Vertiv Internships 2027: Programs, Pay and How to Apply

Vertiv offers paid summer internships and six-month engineering co-ops open to students in electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering, computer science, marketing, procurement, business administration, finance and accounting. Because Vertiv designs and manufactures physical infrastructure, a chunk of its roles, and its internships, sit at plant and engineering sites rather than one corporate campus.

Vertiv is a large employer, with tens of thousands of employees across dozens of countries, so the scale of the internship program varies a lot by location and business function. A student searching for a Vertiv internship should expect a more decentralized process than a single-brand tech company runs, with different hiring managers posting and filling roles on their own timeline rather than one unified intern class starting on the same day.

That distinction shapes what an internship actually looks like. An engineering intern might spend time on a manufacturing floor testing power equipment, not just at a desk running simulations, which is a different day-to-day than a typical software internship.

What Vertiv actually does

Vertiv designs and manufactures the power, cooling and IT infrastructure that keeps data centers and communication networks running: uninterruptible power supplies, thermal management systems, rack enclosures and related equipment. It trades on the NYSE under VRT. Demand for its products has climbed alongside AI data center buildouts, since AI racks need denser power and cooling than traditional servers, which shows up in some of its current AI-focused engineering postings.

Internship and co-op tracks

Why Vertiv is hiring more engineers right now

Vertiv's business has picked up alongside the AI data center buildout, since AI training and inference racks draw far more power and generate far more heat than a typical server rack, which pushes data center operators toward denser power and liquid cooling systems. Several of Vertiv's current engineering postings reference AI-focused cooling and power work directly, which is a useful signal if you're deciding which engineering track to apply to: the AI infrastructure side of the business is where headcount is actively growing.

That growth also means Vertiv is competing harder for engineering talent against other data center infrastructure companies, which can work in an applicant's favor. If you have coursework or a project involving thermal systems, power electronics or control systems, it's worth calling that out explicitly on your resume rather than assuming a general engineering background speaks for itself.

Don't confuse this with the 18-month rotational program

Vertiv also runs an 18-month early-career rotational program with three six-month rotations across different business functions, but that program is listed on Vertiv's EMEA careers site and built for European final-year students and recent graduates. The US student program is a more standard paid summer internship or six-month co-op, listed separately on Vertiv's US career center. If you're applying from the US, look at the US-specific postings rather than the EMEA rotational program page.

Pay and how to apply

Vertiv's internship pages describe the roles as paid but don't publish a standard rate. Engineering and manufacturing internships at large industrial companies commonly pay hourly, varying by role, site and degree level, so check the specific posting or ask a recruiter for a range rather than assuming a figure. Vertiv directs interested students to email [email protected] or watch its careers portal, and recommends following Vertiv on LinkedIn for opening announcements. As of this guide's last update, ApplyBolt's live board shows open full-time engineering and manufacturing roles at Vertiv but no internship-titled posting.

Because Vertiv posts internships and co-ops across many separate plant and engineering locations rather than one central intern class, it's worth searching its careers portal by both title and city instead of relying on a single "internship" filter to surface everything. A posting at a manufacturing site in Ohio can look completely different from one tied to a data center engineering team, even under a similar job title, so read the location and business unit before assuming what the day-to-day work involves.

For a related defense and industrial internship, see our General Dynamics internships 2027 guide, and for another government-adjacent engineering program, our UCOR internships 2027 guide. Browse more roles in the same field on 2027 hardware engineering internships.