Intern Engineering Automation & Equipment Development

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Join Medtronic’s Engineering Automation and Equipment Development organization and gain hands-on experience in developing manufacturing solutions for life-sustaining cardiac devices. As an intern, you will support real industrial projects focused on resistive welding equipment, automation, and manufacturing system requirements for pacemaker production. This internship offers exposure to equipment development, process engineering, and requirements definition in a highly regulated medical device environment, while working closely with experienced engineers across operations, quality, and R&D teams.

Internship details:
•    Start date: April 2026
•    Location: Tolochenaz, Switzerland 
•    Duration: 6 months 
•    Working hours: Full-time 
•    Work model: on-site presence required 

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
•    Support the development and optimization of resistive welding processes for pacemaker manufacturing
•    Assist in the development of automated equipment, including equipment concept and standard architecture definition
•    Help support sensor integration for process monitoring, control, and data acquisition
•    Assist in the development of User Requirements Specifications (URS) for manufacturing equipment

Required Knowledge and Skills:
•    Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Automation, Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Materials, or Industrial Engineering
•     Fluency in French and English, with strong verbal & written communication skills
•    Basic understanding of industrial automation, manufacturing processes, or engineering documentation
•    Analytical thinking and teamwork

Would be a plus:
•    Interest in medical devices or regulated manufacturing environments
•    Basic knowledge of sensors, vision systems, or industrial equipment

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Pay range: 2000 CHF - 3500 CHF monthly gross (depending on qualifications) 

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here