Lab Technician Internship (paid)

Mosaic Design Labs; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Mentorship from engineers

Flexible schedule

Hands-on fabrication training

Job summary

Mosaic Design Labs in West Berkeley, CA is offering a paid internship for students who want hands-on experience with real hardware and AI-native lab systems. Work is 8–16 hours per week during the semester, scheduled around your classes, and all on site.

You will organize, label, restock, and maintain the lab, assist with electronics assembly, run 3D prints and laser cuts, and help keep our parts inventory accurate using our phone-based tools.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a science or engineering program at UC Berkeley or nearby.
• Must have hands-on experience building, fixing, or taking apart things.
• Must be organized and detail-oriented with a place for everything.
• Reliable and willing to help with whatever the lab needs.

Responsibilities

• Organize the lab: bins, labels, tool chests, and parts placement.
• Assist with electronics assembly: cables, wiring harnesses, simple boards.
• Run 3D prints and laser cuts after training.
• Cleanup and restock lab materials, cardboard and trash.
• Keep parts inventory accurate using phone-based inventory tools.

Skills

Hands-on

Organized

Reliable

Detail-oriented

Education

Enrolled in a science or engineering program (UC Berkeley or nearby)

Tools

Phone-based inventory tools

Job description

The hands-on side of a working biomedical lab: organizing, building, restocking, keeping it running.

Hours 8–16 hours a week during the semester, scheduled around your classes.

Location West Berkeley, CA (on site)

This is a paid internship for students who want to be close to real hardware. A lot of it is the unglamorous work that keeps a lab productive: organizing, labeling, restocking, cleanup, taking out the trash. You will do it in a highly stimulating environment, alongside engineers building diagnostic instruments and the AI tools that help run the lab, and you will pick up real skills along the way.

What you would do

• Organize the lab: bins, labels, tool chests, and putting parts where they belong.


• Help with electronics assembly: cables, wiring harnesses, simple boards.


• Run 3D prints and laser cuts once trained.


• Lab cleanup and restocking, cardboard and trash.


• Help keep our parts inventory accurate, using our phone-based inventory tools.

About you

• Enrolled in a science or engineering program at UC Berkeley or another college or university nearby.


• Hands-on: you have built, fixed, or taken apart things, at school or on your own.


• Organized and detail-oriented. You like it when everything has a place.


• Reliable, and happy to do whatever the lab needs that day.

What you get

• Paid hours and a flexible schedule.


• Mentorship from engineers who have shipped medical devices, and a front-row view of how an AI-native lab works.


• Training on our fabrication tools, and a path to more technical work as you grow.

Why Mosaic

Mosaic Design Labs is an AI-native biomedical product development studio in West Berkeley. We design instruments and devices for biodefense, point-of-care diagnostics and scientific research: firmware, circuit boards, microfluidics, mechanical design, and the software that ties them together.

AI is part of how we work every day. Our own agents keep our inventory, draft our documents, drive our CAD and lab tools, and help us test ideas quickly. People make every decision that matters, and we hold the work to the standard medical devices demand.

We believe the best way to learn this work is as an apprentice: at the bench, next to engineers doing it for real, picking up the hands-on craft and the new AI-native tools at the same time. Whatever role you start in, we want you to leave more capable than you arrived, and we want to grow people into bigger roles here.

Pay

$22–26/hr