Texas Instruments

TI says it takes on an average of more than 2,000 interns a year, spanning engineering tracks – analog and digital IC design, applications, process and packaging, test and validation, systems and software – and business tracks in operations, finance, IT, HR and marketing. The Career Accelerator Program gives new graduates function-specific technical training and mentored project work, and TI states that strong interns are invited either back for a second internship or onto that programme directly. Because the internship feeds the graduate programme, the summer internship is the main entry point: converting one matters more here than applying cold for a new-grad role, so it is worth lining up the internship application a year ahead of the full-time role you ultimately want.

Its company overview cites 15 manufacturing sites worldwide and an explicit strategy of expanding internal manufacturing capacity; the company has committed more than $60 billion to new 300mm wafer fabs across Texas and Utah (Manufacturing Dive). That vertical integration widens the role map well beyond design: a large share of TI's engineering openings sit in process, equipment, packaging and manufacturing engineering – functions a fabless employer does not staff – so it is worth prioritising for an applicant targeting semiconductor process or fab work rather than circuit design alone.