This Post Is Intended For Students Seeking A Summer 2025 Internship Attending The 2024 Swe Conference

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Careers That Change Lives 

The possibilities at the intersection of medicine and technology are endless, which means endless opportunities to make your mark on the world. Our interns do real work within experienced engineering teams to improve lives of millions. With the support of your manager and guidance of your team you can: 

• Responsible for production support engineering, including testing methods, procedures, and problems; device specification and yield problems; minor redesign of devices and masks; analysis of customer returns; supplier related engineering changes and optimizing device production relative to cost constraints. 
• Assist customers in device usage problems or testing complex devices. 
• Assumes responsibility for device and/or internally produced or externally purchased components after transfer into high-volume production and usually responsible for entire device manufacturing operations other than wafer fabrication. 
• Get real world experience on a project you own.  
• Build your confidence and skills at the world leader.  
• Enhance and expand your professional and social network. 
• Given opportunities to participate in various events for your development and engagement such as leadership workshops, panels, trainings, and more! 

You have learned a lot to get here — we want you to keep growing. With our expanding portfolio of innovative products and services, Medtronic is the global leader in delivering healthcare solutions for over 70+ disease states in 150+ countries. 

Internships are full-time (40 hours/week), paid positions that are 11-12 weeks in length. We offer competitive pay, housing assistance (for out-of-state interns) with relocation expense reimbursement, a transportation stipend, and educational and social events throughout the summer. We have summer internship opportunities across the U.S., including positions in Minnesota, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Arizona, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Florida. 

Qualifications - External

Must Haves:  

To be considered for a summer 2025 engineering internship, you must meet the following basic requirements. How you meet these criteria must be clearly indicated on your resume to be considered for a position. 

• Bachelor’s degree student with a sophomore or junior level class standing 
• Must be registered to attend the SWE 2024 Career Fair this October 2024
• Working towards a bachelor’s degree in an engineering major OR will be attending their first year of their Master's program by Fall of 2025.
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis and does not require sponsorship in the future for an employment visa  
• Participants must be able to participate full time (40 hours/week) as part of our intern cohort:  
• Monday, June 2 - Friday, August 15  *Exception to these dates are possible only for students enrolled at schools that follow the quarter system 

 

Nice to Haves: 

• Knowledge of one or more of the following technologies: Python, C/C++ and/or C#, CAD: SolidWorks/Autocad or equivalent, Minitab, and/or MATLAB 
• Prior work on projects in a team environment  
• Relevant academic project, internship, or lab experience  
• Technical writing skills 
• A minimum 3.0 out of a 4.0 cumulative GPA 
• Flexibility in geographic location
• Experience with statistics, data analysis, mechanical or electrical design, Design of Experiments (DoE), and/or clean room  
• Knowledge of polymer, plastics and metallics  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills who is curious, a problem solver, and a self-starter 
• Experience with Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM) and mechanical or electrical design  
• A team player with strong written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail who is a fast learner 

 

Physical Job Requirements: 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. 

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$24.00-$38.00

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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