The Role
Assist quality engineers with manufacturing processes, conduct testing, analyze data, and support production issue resolutions to enhance patient safety.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Title: Quality Engineer Intern
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices, on-site & full-time. Imperative Care does not provide relocation or additional housing compensation for the summer internship.
Why Imperative Care?
Do you want to make a real impact on patients? Imperative Care is a medical technology company redefining thrombus management. Every day, the technologies that we advance at Imperative Care directly impact people, and as part of our team, you’ll be developing breakthroughs that will benefit patients across the care continuum. Innovation, data, and secure digital platforms are critical to our mission, and the IT organization plays a key role in enabling scale, compliance, and speed across the enterprise.
What You’ll Do
This intern will assist quality engineers on manufacturing processes and controls to be used on the production line and help troubleshoot manufacturing issues to mitigate patient risk.
What You’ll Bring
Imperative Care provides an opportunity for students to work in the dynamic medical device industry and gain valuable hands-on experience with state-of-the-art equipment, instruments, and facilities. Our internship program is designed to give interns foundational experience and exposure to a variety of roles and areas of focus to help prepare them for a career in medtech. This program also offers ongoing networking, learning and professional development opportunities, mentorship from executive leadership, social activities and peer-to-peer interaction.
Join Us! Apply Today.
Salary: $29/hourly for 10 week internship
Location: This position is based in our Campbell, California offices, on-site & full-time. Imperative Care does not provide relocation or additional housing compensation for the summer internship.
Why Imperative Care?
Do you want to make a real impact on patients? Imperative Care is a medical technology company redefining thrombus management. Every day, the technologies that we advance at Imperative Care directly impact people, and as part of our team, you’ll be developing breakthroughs that will benefit patients across the care continuum. Innovation, data, and secure digital platforms are critical to our mission, and the IT organization plays a key role in enabling scale, compliance, and speed across the enterprise.
What You’ll Do
This intern will assist quality engineers on manufacturing processes and controls to be used on the production line and help troubleshoot manufacturing issues to mitigate patient risk.
- Support Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility studies to assess measurement system variation.
- Analyze supplier data using statistical process control techniques.
- Conduct engineering build and testing to verify process outputs.
- Perform destructive tensile testing to understand and document failure modes and mechanisms.
- Support issue resolution for production and assembly including root cause investigation and corrective action tracking.
- Apply technical knowledge to innovate, design and develop processes, and procedures.
- Organize and analyze data sets that outline the systemic improvement opportunities.
- Support general documentation activities such as proof reading, formatting, and revision
What You’ll Bring
- Currently have or in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering field (e.g. Bioengineering, Material Engineering, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering)
- Strong understanding of engineering principals
- Strong analytical and statistical knowledge
- Knowledge in data querying and manipulation a plus
- Ability to work independently or in a team setting required.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft office products.
- Good interpersonal skills, effective interaction with operations and other departments
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in machine shop (lathe/milling machine) is a plus.
Imperative Care provides an opportunity for students to work in the dynamic medical device industry and gain valuable hands-on experience with state-of-the-art equipment, instruments, and facilities. Our internship program is designed to give interns foundational experience and exposure to a variety of roles and areas of focus to help prepare them for a career in medtech. This program also offers ongoing networking, learning and professional development opportunities, mentorship from executive leadership, social activities and peer-to-peer interaction.
Join Us! Apply Today.
Salary: $29/hourly for 10 week internship
Skills Required
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering field
- Strong understanding of engineering principles
- Strong analytical and statistical knowledge
- Computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office products
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently or in a team setting
- Knowledge in data querying and manipulation
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in machine shop (lathe/milling machine)
Imperative Care Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Imperative Care and has not been reviewed or approved by Imperative Care.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Posted salary bands for multiple roles are explicit and compare favorably to U.S. norms in several functions. Publicly listed ranges help anchor expectations and indicate a market‑competitive stance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are consistently included as part of offers and total rewards. Equity is positioned as a meaningful component alongside base pay and, in some roles, bonus.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Company materials highlight generous PTO and a parental leave program as standard benefits. Multiple postings reiterate these time‑off elements across roles.
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The Company
What We Do
Imperative Care is a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company focused on developing the next generation of innovative solutions to address the vast and urgent needs in stroke intervention and peripheral thrombectomy. With a physician-driven approach and a culture of rapid innovation, we are working to improve every aspect of the stroke procedure with the goal of bringing patients the best care possible. We have two 510(k) cleared product platforms, as well as an expansive technology development pipeline. Follow us for updates as we work to change the way stroke is treated. For important safety and risk information, visit bit.ly/3yWkfEJ.
