Intern, Innovation - Advanced Technology

Edwards offers its university talent an opportunity to create innovative, life saving devices and techniques that help physicians provide better opportunities for patients around the world. As a global leader in treating advanced cardiovascular disease, we know that millions of people benefit from our passion, our focus, and our innovation.
Key Responsibilities:

• This program provides the opportunity to work with the Advanced Technology (AT) innovation team and and make meaningful impact through challenging projects.

• Vet, validate, and refine unmet clinical needs and new product opportunities through synthesis of primary and secondary research.

• Contribute to clinical development strategy, rationalizing clinical and mechanistic endpoints needed to demonstrate at each milestone

• Contribute to understanding of commercial viability of new product/market opportunities, including but not limited to analysis of population/market size, risk vs. benefit, value proposition, positioning in patient care path, competitive landscape, reimbursement/pricing, etc

• Support identification of technical feasibility questions and de-risking of early-stage device concepts, including prototyping, bench testing, and computational simulation.

Education and Experience:

• PhD in BioMedical Engineering / BioDesign or Doctorate of Medicine

Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled in an accredited 4-year university throughout the duration of the internship, graduating Dec 2025 or later.

• Must be in good scholastic standing (3.0+ GPA or equivalent on a 4.0 scale).

• Must not require company sponsorship for an employment-based visa now or in the future.

Additional Skills:

• Comfortable working in laboratory environment. Hands-on and highly motivated. Able to follow procedures, perform testing and clearly convey data results.

• Strong interest in pursuing relevant industry experience. Interest in the healthcare and medical devices industry is a plus.

• Attention to detail.

• Provide documentation support and complete written reports.

• Experience conducting scientific literature review and synthesis.

• Experience conducting informational interviews with clinicians (i.e. key opinion leaders), patients, and other stakeholders

• Ability to synthesize a variety of research sources to inform development and refinement of a business case.

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $54,000 to $72,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.