Cochlear
2020/21 Science & Engineering Summer Student Program
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Opportunity details
- Internship
- Summer Internship based on standard graduate salaries
- 20 vacancies
- Apply by 26 Apr 2020
At Cochlear hearing is our passion.
Change people's lives and love what you do! Cochlear is a world-leading, cutting-edge, medical device company which develop products which gifts hearing to the world.
An ASX top 50 company and ranked in Grad Australia's top 50 employers, Cochlear offers an unmatched, global platform to launch your engineering career. As an advanced Medical Device manufacturer and a market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear branded implant than any other.
Our Summer Student program empowers you to focus on your passions; from designing hardware products, developing and improving manufacturing processes, implementing test systems, or designing and testing firmware or software, the work at Cochlear is technically challenging and incredibly rewarding.
As a Summer Student you will join our team in one of six streams; Mechanical, Systems, Software, Firmware, Advanced Innovation or Electrical. Our students are given an important engineering project that will contribute to Cochlear's product development and give you real-life insight into working as a professional engineer. You will have the opportunity to work alongside and collaborate with the best and brightest engineering minds in the world as they mentor and support you to develop your skills and follow your passions.
Every year our Summer Students work on a variety of different projects that add real value to our R&D and Manufacturing efforts. Some examples are below:
- Designing and developing new products or components
- Contributing to product improvement projects
- Evaluating and testing technologies critical to delivering a next-generation sound processor
- Building critical research enabling software solutions
- Contributing to the design of analog and digital ASIC
- Developing voice-controlled sound processor capabilities
- Developing automated test solutions for a clinical mobile app
- Performing verification activities for product designs before they transition to manufacturing
To prepare you for a graduate engineering career with Cochlear in 2022 we are offering paid placements in our Summer Student program from November 2020 to February 2021; based on our global R&D operations in Sydney.
Applications are now open to all penultimate year engineering, science and IT students or related degrees, with applications closing 26 April 2020.
About the employer
Cochlear AU
4.5
1,000 - 50,000 employees
R&D and Manufacturing
At Cochlear we are passionate about hearing. Our mission is to help people hear and be heard.
Pros and cons of working at Cochlear AU
Pros
Great friendly environment, a lot of variety in my tasks, the feeling that my work makes a positive difference to society.
Relaxed trusting attitude.
My fellow engineering colleagues - very intelligent people who are driven to benefit society.
The work I do allows people to hear. Everyone is friendly, if you need guidance in a particular subject area, you only need to ask.
The work is really interesting. The people are friendly and helpful. The work is really satisfying (getting to help people). The environment is really nurturing, the people are smart and always willing to share knowledge. Work-life balance.
Cons
The company is a medical device company, and as such things move quite slowly due to the large number of regulatory submissions required to make simple changes. This can get frustrating.
Having to wear business casual most days.
Aspects related to corporate bureaucracy.
You spend a good chunk of your time writing documentation.
There is a lot of documentation required and projects can be slow moving due to regulations. Remuneration could be higher for the calibre of work that we do.