Internships in Syracuse

Included market. Use the Syracuse metro with Onondaga County as the core. Preserve downtown, University Hill, DeWitt, Liverpool, Cicero/Clay and the airport or logistics corridor.

Employment node: Downtown and Armory Square · What a student should verify: This node can contain government, finance, consulting, law, nonprofit, and headquarters work. Public-sector and private-employer calendars should be tracked separately.

Employment node: University Hill and medical corridor · What a student should verify: Distinguish clinical, research, administrative, finance, data, and technology work. Patient-facing or laboratory access may require credentialing and earlier onboarding.

Employment node: DeWitt and East Syracuse technology sites · What a student should verify: Do not infer product engineering from a technology label. Confirm whether the local team works in software, data, infrastructure, implementation, sales, support, or facilities.

Employment node: Liverpool and north-county offices · What a student should verify: Confirm the exact office or facility, legal employer, team, commute, work mode, and project before treating this node as a good fit.

Employment node: Cicero–Clay development corridor · What a student should verify: Confirm the exact office or facility, legal employer, team, commute, work mode, and project before treating this node as a good fit.

Employment node: Airport and logistics corridor · What a student should verify: Separate corporate analytics from terminal, hub, warehouse, or field operations. Check shift timing, secure-area access, physical requirements, and transit outside normal office hours.

Transit and commute reality. Centro serves central corridors. Clay, DeWitt and defense or manufacturing sites may require a car, particularly for early shifts or secure facilities.

Before applying, check the route at the required arrival and departure time. A transit trip that works at noon may fail for a 6:00 a.m. plant shift, an overnight logistics assignment, a weekend hospitality schedule, or a secure facility with a long walk from the gate. Include parking, tolls, fuel, insurance, winter or heat risk, and unpaid commute time in the offer model.

For Syracuse, the feasibility review starts with the geography: Use the Syracuse metro with Onondaga County as the core. Preserve downtown, University Hill, DeWitt, Liverpool, Cicero/Clay and the airport or logistics corridor. The transport test is equally direct: Centro serves central corridors. Clay, DeWitt and defense or manufacturing sites may require a car, particularly for early shifts or secure facilities. The access test is: The semiconductor story is partly forward-looking. Separate current supplier, construction, engineering and university work from positions that depend on future facility phases. A student should complete all three checks before investing heavily in an application, because a technically suitable role can still fail on commute, housing, schedule, or eligibility.

This project classifies the market as lower-cost relative to the largest coastal internship hubs. That is a budgeting category, not a quoted rent statistic. Students should still price a furnished room, security deposit, utilities, parking, commuting, and any gap between lease dates. In lower-cost markets, transportation can replace housing as the main hidden expense because many plants, bases, hospitals, and suburban campuses are car-oriented.

No citywide intern wage is published here. Compensation varies by occupation, academic level, employer, worksite, overtime status, and bargaining or regulatory context. Use this order of evidence:

• written recruiter or offer documentation;
• Historical example · 2026-09-04
  historical or employee-reported data, labeled as secondary and dated;
• occupation-level metropolitan wage data as context only.

Build a weekly and full-program budget. Include after-tax pay, overtime only when the role confirms it, relocation payments and tax treatment, housing, utilities, deposits, furniture, travel, duplicate rent, parking or transit, vehicle costs, food, professional clothing, licensing or screening expenses, and an emergency reserve. Compare offers using net cash and learning value, not annualized salary.

The semiconductor story is partly forward-looking. Separate current supplier, construction, engineering and university work from positions that depend on future facility phases.

A role labeled hybrid is usually tied to a named office and required attendance pattern; it is not remote-anywhere permission. A virtual interview is not evidence of a remote internship. For plants, hospitals, laboratories, bases, ports, airports, mines, construction sites, and field assignments, ask about onboarding lead time and every access condition before committing to housing.

Record these fields independently:

• present work authorization;
• future sponsorship;
• citizenship;
• export-control eligibility;
• security clearance or suitability;
• background and drug screening;
• driver's license, vehicle, and travel;
• clinical, laboratory, or professional credentials;
• physical, PPE, shift, and safety requirements;
• academic credit or enrollment requirements.

Silence means unknown, not no.

This boundary should be enforced in both the page and the underlying role database. Store the actual city, state, office or facility, employer, and commute node. Do not use a broad metro tag to hide cross-state employment, a remote field site, a military installation, a plant outside the core, or an affiliated company with separate hiring.

Dated role · 2026-09-04
The names below are research targets, not verified current openings. Use each employer's official site and preserve the direct requisition.

• SUNY Upstate Medical University
• Syracuse University
• Lockheed Martin
• SRC
• National Grid
• JMA Wireless
• Micron project ecosystem

A good search also includes suppliers, smaller local firms, public authorities, hospitals, university centers, venture-backed companies, nonprofits, professional-services offices, and project contractors. Those organizations often hire later or through campus relationships, but they should not be invented from a general industry list. Every employer belongs in the page only after identity and local presence are confirmed.

Local opportunity surface: Semiconductors and electronics · Representative student work: process, equipment, electrical, hardware, materials, test, product, quality, manufacturing, software, supply chain, and finance · Likely majors: electrical, computer, materials, chemical, mechanical, industrial engineering, physics, chemistry, computer science, and supply chain · Strong proof asset: A chip-design or electronics project, cleanroom experiment, test automation, PCB, yield analysis, process DOE, or hardware debug report. · Main caution: Cleanrooms, shifts, export controls, specialized degree windows, and fixed on-site work are common. Fab, equipment, design, and supplier roles differ.

Local opportunity surface: Aerospace and defense · Representative student work: systems, mechanical, electrical, software, cyber, test, integration, program controls, supply chain, contracts, finance, quality, manufacturing, and mission operations · Likely majors: aerospace, mechanical, electrical, computer, systems, industrial, software, cybersecurity, physics, math, finance, accounting, and supply chain · Strong proof asset: A design-review package, test plan and results, requirements traceability matrix, controls project, embedded-system demo, cost/schedule analysis, or technical failure investigation. · Main caution: Citizenship, export-control eligibility, clearance, suitability, secure-facility access, and government-contract rules are role-specific and can be hard gates.

Local opportunity surface: Uncrewed and autonomous systems · Representative student work: airframe, controls, autonomy, embedded software, sensing, test, mission systems, manufacturing, operations, and regulatory support · Likely majors: aerospace, mechanical, electrical, computer, software, robotics, systems, physics, and aviation · Strong proof asset: A drone or autonomous platform, flight-test plan, controls project, perception stack, safety case, or mission analysis. · Main caution: FAA rules, flight testing, export controls, secure programs, field travel, and safety constraints can be material.

Local opportunity surface: Healthcare and medical technology · Representative student work: clinical operations, health administration, data, finance, product, research, quality, regulatory, biomedical engineering, supply chain, and patient access · Likely majors: public health, healthcare administration, biology, biomedical engineering, nursing, finance, accounting, MIS, data science, and supply chain · Strong proof asset: A patient-flow study, device prototype, quality or regulatory memo, utilization analysis, clinical research dataset, or revenue-cycle improvement. · Main caution: Provider, payer, device, pharma, research, and public-health roles differ. Clinical access, vaccinations, background checks, and credentials may apply.

Local opportunity surface: Education and research · Representative student work: laboratory research, research administration, data analysis, teaching support, technology transfer, program evaluation, finance, policy, and campus operations · Likely majors: all majors depending on lab or function; especially sciences, engineering, education, public policy, statistics, finance, and communications · Strong proof asset: A research poster, reproducible analysis, literature review, lab protocol, evaluation design, grant-support memo, or technology-transfer market assessment. · Main caution: Faculty labs, university administration, affiliated hospitals, and research centers use different funding and hiring processes. Some roles are grant- or project-dependent.

Local opportunity surface: Energy and utilities · Representative student work: power systems, grid planning, generation, renewables, regulatory, trading, finance, customer programs, field operations, data, and cybersecurity · Likely majors: electrical, mechanical, civil, environmental, energy systems, economics, finance, public policy, MIS, and data science · Strong proof asset: A load forecast, power-flow model, rate-case analysis, renewable project model, reliability dashboard, market memo, or customer-program evaluation. · Main caution: Utility, generation, pipeline, retail energy, and regulator roles are different. Nuclear, field, storm, shift, and site-access requirements are role-specific.

Local opportunity surface: Logistics and transportation · Representative student work: network planning, operations, industrial engineering, procurement, fleet, warehousing, data, finance, safety, and customer solutions · Likely majors: supply chain, industrial engineering, operations, data analytics, finance, economics, MIS, and mechanical engineering · Strong proof asset: A network optimization, warehouse-flow study, demand or volume forecast, fleet-cost model, routing analysis, or service-level dashboard. · Main caution: Corporate planning, warehouse, hub, terminal, fleet, and driver-facing roles differ. Shifts, physical work, and remote sites may apply.

Local opportunity surface: Technology and data · Representative student work: software, data engineering, analytics, product, cloud, IT, AI, cybersecurity, implementation, business systems, and technical operations · Likely majors: computer science, MIS, data science, math, statistics, engineering, economics, finance, and product-related disciplines · Strong proof asset: A deployed application, clean repository, data pipeline, SQL analysis, experiment, product requirements document, dashboard, or automation with a real user. · Main caution: A local technology office may focus on sales, support, operations, or infrastructure rather than product engineering. The direct team and work product control.

Syracuse should be treated as a portfolio of work nodes rather than one interchangeable labor market. The first-pass target set spans Downtown and Armory Square, University Hill and medical corridor, DeWitt and East Syracuse technology sites, and Liverpool and north-county offices. The employer portfolio spans SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse University, Lockheed Martin, SRC, National Grid, and JMA Wireless. A student should distribute applications across several employer types so that one early-closing program, clearance barrier, or weak local hiring cycle does not eliminate the whole search.

• "Syracuse" internship "Semiconductors and electronics"
• "Syracuse" co-op "Aerospace and defense"
• "Syracuse" student analyst "Uncrewed and autonomous systems"
• "SUNY Upstate Medical University" internship "Syracuse"
• "Syracuse University" internship "Syracuse"
• "Lockheed Martin" internship "Syracuse"
• "SRC" internship "Syracuse"
• "National Grid" internship "Syracuse"
• "Syracuse University" internship career fair "Syracuse"
• "SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry" internship career fair "Syracuse"
• "Le Moyne College" internship career fair "Syracuse"

• Access to Semiconductors and electronics, Aerospace and defense, Uncrewed and autonomous systems, Healthcare and medical technology, and Education and research.
• A defined set of research targets: SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse University, Lockheed Martin, SRC, National Grid, and JMA Wireless.
• Campus and talent channels through Syracuse University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Le Moyne College, and SUNY Upstate Medical University.
• The chance to build city-specific knowledge rather than compete only through national generalist applications.

Local matches: Semiconductors and electronics, Aerospace and defense, Uncrewed and autonomous systems, and Energy and utilities. Target the physical system, facility, product, or project. Put one technically deep example near the top of the résumé and show requirements, constraints, method, measurements, result, and safety judgment. Search by discipline and asset, not only by the word intern.

• a major employer opens a new student cycle;
• a direct role changes state or deadline;
• a company opens, closes, moves, sells, or materially restructures a local operation;
• a new transit service changes a practical commute;
• a new official wage, housing, or economic dataset is released;
• an employer changes sponsorship, work-mode, relocation, or screening terms;
• a reviewer finds a geographic or legal-employer collision.

• Current opening and closing dates by employer and function.
• Current compensation, overtime treatment, bonus, housing, and relocation.
• Current work mode and required office days.
• Current graduation, GPA, major, authorization, sponsorship, citizenship, and clearance rules.
• Intern-to-return-intern or intern-to-full-time conversion rate.
• Current housing price and availability near each work node.

Start with a role family in the local employer map, then narrow by the actual reporting site. Save the employer-controlled posting before treating a name on this page as an opportunity. For each viable role, compare the work, enrollment requirements, stated compensation unit and the cost of reaching that site. A regional employer list is not a verified vacancy list.

Historical example · 2026-09-04
Use the local transport and housing sources for the schedule you would actually work. Keep a quote for the correct dates and a cash plan for deposits or costs due before the first paycheck; historical housing figures in the research are not current offers.

Syracuse is a strong emerging target for defense electronics, uncrewed systems, health, energy and semiconductor-adjacent work, provided students distinguish today's openings from future investment narratives.