Graduate Engineering Intern - Electronics

Mayo Clinic; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 33,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mayo Clinic Graduate Engineer Internship in Rochester, Minnesota, is a full-time, on-site opportunity for Summer-Fall 2027 (May or June through December). Mentors guide the intern in learning procedures and completing assigned engineering tasks.

Interns gain experience in electrical engineering for physiological sensing, monitoring and therapeutic technologies, contributing to low-power, battery-powered medical device prototypes.

Qualifications

• Graduate student in electrical engineering seeking hands-on project experience.
• Interest in medical devices and physiological sensing.
• Able to work with mentors and follow structured learning objectives.
• Willingness to learn design methods, verification, and tests.

Responsibilities

• Assist with analog and digital circuit design, simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout, and component evaluation.
• Assemble, bring up, debug, and test electronic prototypes; document measurements and participate in design reviews.
• Support sensor interfaces, signal acquisition, power-management circuits, or wireless-module integration.
• Support integration of electronics hardware, firmware (including HDL for FPGAs) and software.
• Help characterize signal quality, power consumption, battery-powered operating modes, or wireless performance.

Skills

Analog circuit design

Digital circuit design

PCB layout

Schematic capture

Prototype testing

Design verification

Firmware integration

HDL for FPGA

Wireless module integration

Sensor interfaces

Power-management

Design reviews

Education

Graduate student in electrical engineering

Job description

This graduate internship is a full-time position Summer-Fall 2027 (May or June through December) on site in Rochester, Minnesota.

The primary purpose of the Graduate Engineer Internship is to provide a graduate student with relevant engineering experiences. One or more mentors will be assigned to the intern to provide instruction, guidance and to assess performance. The intern is responsible for learning the procedures and processes of the Division of Engineering and the assigned work unit. In addition, the intern will be given selected engineering work assignments to reinforce the learning experience and to provide benefit to the work unit. The engineering assignments may include designing components, developing a project strategy, gathering user needs, requirements and specifications, evaluating commercial components, assembling prototype systems, performing design verification and design validation, troubleshooting, and participating in design reviews.

This internship will support electrical engineering development for physiological sensing, monitoring and therapeutic technologies, with opportunities to contribute to low-power, battery-powered, and wirelessly connected medical device prototypes. The intern will work on selected components or subsystems within a broader modular platform, under the guidance of experienced engineers. Assignments will be matched to the intern’s preparation, learning objectives, and project needs. Assignments may include may include:

• Assist with analog and digital circuit design, simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout, and component evaluation.
• Assemble, bring up, debug, and test electronic prototypes; document measurements and participate in design reviews.
• Support sensor interfaces, signal acquisition, power-management circuits, or wireless-module integration.
• Support integration of electronics hardware, firmware (including HDL for FPGAs) and software.
• Help characterize signal quality, power consumption, battery-powered operating modes, or wireless performance, as appropriate to the assignment.