This internship, on-site at Tidel Park in Taramani, Chennai, pays up to ₹14,500 a month for someone who wants to work on software that actually controls physical hardware, not just an app running on a screen. It sits under Embedded Systems & Hardware and runs as a structured training placement.
Hands-on responsibilities
Embedded work means the code and the physical device are never really separate problems. Over the course of the internship, expect to be involved in:
- Writing and testing firmware for hardware devices under the guidance of a senior engineer
- Debugging issues that span both circuit-level behavior and system-level software
- Documenting technical specifications clearly enough that another engineer can pick up the work later
- Working directly with lab equipment, oscilloscopes and logic analyzers, to actually see what a signal is doing
- Sitting in on design reviews to understand why a hardware decision was made a certain way before touching the firmware built around it
A recent bug in the team's current project involved a temperature sensor that read correctly at room temperature but drifted by a couple of degrees whenever a nearby motor kicked on. It turned out the motor's switching noise was leaking onto the sensor's power line, and no amount of firmware filtering fixed it cleanly until someone added a small capacitor right at the sensor's supply pin. That's the kind of problem embedded engineers run into constantly: the fix isn't always in the code.
An intern working alongside the senior engineer on that bug spent two days convinced the issue was a software timing problem, since that was the more familiar territory. Watching the actual root cause turn out to be a hardware layout issue was, by the intern's own account afterward, more useful than an entire semester of embedded systems coursework.
Skills
The role calls for working knowledge of Embedded C, hands-on experience with microcontrollers, some exposure to RTOS concepts, real debugging ability, and genuine attention to detail, since a missed decimal point in a register setting can cause a bug that takes days to trace. None of this needs to be at an expert level for an internship, but it does need to be more than textbook familiarity. Someone who has only ever written firmware in a simulator, without touching real hardware, will likely find the first few weeks here a bigger adjustment than expected.
A few extras would strengthen an application. Experience with a specific microcontroller family, ARM Cortex-M or AVR, for instance, gives an interviewer something concrete to ask about. Basic PCB design exposure, even just through a hobby project, shows genuine interest in the hardware side rather than treating it as an afterthought. Familiarity with communication protocols like I2C, SPI, or UART comes up in almost every embedded project sooner or later. Version control habits matter too; firmware projects get messy fast without disciplined commits, and an intern who already treats Git as a normal part of the workflow saves the team real time.
What's expected on paper
A bachelor's degree in electronics, electrical engineering, or a closely related field is required by the listing. There's no minimum professional experience requirement for this internship, which aligns with an associate-level training role aimed at students and early-career candidates rather than someone already working in the field. A strong academic project involving a microcontroller, even a class assignment rather than something built independently, still counts for something during screening, since it shows exposure to the same basic toolchain used on the job.
Pay and perks
The stipend tops out at ₹14,500 a month. Interns also receive direct mentorship from senior team members and a certificate of completion once the term wraps up, and performing well genuinely opens the door to a full-time offer afterward.
- Monthly stipend paid on a regular schedule
- Mentorship from senior engineers throughout the internship
- A certificate of completion at the end of the term
- On-site cafeteria access at the Tidel Park campus
- Cab or commute support for getting to and from the office
Naukri Mitra has tracked a fairly steady stream of embedded and hardware internships from Chennai's Taramani corridor for years, given how many electronics and semiconductor companies have offices clustered around Tidel Park.
Getting there
The internship is on-site at Tidel Park, Taramani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, pincode 600113. This isn't a remote role, and students looking for embedded software engineer internships in Chennai specifically should expect to be in the lab daily, since debugging hardware issues over a video call simply doesn't work the same way. The cab support helps with the commute, but candidates already living closer to Taramani will find the daily logistics considerably simpler. Chennai's broader electronics manufacturing base, spread across the city and its outskirts, means the Tidel Park campus is just one node in a much larger local hardware ecosystem.
Life after the internship
Chennai has one of the denser clusters of embedded and hardware companies in India, so this specific project experience opens doors well beyond this one employer if a candidate eventually looks elsewhere. A previous intern who worked through a full firmware debugging cycle end to end, from initial bug report to a verified fix, ended up fielding interview questions almost entirely about that one project when applying elsewhere afterward. That single project mattered more in interviews than the rest of a fairly standard engineering resume.
Nobody can promise a full-time offer in advance, since headcount at the end of an internship term is rarely decided this far ahead. What does transfer regardless of how this specific placement ends is the skill set itself: reading a datasheet properly, thinking about power and signal integrity alongside code, applies to almost any embedded role afterward.
Applying
Interested students should apply through the standard process linked in this listing, including a resume noting any personal projects involving microcontrollers, circuit design, or firmware. A photo or short description of a hobby project, even something as simple as a home automation build, tends to stand out during screening. Interviews typically include a walkthrough of how a candidate would debug a hypothetical hardware fault, rather than pure theory questions about embedded systems concepts.
