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
We are seeking a motivated Electrical Engineering Summer Intern to join our Medical Device R&D team. The intern will support design and development activities, contribute to prototype build and evaluation, perform electrical and functional testing, and document results in clear technical reports. This role offers hands-on experience in medical device development within a collaborative, regulated R&D environment.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist with electrical design activities, including schematics, component selection, and design updates.
- Support development and assembly of prototype medical device hardware.
- Perform electrical, functional, and performance testing of prototype designs.
- Set up and operate test equipment; collect and analyze test data.
- Document test methods, results, and conclusions in technical reports.
- Troubleshoot and help resolve design or test issues under engineer guidance.
- Maintain organized design files, test records, and documentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional R&D team members (mechanical, software, quality).
- Follow applicable safety, quality, and regulatory requirements during development and testing.
Minimum Requirements
- Basic knowledge of electrical design principles and familiarity with schematic capture tools or circuit simulation software (from classes or projects).
- Hands-on experience through labs or projects in building and testing electrical systems, with the ability to document results clearly.
Education
Minimum Requirements:
- Currently enrolled as a rising junior or senior at an accredited college or university.
- Pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Preferred Requirements:
- Pursuing a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering.
Additional Information
Program Length:
- 11-week program (Projected Dates: June 1, 2026 – August 13, 2026)
Location:
- Raleigh, NC
- Weekly Hybrid Schedule: 3 days in the office and 2 days remote
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What We Do
Merz Aesthetics is a medical aesthetics business with a long history of empowering health care professionals, patients and employees to live every day with confidence. We aim to help people around the world look, feel and live like the best versions of themselves — however they define it. Clinically proven, its product portfolio includes injectables, devices and skin care treatments designed to meet each patient’s needs with high standards of safety and efficacy. Being family owned for more than 115 years, Merz Aesthetics is known for building unique connections with customers who feel like family. Merz Aesthetics’ global headquarters is in Raleigh, N.C., USA, with a commercial presence in 90 countries worldwide. It is also a part of Merz Group, which was founded in 1908 and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Learn more at merzaesthetics.com.
