the GPU to ensure the hardware functions as intended. The overall goal is to simulate the GPU extensi...

Hardware (Digital) Software

Selime Nur Ozyurt

Argela Technologies
AI Engineer Intern
Istanbul, Turkiye

During my placement at Argela Technologies, I worked in the AI & Software Research team on making the company's AI chat systems faster and more reliable. Modern AI assistants can ...

AI Software

Harishan Ganeshan

KAIKAKU AI (acquired by REEF Technologies)
Software Engineer
London, UK

I spent my industrial placement as a Software Engineering Intern at a six-person London startup, building automated robotic machinery for restaurants. KAIKAKU's flagship product,...

Software Hardware (Digital) Finance AI

Max Ryan

Apple
GPU RTL Design Engineer Intern
London

I've been working in the GPU Top Design team at Apple which is one of the many teams working on designing the graphics chips that power Apple's devices....

Hardware (Digital)

Michael Chenxu Li

Apple
GPU Design Verification
London

I completed my placement as a GPU Design Verification intern, working on pre-silicon functional verification of GPU RTL blocks to ensure the design met its specification before tap...

Hardware (Digital)

Yuanzhou(Michael) Wu

Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd
CPU Architecture Intern
Cambridge

I spent six months as a research intern at Huawei's Cambridge Research Centre, in a team working on systems software and memory safety. My project was about "memory leaks" -- a co...

Software Hardware (Digital)

Benoit Ben Moubamba

Amazon
Engineer Intern
London

I completed the placement as an Operations Engineer within Amazon's Robotic Deployment Engineering team. My role sat at the intersection of robotics, systems engineering, and oper...

Software Communications

Qichao (Arlo) Wang

Squarepoint Capital
Software Developer Intern
London

I spent six months at Squarepoint Capital, an investment management firm whose trading decisions are made by computer programs rather than by people. Those programs are only as goo...

Software

Sam Müller-Menrad

DeepDrive
Industrialisation Intern
Munich, Germany

I spent just over five months as an Industrialisation Intern at DeepDrive, a Munich-based deep tech company developing next-generation electric motors. Its core innovation is the D...

Finance Communications Hardware (Analog) Hardware (Digital)

Mustafa Idris

Arm
Software Engineer
Cambridge

My placement at Arm has let me work on two very different projects: improving a performance-monitoring tool used by Windows-on-Arm developers, and speeding up software used in larg...

Software

Arjun Watve

Arm
Hardware Engineer
Sheffield

I completed my industrial placement at Arm in a team that checks chip designs before they are manufactured. The placement introduced me to the scale of engineering work in industry...

Hardware (Digital)

Sean Ryder

Riverlane
Hardware and Verification Intern
Cambridge

Riverlane builds technology for quantum computers, a new kind of computer that can solve certain problems far faster than today's machines. Quantum computers are very sensitive to ...

Software Hardware (Digital)

Sam Hussey

Arm
SoC Verification Intern
Cambridge

Arm is a world-leading semiconductor company whose processor technology powers over 99% of smartphones worldwide and is increasingly being used in servers, automotive systems and A...

Hardware (Digital) Software AI

George Politis

PulpaTronics
Software Developer Intern
London

I spent my placement at PulpaTronics, a startup developing RFID tags made from paper instead of plastic and metal. RFID tags are the small labels that let a shop scan an item witho...

AI Hardware (Analog) Software

Alexander Lewis

Arm
CPU Formal Verification Intern
Cambridge

During my placement at Arm, I worked in a team that verifies CPU processor designs. My main project focused on the Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) decoder, which is responsible f...

Software Hardware (Digital)

Soon Yung

DBS Bank Ltd
Risk Team Engineer
Singapore

I worked in a risk team that managed technological developments in DBS. As part of my placement, I was tasked to build websites that showcased changes in data trends, which were us...

Software Website Development

Sam Davies

EnAcuity
Machine Learning Intern
London

EnAcuity is a medical technology company spun out of Imperial College London and UCL. Keyhole surgery is carried out through a camera, and what the surgeon sees is much the same co...

Software AI Signal Processing

Ayuub Mohamud

Arm Ltd
Formal Verification Intern
Cambridge, England

During the course of the summer, I worked at Arm in their Cambridge office, within the Little Core-A formal verification team. Little Core-A is the name given to a class of process...

Hardware (Digital) Software

Maciej Grzegorczyk

UKAEA
Power Academy Placement Student
Culham Campus, Abbingdon, OX14 3DB

My placement was with the UK Atomic Energy Authority, working on the STEP fusion programme across the Heating and Current Drive and Power and Cooling teams. I worked on several eng...

Software Hardware (Analog)

Xiong Yi Loh

Arm
GPU Modelling Intern
Cambridge, UK

During my placement at Arm, I worked as a GPU Modelling Intern within the Performance Correlation sub-team. My placement focused on comparing the performance of Arm's GPU cycle-app...

Software Hardware (Digital)

Theodore Shah

Apple
RTL Power Optimisation Intern
22 Bishopsgate, London

Over 6 months, I have been helping the Power Team mostly with “Power Triaging”, which involves going through RTL simulations, identifying power saving opportunities, and then provi...

Hardware (Digital)

Sanjit Raman

IMC
Hardware Engineer Intern
Amsterdam

I spent six months in the hardware team in Amsterdam. My project ran in three stages: building a design for a newer generation of hardware. Alongside the engineering, I learned how...

Software Hardware (Digital) Finance Communications AI

Abraham Lin

Qube Research and Technologies
Quant Tech Analyst
London

During my placement at QRT, I worked on a real-time dashboard that presents account information across funds and regions. My main project was to create a recorder and replay capabi...

Software System Performance