2020/21 Science & Engineering Summer Student Program

At Cochlear hearing is our passion.

Change people's lives and love what you do! Cochlear is a world-leading, cutting-edge, medical device company which develop products which gifts hearing to the world.

An ASX top 50 company and ranked in Grad Australia's top 50 employers, Cochlear offers an unmatched, global platform to launch your engineering career. As an advanced Medical Device manufacturer and a market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear branded implant than any other.

Our Summer Student program empowers you to focus on your passions; from designing hardware products, developing and improving manufacturing processes, implementing test systems, or designing and testing firmware or software, the work at Cochlear is technically challenging and incredibly rewarding.

As a Summer Student you will join our team in one of six streams; Mechanical, Systems, Software, Firmware, Advanced Innovation or Electrical. Our students are given an important engineering project that will contribute to Cochlear's product development and give you real-life insight into working as a professional engineer. You will have the opportunity to work alongside and collaborate with the best and brightest engineering minds in the world as they mentor and support you to develop your skills and follow your passions.

Every year our Summer Students work on a variety of different projects that add real value to our R&D and Manufacturing efforts. Some examples are below:

• Designing and developing new products or components
• Contributing to product improvement projects
• Evaluating and testing technologies critical to delivering a next-generation sound processor
• Building critical research enabling software solutions
• Contributing to the design of analog and digital ASIC
• Developing voice-controlled sound processor capabilities
• Developing automated test solutions for a clinical mobile app
• Performing verification activities for product designs before they transition to manufacturing

To prepare you for a graduate engineering career with Cochlear in 2022 we are offering paid placements in our Summer Student program from November 2020 to February 2021; based on our global R&D operations in Sydney.

Applications are now open to all penultimate year engineering, science and IT students or related degrees, with applications closing 26 April 2020.