Graduate Engineering Intern - Quality
Employer not yet confirmed · Rochester, Minnesota, United States
This graduate internship is a full-time position Summer-Fall 2027 (May or June through December) on site in Rochester, Minnesota.
Join a team where development engineering intersects with world-class healthcare delivery and research. The Division of Engineering designs and implements innovative solutions for a wide variety of priorities at Mayo Clinic. We are a unique resource for a healthcare institution, and one that helps Mayo Clinic maintain its #1 rating in the country for healthcare delivery.
We seek a highly qualified graduate student in engineering or a quality related field to assist our quality engineer with tasks such as: maintaining our current quality management system (QMS), writing QMS documents for patient-matched 3D printed titanium implants, design verification and validation activities, process validation, and acceptance testing.
The primary purpose of the Graduate Engineer Internship is to provide a graduate engineering student with relevant engineering experiences. One or more mentors will be assigned to the intern to provide instruction and guidance and to assess performance. The intern is responsible for learning the procedures and processes of the Division of Engineering and the assigned work unit. In addition, the intern will be given selected engineering work assignments to reinforce the learning experience and to provide benefit to the work unit. The engineering assignments may include gathering user needs, documenting requirements and specifications, performing design verification and design validation activities, troubleshooting, and participating in design reviews. All assignments are within the context of the Division of Engineering Quality Management System (including safety risk management) and are performed in a multi-disciplinary development environment. The intern will be responsible for completing all internship-related assignments and reports for both Mayo Clinic and the participating educational institution (if applicable).
The incumbent must have received a bachelor of science in engineering from an accredited college or university and be enrolled in or intending to enroll in a graduate degree program.
Additional Qualifications
The successful candidate will have excellent communication and time management skills. They will have interest in medical device development. They will have interest/exposure to areas of device safety, quality management, and FDA medical device regulation.
The candidate must be able to work independently. They should be able to discuss past successes in an environment where work was ambiguous and day-to-day tasks not always well-defined.
***To be considered for this position please attach the following to your application:
- Undergraduate Transcript
- Current Transcript
- Resume or CV
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to include a Cover Letter