Fall 2025 Mechanical Engineering Intern - Innovation and R&D Testing

Overview

Midea America Corp., is one of the world’s largest home appliance brands, offering the most comprehensive selection of products in the world to fully serve the needs of day-to-day living at home, at work, or anywhere else you go. In North America we strive to aim high, put the customer first, transform and innovate the marketplace, utilizing our commitment, dedication, inclusion, and partnership with our teams. Midea America is a subsidiary of the Midea Group, a global company with over 150,000 employees and operations in more than 195 countries. As a publicly listed company, we are ranked #245 as a Fortune Global 500 company and offer one of the most comprehensive product portfolios in the industry.

As a co-op, you will be working alongside our experts and engineers to further Midea innovation. We offer three co-op rotations each year—spring, summer, and fall—in accordance with the typical university schedule. We are looking for mechanical engineer or, if qualified, aerospace engineers to fill our mechanical engineering roles. 

Summary of Position

As the key role for introducing new US product platforms, the Mechanical Design Engineer Co-op will join a team of experts meeting the needs of the consumer American Consumer in one of our various departments. The Co-op will work on product development of new and innovative features for integration into a US product line. The Co-op will support the development of new technologies and designs which provide market-leading performance and consumer acceptance. The Co-op will also have the opportunity to assist in the development of Midea’s US patent portfolio development, as well as actively working on individual part design, prototyping, and a wide variety of laboratory work in proving out conceptual designs.

Qualifications

• Self-driven/Intrinsically motivated
• Strong communication skills
• Goal-oriented
• Proficiency in Solidworks
• Prototyping experience
• Foundational knowledge in testing procedures 
• Lab experience

Preferred Qualifications 

• Procedural documentation experience 
• Foundational programming knowledge (preferably in Python, C/C++)

*** This role is for our Innovation team, which focuses on a variety of innovation projects for various product departments.