Software Engineering Intern (Nov 2024)

About Trimble

Trimble is an industrial technology company, concentrated on helping the world work, better. Their technology enables jobs to get done more precisely and accurately so you can build, construct, grow, and move the things they need to live lives and build future communities.

Your role

As a Software Engineer Intern at Trimble, you will work as an integral member of one of our software development teams, developing one of the products, and working within an Agile environment. This position is for working over the summer period, starting in November 2024. 

This could see you working in one of the following areas:

• Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT), a joint venture with Caterpillar - Working on Grade Control and Automation, in an embedded C++ platform with Android and Angular user interfaces
• Civil Construction Software (CCS) - coding large-scale cloud-based applications in C# and .Net Core, React, and Angular
• Corporate Services - Enable Trimble to sell products and services by developing cloud-native applications used globally and underpinned by relational data structures. Workloads are deployed to AWS.
• Trimble Forestry - enhancing a test automation suite using Playwright, enhancing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines on Bamboo and handling SDET tasks for deployments of test suites against new features.

The software engineering internships offer a variety of hands-on experience, depending on your area of interest and experience. You will receive hands-on experience using your coding and programming skills in a professional setting while learning how to operate in an agile, team environment. 

This will have you doing the following:

• Become intimately familiar with product requirements
• Develop high-quality software that satisfies the product requirements
• Work with developers to make sure that new features are created according to market requirements
• Work with development teams on complex, multi-dimensional projects, and learn valuable leadership skills
• Learn how to effectively work under pressure and as part of a team
• Understand and adopt coding standards and best practices.

Training & development

Whichever team you join, you will gain valuable hands-on experience, and be provided with challenging, meaningful tasks that will give you insight into what it's like working full-time as a valued member of a team. 

Benefits

Trimble evaluates their compensation and benefits regularly and adapts them to the local needs of the global organization. Employees may take advantage of the benefits such as:

1. Competitive wages
2. Performance-based increases
3. Medical & dental insurance based on region
4. Work-life balance programs
5. Career development

Career progression

Trimble internships are designed to prepare you for your career journey while growing as a professional through lunch and learns, team-building activities, and social networking events with other interns. Over the course of your internship, they want you to feel like you belong, innovate, and grow personally and professionally. 

To know more about career progression at Trimble, watch the video here.

Work-life balance

Employee well-being is of the utmost importance. Trimble provides resources and supports that address both physical and mental well-being, as well as issues including financial health. These efforts ensure that every employee is able to be their best self—both at work and at home.

Culture & vibe

The cultural diversity at Trimble creates potential for them to innovate and grow in ways only possible through exposure to different perspectives. Cultivating safe and open environments allows them to understand how culture shapes them and can strengthen them as a whole global organization.

To know more about Trimble culture, please watch the video here.

About you

Along with being a team player, with strong work prioritisation skills and a collaborative communication and working style, you will also possess these skills:

• Be currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related field
• Experience in one or more of the following languages: C++, C#, Angular, React, .Net Core, Python, Java, C, Robotics Operating Systems (ROS), Matlab, Linux/Bash, Typescript, SQL
• Ability to think critically and work independently or collaborate with a team
• A wide degree of creativity, openness, and latitude when approaching problems
• Enjoy working with new and emerging technology.

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• trimble.com/en/our-company/working-at-trimble/overview
• trimble.com/en/our-commitment/people-and-planet/dei-overview
• dl.trimble.com/www/trimble-sustainability-report-2021.pdf