What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineering Co-op position at Flex?
Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add an Electrical Engineering Co-Op located in our Hollis, NH site.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the student will learn effective concept generation, design for manufacturing, prototyping, and documentation as they apply their engineering knowledge to real world product development problems. A motivated student will thrive in Farm’s fast paced environment as they participate in all aspects of the design process.
What a typical day looks like:
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add an Electrical Engineering Co-Op located in our Hollis, NH site.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the student will learn effective concept generation, design for manufacturing, prototyping, and documentation as they apply their engineering knowledge to real world product development problems. A motivated student will thrive in Farm’s fast paced environment as they participate in all aspects of the design process.
What a typical day looks like:
- Work on an exciting variety of medical products ranging from home health wearables to next generation therapy systems to surgical robotics.
- Collaborate with industrial design, user interface, human factors, software, and mechanical teams to help produce successful product designs.
- Participate in multidisciplinary brainstorming sessions.
- Conceptualize, investigate, and develop innovative product architectures, parts, mechanisms, and assemblies.
- Create and support design solutions using CAD, analysis software, and lab equipment.
- Procure, assemble, and test breadboards and prototypes to inform and refine designs.
- Measure and demonstrate design performance.
- Communicate design value, tradeoffs, and recommendations to internal teams and clients.
- Develop a personal portfolio of work you accomplish during your internship or co-op.
- Eager to learn, contribute, and take on challenges working collaboratively on multidisciplinary teams
- Fundamental understanding of electronics and physics.
- Ability to read and understand a schematic.
- Hands-on experience in electromechanical assemblies, specifically wiring, soldering, and troubleshooting.
- Ability to modify and build circuitry.
- Basic circuit design and hardware design.
- Ability to carry out laboratory experiments, document and communicate results.
- Skills with tools for signal measurement and capture (oscilloscope, multimeter, etc.).
- Experience with Labview and/or Arduino as a rapid development tool.
- Ability to create a schematic and a simple PCB layout is a plus.
- Basic programming skills is a plus.
- Available to work 40 hours/week (in-person) for the assignment term (Jan-Jun 2027)
- Currently enrolled in 4-year accredited university studying Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or Biomedical Engineering
- 3.0 minimum GPA