Computer Hardware Engineers

Supports the product management of different components of the vehicle. You may own your own parts, or help a coworker with one of his parts. This normally involves CAD modeling/surfacing/drafting, components testing, and coordinating with other teams or suppliers.

Illustrate how you are capable of understanding analog or digital designs. Once you have that foundation, it's just a matter of the correct attitude - are you curious? are you keen to learn and improve? do you have a scientific mind that wants to drive to the root cause?

My internship was paid, and I was very fortunate for it being so. My wage was great in helping me to fund my college education. While I am not going to divulge my hourly wage, I would suggest that anything ranging from 15-25 $/hr would be an appropriate expectation. With that being said, I would ...

One of the biggest skills I developed during my time as an Intern for Alcon was technical writing. Since Alcon creates medical devices, there are strict regulations that affect basically everything you do. These regulations require you to be very thorough when drafting formal documents. For this ...

It varies on few important things. The biggest issue with Bangalore is the traffic. If you like close to the campus, this is least worried about thing. Second, typically during time of release (once or twice or thrice a year), we spend more time (like 10-12hours a day) doing work. Usually its se...

A typical day is usually covered with 30mins of reading emails and following up with verification engineers, 2-3 hours of design thinking on RTL, 1 hour of coding and 1 hour of experiment and 1 hour of interaction with microarchitect or architect or coworker. The meetings usually are status updat...

In short - they design IP blocks for either existing IPs or new IPs. Detailed: A typical role will be based on the experience. If the engineer is fresher, then he would be initially tasked to run some design related tools and analysis the design or assist the verification team to fix the bugs. A...

I took a majority of the ownership of my project as it was my project! Although my mentor and manager assisted in helping me find who to talk to and find the information I needed, it was still a project I was fully responsible for. There was a group project I did with other interns and that proje...

My role included performing battery life, CPU performance, and other tests on all of Dell's FY18 devices to better enhance the FY19 catalog devices. The results from the tests were geared towards the various roles that would be using the various devices.

I was responsible for learning ISO quality standards for electrical and mechanical medical devices, designing methods to test products to those standards, and executing quality tests for various medical device products.

The position of system Integration and test engineer involves several different tasks. I primarily work with the special test equipment developing and integrating the hardware and software, after development I also help test the equipment. During test often times problems are uncovered and must b...

You hourly pay is based on your experience and college level I believe. During the summer before my senior year I was earning $23 an hour. If you live more than 50 miles away from you main campus, they will provide you with the option of getting Intern Housing which is completely paid for. The ho...

It depends. I come from a physical science/engineering background and my manager gave me a quite open-ended R&D project to work on (well, in fact, he asked me to choose). Not that they don't have materials related problems, but you need to discuss with your manager and ideally have a well-defined...

What a hardware engineer at apple does varies significantly depending on the team they work with. This could range from low level layout chip design, to gate level circuit design, or at a higher level RTL and system architecture. Typically, students take courses and work on projects/internships t...

I think the most important skills needed as a Hardware Intern are strong understanding of fundamental concepts and the ability to learn a lot of new things quickly. Among the fundamental concepts I’ve used during my internship are Electromagnetism, RLC filter circuits, op amps, transistor operati...

- Curiosity, about how things work - Skepticism, especially about authority and the status-quo. You must question things like "we do it like that because that's the way it's always been done" - Perseverance, or having a "can-do" attitude. Nothing is more depressing than an engineer whose motto is...

It depends. I come from a physical science/engineering background and my manager gave me a quite open-ended R&D project to work on (well, in fact, he asked me to choose). Not that they don't have materials related problems, but you need to discuss with your manager and ideally have a well-defined...

You would need 3 tools to make it into any company- a) Excellent and descriptive Linkedin profile. b) Short but smart resume. c) Short statement of purpose in resonance with your intent. Your Linkedin profile is the gateway. Every time you apply for an internship make sure you include your URL ...

Make your self valuable by getting involved. Make friends with all levels of employees. Take part in cross team activities and most importantly get the job done. set targets for every day, meet them. Keep a good channel of communication with your manager. Don't be afraid to ask for help. but if ...

I liked many things such as the work itself and how challenging it is. I was really given the freedom to give new ideas and even explore them and work on them. I loved that about Apple (again, this might vary with teams). What I wish was a little different is the openness about the project I was ...