Summer 2026 TFS D&T/Software Engineering Internship

Overview

Who we are

An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company – delivering on Toyota’s vision to move people beyond what’s possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.

To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.  

College Programs Overview:  

Toyota’s 12-week internship and co-op program is designed to build a strong talent pipeline by providing university students with meaningful, hands-on experience that can lead to future full-time employment. From day one, interns are empowered to make a real impact—taking ownership of projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing innovative ideas. Whether you're working at our North American headquarters, R&D centers, manufacturing plants, or field offices, you'll be immersed in a dynamic environment that fosters growth, creativity, and professional development.

Locations Available

• Toyota Headquarters - Plano, TX

TFS is looking for qualified students to fill Summer 2026 Internship positions in Software Engineering including:

• Cloud Engineering

• Data Engineering

• DevOps Engineering

• Full Stack/Development Engineering

• Machine Learning/AI Engineering

• Site Reliability Engineering

• Test Automation (QA) Engineering

• UI/Front End Engineering

What you’ll be doing  

• Project Support and Execution: Assist with ongoing projects by contributing to planning, research, and execution. The projects vary depending on the field. 

• Develop Technical and Analytical Skills: Gain proficiency in tools and technologies used at Toyota such as programing languages, data visualization platforms, or manufacturing systems. 

• Networking and collaboration: Grow professional network through participating in team meetings and communicating cross-functionally with engineering, IT, manufacturing, and business units.

• Process Improvement and Innovation: Interns are encouraged to observe current practices and suggest improvements. This may include observing workflows, identifying inefficiencies, proposing new methods, or supporting implementation.

• Past projects have included but limited to:

  • Building new system to help dealers including building new APIs, building new user interface, and deploy the application in public cloud.

  • Enable and track project adoption through Github app.

  • Evaluate local stack setup to simplify local development / testing of cloud native solutions and microservices architectures.

  • Build out “Cloud Visibility Dashboards” to visualize cloud spend, inventory, and health metrics that will be consumed by key stakeholders.                                                                                                     

  • Build a configurable utility to assess query performance, identify opportunities for improvement and address cost within Snowflake. Enable service to plug into other tools to provide this feedback via IDEs for users.                                                                                                                                      

Required Qualifications 

• Must be 18 years of age or older 

• Must have reliable transportation 

• Must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota sponsorship for immigration-related employment (including, but not limited to, H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, or F-1 OPT extension) now or in the future 

• Minimum GPA of 2.7 or higher 

• Must have completed at least one full academic year at a two- or four-year college or university post-high school (sophomore standing or above) 

• Currently enrolled in a full-time, accredited degree program (this includes both two-year and four-year colleges) studying in a STEM discipline or related field such as: 

  • Computer Science

  • Computer Engineering

  • Software Engineering

  • Information Technology Systems

Additional Requirements applicable to various disciplines

• Familiarity with languages like Java, C++, and Python, as well as distributed and cloud-based technologies

• Hands-on development experience in distributed, analytical, cloud-based and open-source technologies

• Strong analytical and critical thinking competency

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to [email protected].