Cochlear
Research & Development Summer Student Program (Nov 2024)
Sydney
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 65,000 - 70,000 / Year
- Base + super
- 30-40 vacancies
- Apply by 6 Apr 2024
- Start date 26 Nov 2024
As a Summer Student you will join our team in one of eight streams: Mechanical, Advanced Innovation, Electrical, Firmware, Software, Systems, Test Systems or Verification and Validation.
Our Summer Students are given real-world engineering projects that will contribute to Cochlearโs product development and give you hands-on experience working as a professional engineer.
Listed below are some examples on the variety of projects you could work on:
- Developing and testing mobile apps and cloud solutions
- Designing and developing electromechanical systems
- Prototyping and programming of electronic components
- Contributing to product improvement projects
- Verifying and validating new products or components
- Testing, analysing, and reporting on data and results
To be eligible for our Summer Student Program, you will need to meet the following criteria:
- Study an Engineering, Science, IT or related degree.
- Be a penultimate-year student, completing your degree in calendar year 2025.
- Possess the right to work in Australia without sponsorship after graduation
- Achieve a credit average or higher
- Available to work full-time for 3 months from late November 2024 to mid-February 2025.
At the conclusion of the Summer Student program, you will be eligible for Cochlear's exclusive Graduate Program starting in February 2025. Your performance during the Summer Student Program will contribute toward your suitability for a graduate role.
Cochlear is an equal opportunity employer and encourage diversity in all areas of our business. Applications for our Summer Student program strictly close at midnight April 30.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
I was responsible for coordinating a project to gather regional market access business intelligence into a central database. His was my first opportunity to lead a project and required frequent communication with market access leaders across north america, apace and latin america. By other main project was to write a value rosier to persuasively capture the clinical evidence for trochlear plants for a target population in europe. Of approved, this document would enable thousands of people to get cheaper access to their best treatment option. Finally, i conducted an analysis of survey data to understand how field staff interact with clinicians, visualized the data, and presented the results to the global clinical marketing team
By role is to support various departments and tears with the work they are currently working on and progress new ideas that the team has raised in supporting. By day-to-day responsibilities are to work on the projects that i've been assigned and seek out opportunities within the company to further develop my understanding of the medical devices industry and the company itself
Helping to write and conduct test methods to verify products. Helping to design and implement new features on our products
About the employer
Cochlear
4.4
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
Pros
The people and culture are very nice. Good work-life balance.
Very flexible working arrangement. The leadership actively communicates the company's vision with everyone.
Everyone is extremely supportive and helpful. They care about your career and try to provide many opportunities and prospects.
We have access to a wide range of interesting projects and are constantly challenged with new problems.
I have an exceptionally high proportion of projects I really enjoy.
Cons
There is a lack of work especially for grads, and unrealistic utilisation expectations.
Too much bureaucracy. Not enough promotions & raises
Not all the teams have the same level of leadership. This leads to varying levels of being overworked or under-managed.
Progressing slowly. There are not many opportunities for rotations in different teams.
Pay is below my experience level.