2022 Research & Development Summer Student Program null

Our Summer Student program empowers you to focus on your passions; from developing mobile apps and cloud solutions to designing hardware products. We aim to provide you with real experience in a world-class engineering operation!

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, Cochlear offers an unmatched, global platform to launch your 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. While our operations are across the world, our global headquarters are right here in Sydney. This means that you will have access to, and work with significant stakeholders internationally. 

Our Summer Student program operates from November each year for a total of 60 working days and 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 in our Research and Development stream, you will be using your technical skills and abilities to solve unique challenges across various teams - including Validation and Verification, Advanced Innovation, as well as Electrical, Mechanical, and Systems engineering. Your projects will meaningfully contribute to Cochlear’s product development and research and provide you with an unparalleled experience at the forefront of our innovation. You will have the opportunity to work alongside and collaborate with the best and brightest minds in Australia and across 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 essential projects that add real value to our core mission. Some examples are below: 

• Wireless connectivity of some products
• Designing, developing, and verifying/validating new products or components 
• Contributing to product improvement projects 
• Designing and developing electromechanical systems
• Developing voice-controlled sound processor capabilities  
• Testing, analysing and reporting on data and results 
• Evaluating and testing technologies critical to delivering a next-generation sound processor

At the conclusion of the Summer Student program, you will be eligible for exclusive graduate positions starting in February 2024 at Cochlear. Your performance during the Summer Student Program will contribute toward your suitability for a graduate role.  

What makes Cochlear unique as a graduate employer in Australia?

• We are committed to our customers for a lifetime.
• We are passionate about our mission.
• We embrace quality in everything that we do.
• We are world leaders in implantable hearing solutions.
• We design and manufacture high-quality, high-technology products right here in Australia.
• We have world-class R&D facilities in Sydney.
• We have highly experienced engineers who proudly mentor young engineers.
• We invest in growing engineering leaders of the future by providing our graduates with unmatched career development and learning.

Cochlear offers a highly competitive wage and the opportunity to learn and grow alongside a supportive community of innovators. To be eligible for our Research and Development stream:

• You need to study Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical, Software, and Mechatronics Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related and similar degree.
• You need to be a penultimate student, completing your degree in the calendar year 2023. 
• You have achieved a credit average or higher.
• You are available to work full-time for 3 months from late November 2022 to mid-February 2023.
• You possess the right to work in Australia without sponsorship after graduation.
• You are seriously considering starting full-time work as a graduate engineer with Cochlear in February 2024.

Cochlear pride itself in fostering a collaborative culture for our community of innovators; to stand out as a Summer Student you will: 

• Have a passion for Cochlear's mission in making a difference in our customers’ lives.
• Be highly effective in working with other people to achieve shared goals.
• Be confident presenting in front of groups.
• Have a well-developed, analytical problem-solving ability.
• Have a responsible attitude to working safely.
• Be adaptive and a fast learner.
• Be committed to quality in everything you do.

Cochlear is an equal opportunity employer and encourage diversity in all areas of our business, applications for our Summer Student program close strictly at midnight April 30.  Due to high volumes of interest, applications beyond this date will not be accepted.

It is important our Summer Students are not intending on pursuing further studies immediately after graduation as Cochlear aims to foster our summer students into industry-ready engineers. If you are considering further study following your graduation, you are welcome to apply in the penultimate year of your post-graduate degree.