Intern in Falmouth

As an R&D Intern you will be a part of the product development and engineering department, reporting directly to the R&D Director Product Engineering. Scope of this role includes activities pertaining to sustaining activities, new product development, product upgrades and improvements, line extensions as well as new concept incubation activities. Within the scope of this internship are electro‑mechanical connected systems and devices associated with In‑vitro fertilisation (IVF) and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART).

This Intern will be working on the development of a new product along with other engineers in both Falmouth and the US. The primary project within this Internship will be to design testing to verify the function of the new product, which will include developing the test methods, writing the test protocols, validating the test methods, carrying out the test and writing up the test reports. There will be additional associated tasks that contribute to the successful development of the new product.

Participate in design review and DFMA activities.

Organisational and Process Effectiveness

• Aid in the effective cross‑functional collaboration ensuring timely and efficient delivery of target business outcomes.
• Contribute to the assessment of new opportunities, acquisition targets, competitive products, and Intellectual Properties (IPs) to aid competitiveness and differentiation of our business offerings.
• Support scoping, project planning and product requirement definition for new product development, upgrades, or line extensions as appropriate.
• Contribute to the selection, evaluation, and implementation of new tools, techniques, and best practices to ensure state‑of‑the‑art product development capabilities and best practices.

Safety, Efficacy, and Compliance

• Ensure adherence to medical devices design control compliance by ensuring all applicable safety, quality and regulatory guidelines and policies are followed to develop safe and effective products.
• Maintain technical documentation for project and products as applicable per company quality standards, policies, and procedures as well as engineering best practices and functional excellence requirements.

Travel

This role is site‑based requiring occasional travel relating to cross‑functional meetings, vendor visits, trainings and/or conference attendance.

Qualifications Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Highly proficient in electronic design and creation of engineering drawings (Altium, etc.) – required.
• Medical device development experience with thorough understanding of design control guidelines including verification and validation methods – required.
• Proficiency with engineering first principles and analytical methods including simulation modelling – required.
• Understanding of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) – required.
• Understanding of statistical methods including design of experiments – required.
• Proficiency with developing firmware from initial stage – required.
• Hands‑on craft skills and experience with building, fixing, servicing and/or fabricating concepts, fixtures, prototypes or similar – required.
• Experience in SPI, I2C, CAN buses – preferred.
• Experience with translating customer to product requirements, conducting harm‑based risk analysis and defining acceptance criteria – preferred.
• Experience with FEA and/or simulation mathematical modelling – preferred.
• Experience with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) – preferred.
• Experience in drafting testing protocols and reports – required.
• Experience with identifying latent user needs and front‑end of innovation process – preferred.

Experience

Undertaking a Bachelors or Masters Degree in Electronic, Mechanical or Biomedical.

Education

Minimum of an appropriately relative degree and a desire to learn.

Work Environment

Prolonged sitting in front of a computer. Hands‑on work in engineering lab (testing, etc).