Fall 2025: Test Engineer Co-op (July through Mid December)

- Intern

Needham, MA

1,001-5,000 employees

About the position

The Test Department’s role is to identify all issues within our products before we launch them. As such, the Protocol Development Test Engineer (PDTE) Co-op will be the pioneers of innovation by ensuring our new technologies meet the high demands of our consumers. The position focus is on developing new test. By standing as the voice of the consumer it will be the job of the PDTE I to identify new methods of testing as it relates to performance and safety of the product. There is a high degree of interaction with the Engineering and Product Development teams in this role which will require the PDTE I to stand strong for the quality of the product while challenging cross functional design assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Represent the voice of the consumer by developing protocols/tests that evaluate product requirements against targets set by Product Development.
• Learn how to be the protocol/test/safety/performance standards 'expert' for cross-functional team member questions and concerns.
• Learn to identify and work with Internal/External SMEs across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Present status of activities and special projects to the Testing team regularly.
• Take an active role (independently and in teams) to identify and potentially solve technical issues found in the development of a product.
• Collaborate to help establish a project's user design, and functional requirements by delivering robust test protocols, then helping to validate through testing and building consensus on next steps.
• Support and learn protocol development throughout conception, CAD execution, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at a fast pace & successfully develops team to do the same.
• Work closely with our Engineering teams on design approaches to create testing rigs to evaluate product performance.
• Run competitive product analyses, giving your business partners insight into how Shark stacks up against the competition.

Requirements

• BSEE, BSME or similar technical discipline major
• Prior experience designing or analyzing electromechanical systems
• Excellent oral and written communication to create reports, write business correspondence, & develop procedures
• Change agent with energy, passion, and enthusiasm to drive change
• Analytical, problem solving, and root-cause analysis skills
• Ability to multi-task and handle tasks with competing priorities effectively
• 'Hands-on' -building of prototypes, experimental testing of some sort, either in the workshop or in a science context.
• Proficient in all MS Office

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using JIRA or other project management tools
• Experience using Minitab or equivalent stats software
• 3D Modeling
• Model shop experience
• Experience with any of the following: Arduino, RaspberryPi, scripting (including Python)
• Knowledge of setting up Design of Experiments.
• Data analysis around general statistics (Tukey Range, T-tests, etc.)
• Ability to design and assemble full scale test fixtures

Benefits

• Competitive health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Employee stock purchase options
• Wellness programs
• SharkNinja product discounts
• High impact Learning Programs