Software Systems Intern

About The Role

As a Software Engineering Intern on the Systems team at HP IQ, you will work on low-level software that sits close to the hardware and helps power intelligent experiences across HP products. This role suits students who enjoy understanding how complex systems work under the hood. You will work across multiple layers of the software stack, investigate performance bottlenecks, optimize system behavior, and build software that interacts closely with hardware and system resources.

The team is looking for engineers who want to know how and why something performs the way it does, and how to make it better, not only whether it works.

What You Might Do

• Build and optimize low-level systems software using languages such as C and C++.
• Investigate performance bottlenecks and improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of existing systems.
• Work on data processing and sensor pipelines that connect software with underlying hardware.
• Analyze and improve memory usage, resource management, and system performance.
• Study how individual components affect overall system behavior across multiple layers of the software stack.
• Contribute to build systems, libraries, tooling, and system configuration.
• Debug complex software and system-level issues.
• Partner with firmware, electrical engineering, and other software teams to solve cross-functional technical problems.
• Own a meaningful technical project from exploration and implementation through testing and evaluation.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with modern C++
• Experience with Android development, especially native apps or AOSP
• Experience with Linux kernel driver development
• Experience porting reference algorithms to hardware accelerators (GPU, DSP, etc.)
• Familiarity with ARM System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture
• Experience developing bare-metal firmware for microcontrollers
• Ability to use common lab equipment (e.g., logic analyzers) to debug low-level software issues

2027 Internship Program Dates: May/June to August/September 2027. Final dates will be based on student schedules.

HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.