Mechanical Engineer Summer Internship (Architecture)

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

The internship a hands-on role within the R&D Hardware Engineering group helping to develop and troubleshoot Energy Based Devices that provide ultrasonic therapy. The expectation is that the intern will support the current engineering team with projects and tasks related to lab investigations, designing fixtures, tooling, for existing devices.

This will require the use of Solidworks to create drawings and models.

This internship may provide the opportunities to run independent projects, design tooling, fixtures and other parts that may be 3D printed, machined in-house, or sent to suppliers for R&D use.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, test, and verify designs and 3D printed prototype assemblies.
• Perform stack-up tolerancing of designs.
• Document designs in Drawings
• Collect, tabulate, and analyze data, as well as communicate experimental setup and results to technical staff.
• Support engineering in other duties, such as running testing, writing specifications, test plans, and test reports.

Education (Preferred Majors)

• Required:
  • Rising Junior & Rising Senior in a Bachelor's Degree (in a Engineer Majors)
• Preferred:
  • Currently enrolled in a graduate program (Engineer Majors)

Minimum Qualifications

• Required:
  • Experience with Solidworks CAD
  • Ability to perform mechanical assembly
  • Ability to use calipers and record measurements
  • Ability to writing test plans and reports documenting findings
  • Ability to work in a team environment and work independently as required
• Preferred:
  • Experience with of 3D printing
  • Experience with machine shop use of lathe, Mill, and other tools
  • Experience driving projects to completion

 Additional Information

• Program Length:
  • 10-Week Program (Projected Dates: June 2, 2025 to August 14, 2025)
• Location: 
  • Raleigh NC - Weekly Hybrid Schedule (3-Days  WFO - 2Days WFH)

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Research and Development