Summer 2026 – Design Flow and Automation Engineer Intern (7263)

Overview of Role

TSMC’s Design Flow Signoff team is seeking a Design Flow and Automation Engineer Internship at the Austin Design Center for Summer 2026. The intern will report directly to the Director of the Design Flow Signoff Department. Our team covers a broad range of tools, including implementation, timing/EM/IR/power modeling, and analysis. We currently operate under a hybrid work schedule with 4 days in the office.

This Internship Program is open to students currently enrolled in a degree-seeking University that are graduating in 1 year to 2 years with a MS/PhD degree.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently working towards a M.S. or Ph.D.  in Electrical Engineering (or other Engineering fields with a strong mathematics/statistics background, or a related AI field)
• Python, C/C++, Unix experience required
• Experience with EDA tools for circuit simulation, timing analysis and library characterization
• Experience with data wrangling, pre-processing, and extraction from structured and unstructured data sources
• Experience with classical machine learning, deep learning,  foundation models, to develop data-driven solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with digital design flows, especially signoff flows also desirable
• Understanding of how digital devices and standard cells work
• Understanding of reinforcement learning, Large Language Models

Company Description

As a trusted technology and capacity provider, TSMC is driven by the desire to be:

• The world’s leading dedicated semiconductor foundry
• The technology leader with a strong reputation for manufacturing excellence
• Advancing semiconductor manufacturing innovations to enable the future of technology