Manufacturing Engineering Summer Intern
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Level
Internship
Department
MedTech
Type
Salary
$41,000 - $52,000
Job Description
Posted on:
2026-04-18
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering) to support process changes and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Design or modify fixtures and order parts.
- Develop, characterize, and optimize process parameters using statistical techniques.
- Write test protocols, execute studies, and document results in test reports.
- Perform Test Method Validations, Gage R&Rs, and other manufacturing studies as needed.
- Capture document changes through the DCO (Document Change Order) process in a Quality Management System (QMS).
- Plan, schedule, and coordinate part of a project or a total project with a final project presentation.
Job Requirements
- Undergraduate full-time student with at least 2 years completed, pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, or similar.
- Comfortable working in a cleanroom environment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
- Excellent verbal communication and technical writing skills.
- Ability to operate independently and in a team.
- Self-motivated, action-oriented, and result-oriented.
- Familiarity with FDA Regulations, CAD (SolidWorks), and statistical software (R, Minitab, JMP) is a plus.
