Summer Internships

This summer, several College of Engineering students interned at companies across the U.S. and internationally. These undergraduate and master’s students represent departments across Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley locations.

In their own words, Electrical and Computer students describe their internships and what these experiences allowed for them.

Joshua Nee (ECE MS student): DoorDash

This summer, I interned as a software engineer on DoorDash’s DashPass team, where I owned a new member-facing service from design through production launch. Rather than build a one-time solution, I architected the foundation that every future project on the team now inherits, which has been the most rewarding part of the summer. My team trusted me with real ownership, and with their support I shipped it to 10% of DashPass members, impacting tens of thousands of people since launch. Beyond the code, I’ve genuinely loved the culture here, from casual badminton nights with coworkers to feeling supported as an intern from day one.

Jocelyn Xu (ECE, '28): Siemens

I worked as an embedded engineer intern at Siemens Energy from May to August. I worked on the firmware for autonomous inspection robots designed to navigate and examine large industrial equipment. I built the low-level systems that let the robot sense its own motion and position in real time by combining data from motion sensors and wheel encoders to help it navigate accurately. I also engineered the robot’s precision movement controls, enabling it to move smoothly along five different axes of motion and implemented an automatic inspection workflow. To tie it all together, I also developed custom communication protocols and a graphical user interface to enable communication among a computer, controller, and the robot.