Summer 2025: Mechanical Engineering Intern (May through August)

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Work Period: Mid May through Mid August (12 weeks total) 

Location: Onsite 5 Days a Week Needham, MA. This position has no relocation or housing assistance. 

Summary of Position:

SharkNinja is looking for highly motivated Mechanical Engineering Interns to join our team to enable us to create a new generation of innovative products across our Shark & Ninja ranges. We seek creative problem solvers who possess an intuitive grasp of physics and engineering fundamentals, who are equally comfortable hacking together a prototype in the lab or analyzing the results of a test and are passionate about solving the tough engineering challenges required to be the first to deliver innovative new products to market.

Essential Functions:

• Help originate novel concepts and technologies for our next generation of products.
• Work with wider team to define elegant but robust solutions to satisfy the products functional requirements.
• Collaborates on design studies (with wider team) to solve technical or consumer issues found in the development of a product.
• Build test rigs in the lab while supporting the execution of verification and validation test plans.
• Be naturally curious and relentlessly driven to find better solutions to everyday problems.
• Demonstrate integrity and courage in the way you work, breaking the mold isn’t easy.

Attributes and Skills:

• A natural and effective communicator capable of reducing abstract concepts to reality.
• Strong understanding of mechanical engineering/physics fundamentals including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and mechanical design.
• Solid analytical skills, attention to detail, and relentless drive to identify potential problems and take responsibility for their resolution.
• Intellectual curiosity and creativity, strong first principles thinking, positive can-do attitude, and proven ability to deliver robust, elegant, and innovative solutions to complex design challenges.
• Willingness to roll up sleeves and dive into hands-on development and testing workstreams.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues clearly, effectively, and concisely.
• Comfortable multitasking and responding quickly to shifting priorities without losing sight of longer-term projects.

Education and Experience:

• Undertaking a degree in Product Design, Product Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Is passionate about product design & function.
• Has had some exposure to a CAD program (ideally SolidWorks or Creo) and or 3D printing/laser cutting.
• Experience with hands-on prototype development in plastic and metal including using basic machine shop tools.
• Familiarity with electronics (analog/digital), test equipment, and components common in small appliances (sensors, motors, heaters, PCBAs, etc.)
• Can identify, solve, implement and verify technical solutions autonomously and as part of a team.
• “Hands-on” -building of prototypes, experimental testing of some sort, either in the workshop or in a science context.
• Some experience with Developer kits such as Python, Arduino, Raspberry Pi is desirable.