Summer 2025 R&D Engineer Student 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!  Our student interns do real work within experienced engineering teams to improve lives of millions.  This is a summer opportunity for students to work closely with talented engineers and scientists in a team-based environment to design, develop, test, and verify the design of 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.      

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Working towards a degree in Biomedical Engineering (with medical device design emphasis or similar) or Mechanical Engineering. 
• Experience with medical image analysis software (e.g. Mimics, 3mensio, 3D slicer)
• Experience in the following CAD; coding and/or scripting; statistics; mechanical design; anatomy/physiology. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills 
• Demonstration of leadership, teamwork, communication and mechanical aptitude through school projects, extracurricular activities or non-engineering work experience.       

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:  

• 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
• Please note this is an onsite position in Mounds View, MN with no relocation stipend

QUESTIONS:  Please contact Sam Kohnle at samantha.r.kohnle@medtronic.com