About the role#
This full-time graduate internship provides engineering experience within the Division of Engineering. You will work with mentors who provide instruction and guidance on assigned projects. The role supports electrical engineering development for physiological sensing, monitoring, and therapeutic technologies. You will contribute to low-power, battery-powered, and wirelessly connected medical device prototypes while working on specific components or subsystems within a broader modular platform.
What you'll do#
- Learn the procedures and processes of the Division of Engineering and your assigned work unit.
- Design components and develop project strategies.
- Gather user needs, requirements, and specifications.
- Evaluate commercial components and perform design verification and validation.
- Assemble prototype systems and participate in design reviews.
- Assist with analog and digital circuit design, simulation, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
- Assemble, bring up, debug, and test electronic prototypes, and document measurements.
- Support sensor interfaces, signal acquisition, power-management circuits, or wireless-module integration.
- Support the integration of electronics hardware, firmware, and software.
- Characterize signal quality, power consumption, battery-powered operating modes, or wireless performance.
What you'll need#
- A bachelor of science in electrical engineering from an accredited institution.
- Enrollment in, or intent to enroll in, a graduate degree program in Electrical or Biomedical Engineering.
- Experience or coursework in analog and digital circuit design, circuit simulation, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
- Familiarity with sensor interfaces, physiological signal acquisition, or signal processing.
- Proficiency with laboratory instruments such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and spectrum analyzers.
- Experience with prototype assembly, debugging, low-power electronics, or RF wireless communications.
- Knowledge of embedded firmware or FPGA development and hardware/software integration.
- Strong analytical and communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
Location & details#
- This is a paid, full-time internship located on-site in Rochester, Minnesota.
- The term runs from Summer 2027 through Fall 2027, spanning from May or June through December.
About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic operates as a nonprofit medical group practice. It provides specialized care in heart health, cancer treatment, transplantation, and neurosciences. Headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota, the organization maintains a large workforce of nearly 49,000 employees. It functions as an integrated medical system with multiple locations across the United States.
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