Summer 2026 UI/UX Intern

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Mission Statement:

Our mission is to fuel today's innovations and spark tomorrow's creativity. Together, we embrace a growth mindset, empower one another, and collaborate to achieve our shared goals. Every day, we live by our values of Integrity, Excellence, Leadership, and Passion, fostering an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive-both at work and beyond.

The UI/UX Design Intern on the Discovery Features team creates easy and delightful experiences for users interacting with Ansys products and services. The UI/UX Design Intern assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, implements the established design from the User Experience Team (UX Team) to produce a visually detailed implementation that is both feature rich and performs well with real world models. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Understand the basics of the User Centered Design approach taken by User Experience (UX) designers at Synopsys

• Have an expectation/willingness to iteratively develop on features/designs in code

• Demonstrate a strong ability to work collaboratively with designers to generate controls based on designs

• Performs simple bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products. Research and investigate issues discovered by QA or product support feedback.

• Works under the supervision and alongside UX and UI developers to implement given designs.

• Actively participates in design brainstorming sessions and team meetings

• Judges importance of, responds to, and prioritizes UX-focused software problems

• Participate in and collaborate with other development, documentation, and testing professionals in all phases of the software development life cycle

What You'll Need:

• Pursing a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science, or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI or related field)

• Working experience with C# or another appropriate object oriented programming language

• Is detail-oriented and utilizes highly developed organizational skills including the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines

• Understanding of the software development process and ability to communicate well with software development team

• Strong team player who thrives in an open and collaborative environment

• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team

• Technical knowledge and experience with a UI Framework, such as WPF, including the creation of custom controls based on original designs

• Particular Experience with:

  • Modeling and simulation applications:
  • Tools & technologies for UI implementation:
  • Testing frameworks that can perform UI, Unit and integration tests on user interface components

• Ability to:

  • Smoothly iterate on designs, taking direction, adjusting, and re-focusing towards a converged design

  • Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc.

  • Prototype rapidly using any tools available

Key Program Facts:

• Program Length: 12 weeks

• Working Model: Onsite, Canonsburg office

• Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time

• Start Date: May 2026

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.

In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.