Electrical Engineering Summer Internship (Architecture)

About Us

Founded in 1908, Merz is a successful, family-owned specialty healthcare company with a rich history. As a leading global aesthetics business, our award-winning portfolio of injectables, devices, and skincare products empowers healthcare professionals to enhance confidence through aesthetic medicine. Our purpose is to fuel confidence by helping people look better, feel better, and live better. We believe you do not have to choose between living life and making a living. Live your best life with Merz Aesthetics.

A Brief Overview

The internship is a hands-on role within the R&D Hardware Engineering group helping to develop and evaluate Energy Based Devices that provide ultrasonic therapy. The expectation is that the intern will support the current engineering teams with projects and tasks related to testing electronic designs, creating electrical test fixtures, reviewing component specifications for existing and new designs. This may include building new and existing products on the pilot line, performing bench testing, recording data, writing test plans and reports.

The internship may provide the opportunities to run independent projects, design and/or modify designs, build the Bill of Materials (BOM) for ordering, and specify and design fixtures needed for testing; fixtures and other parts that may be 3D printed, machined in-house, or sent to suppliers for R&D use

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist in assembly of Merz transducers
• Testing and design of various, test fixtures for prototype and design verification testing
• Collect, tabulate, and analyze data, as well as communicate experimental setup and results to technical staff.
• Support engineering in other duties, such as running testing, writing specifications, test plans, and test reports.

Education (Preferred Majors)

• Required:
  • Rising Junior & Rising Senior in a Bachelor's Degree (in Electrical Engineer Majors)
• Preferred:
  • Currently enrolled in a graduate Electrical Engineer program

Minimum Qualifications

• Required:
  • Course work in electronics
  • Experience with benchtop and handheld electronic measurement equipment
  • Ability to perform electro-mechanical assembly
  • Ability to writing test plans and reports documenting findings
  • Ability to work in a team environment and work independently as required
• Preferred:
  • Experience with Analog/RF design
  • Experience with Altium PCB Design Software
  • Experience driving projects to completion

 Additional Information

• Program Length:
  • 10-Week Program (Projected Dates: June 2, 2025 to August 7, 2025)
• Location: 
  • Raleigh NC - Weekly Hybrid Schedule (3-Days  WFO - 2Days WFH)

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Research and Development