2025 (8-Month) Internship (Canada) - DAE - AI Software Engineer

at  Zebra Technologies

OVERVIEW:

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working to make everyday life better. United by curiosity and care, we develop dynamic solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.
Being a part of Zebra Nation means being seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our diverse perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.
You have opportunities to learn and lead at a forward-thinking company, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes that you care about – locally and globally. We’ve only begun reimaging the future – for our people, our customers, and the world.
Let’s create tomorrow together.
The purpose of this internship is to prepare college students for entry into the business world by providing a thorough understanding of the various functions of the Zebra Technologies organization. The program is designed to provide you with a full experience so that you can fully envision a career with Zebra. You will be positioned for success with training, exposure to all parts of the business, social activities, a professional mentor relationship and development sessions to help you discover your own performance edge!
The SW Design Assurance Engineering (DAE) Team supports Zebra’s promise of quality to our customers and is responsible for ensuring products meet specifications throughout program phases from components to final product developed & design by Product team. We are globally distributed team with members having extensive industry experience in embedded devices, software solutions, SaaS cloud solutions and machine vision technologies. We are looking for a dynamic intern for developing the next generation of GenAI based solutions in a fast paced professional environment and will craft and implement new model development features, optimizations, define APIs, analyze and tune performance, expand functionality coverage to build larger, coherent toolsets and libraries. You will collaborate with internal partners, users, and members of the open source community to analyze, define and implement highly optimized solutions.
Responsibilities:
After an initial on the job training shadowing senior members of the staff to learn the current state of the art processes, the intern will be responsible for developing new GenAI based tools for the SW products developed by Zebra Technologies.

This will include but not limited to:

• Utilizing GenAI tools to automate requirements documentation and generating test cases for any new product under development.
• Use different LLMs such as OpenAIs ChatGPT as well as Google Gemini and report on strengths and weaknesses of both.
• Pilot newly developed GenAI tool on real world data and demonstrate performance using objective metrics
• Generalize the pilot tool into a standard platform for use across the organization
• Deployment of trained models in production environment using LLMOps.
• Develop planning, organizational and leadership skills
• Increase technology knowledge and skills
• Develop team-based work proficiencies
• Develop interpersonal skills to connect with day-to-day business contacts through follow up activities.

MINIMUM QUALIFIATIONS:

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s / Master’s program in computer science or any adjacent STEM field with an anticipated graduation date before June 2026.
• Experiene with PC architecture and Windows operating systems
• Must be authorized to work in Canada without requiring sponsorship now or in the future

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Basic knowledge of Linux
• Intellectual curiosity with a strong desire to learn and grow
• Proven leadership and excellence in professional, academic, and/or extracurricular experiences
• Ability to collaborate as part of a dynamic team
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in SW development and testing processes such as unit testing, regression testing, functional testing etc.
• Experience in AI/ML and GenAI based projects.
• Programming experience in SW languages such as C, C++, C#, python etc.
• Candidates with strong interest in and/or having done academic course work in any of the following: computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, GenAI, LLM models etc.
• Proficiency in engineering tools such as git, github, JIRA, Polarion etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (including Excel, Word, & PowerPoint)
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