Summer/Fall 2025 Intern
Drizzle Health is hiring Interns!
We’re looking for students interested in building risky cutting edge tools to solve wicked global health problems, and have a background in Materials/Polymer/Chemical engineering!
Description of the Opportunity
As our Summer 2025 intern, you’ll help us build out the revolutionary MagnaFlow line of products! You will be part of the polymer optimization team and will be helping the development of the MagnaSlide and MagnaFlow products through theorizing, design and conducting of experiments for MagnaFlow, in order to meet customer spec. MagnaSlide is a polymer-based system that selectively captures and concentrates pathogens, including TB-causing mycobacteria. MagnaFlow is millifludic system that enables pathogen capture for large-scale food and water safety testing.
Who We Are
Drizzle Health is bringing innovative diagnostic and sample preparation tools for bacterial epidemics such as Tuberculosis (TB) to high-burden markets. Powered by our low-cost tools, communities worldwide will be able to test people and the foods and environments we encounter, for bacteria, economically sustainably! We’re in the 21st century. Nobody should be getting sick from infectious disease.
Who You Are
- You have experience with prototyping. Students pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering design, or a related field.
- You’re relentlessly curious. One of your favorite words is “Why?” You aren’t intimidated by tough topics that others are shy to tackle, and like finding answers beyond doubt.
- You are agile. We are building the plane as we fly it. This means that not all work tasks will be well-defined before you start them. Be willing to take initiative and ownership of tasks that are required to GSD (Get Sh*t Done).
- Bonus. If you’re a hardcore MechE (or have that experience) or have done the NSF i-corps (national stage) before!
Your Responsibilities
Work within a 4 member team to:
- Conduct Polymer optimization experiments
- Work in a 3-person team to design and conduct experiments to create new polymer surfaces
- Test and verify surfaces with different microorganisms
- Documentation
- Prototyping
- You will be working on MagnaFlow designs and prototyping to ensure product design are attuned to customer requirement. This may include CFD simulations.
Perks
Long hours, unlimited beer. If a patent or publication comes out of your contribution, your name will be on it, and we’ll tell the world about it. You’ll be compensated at $30/hr for upto 20 hours/week. No healthcare/benefits will be provided.
How to Apply
If you’re interested, please send over your 1-page resume and answers to the following questions to info@drizzlehealth.com before the 21st of June, 2025
- Write 100 words or more about something that matters.
- How is this internship going to help you with your next goals/milestones or life?