Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering Design Internship

POSITION DESCRIPTION:  The possibilities at the intersection of medicine and technology are endless, which means endless opportunities to make your mark on the world.  This is a summer opportunity for students to partner with our talented engineers and scientists on real-projects in a collaborative environment to design, develop, test, and verify the design of implantable medical devices and systems with increasing responsibility.   

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:  Support programs by providing useful and relevant inputs that enable design highly reliable products and procedures.  Work with their key partners to provide relevant information about pre-clinical and/or clinical use conditions of our products that feed efforts in design, testing, numerical modeling, and procedure development.  This will involve close collaboration with fellow team members and stakeholders.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:  

• Enrolled in a Biomedical Engineering (medical device design emphasis or program with similar curriculum)  or Mechanical Engineering program  
• GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale;
• Completion of sophomore (2nd) year and admission into upper division
• US work authorization is required.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Working towards a degree in Biomedical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• Familiarity in some of the following depending on position: medical image analysis software (e.g. Mimics); CAD or FEA; algorithm/code scripting; statistics; mechanical design; anatomy/physiology.
• Strong written and oral communication skills;
• Works well in a team environment.
• Demonstration of leadership, teamwork, communication and mechanical aptitude through work experience, school projects, extracurricular activities or non-engineering work experience.

QUESTIONS:  

Please reach out via handshake or via Email to Amanda Strauss amanda.strauss@medtronic.com.