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Kickmaker

Industrializes high-tech prototypes to mass production

Verification and Validation Engineer Intern

Internship
No salary listed
Master's
Paris, France
In Person
Hardware EngineeringHardware Validation & Testing

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate must be seeking a six-month end-of-studies internship during the final year of engineering school or a Master 2 program.
  • The candidate should be studying mechatronics, systems engineering, embedded systems, biomedical engineering, or a related discipline; a generalist background with practical testing experience is also relevant.
  • The candidate must have participated in a technical project involving test preparation, results analysis, or technical documentation.
  • The candidate must be comfortable with technical documentation in English.
  • The candidate should be rigorous, organized, and curious about understanding products as a whole.
Responsibilities
  • Prepare test protocols based on product requirements and methods defined by the team.
  • Prepare equipment, conduct tests according to approved protocols, and record results.
  • Draft initial test reports and contribute to improving protocol and report templates.
  • Update links between requirements, protocols, and results in the traceability matrix, and organize associated documentation.
  • Record deviations found during testing and help follow up on them with relevant teams.
  • Work under the applicable quality procedures and regulatory requirements on medical-device projects, including ISO 13485, EU Regulation 2017/745, and, where relevant, FDA 21 CFR Part 820.
  • Work with development teams to understand the product and the requirements to be verified.
Desired Qualifications
  • A first knowledge of verification and validation, product requirements, or traceability is appreciated but not required.

About the company

Kickmaker helps high-tech companies turn prototypes into mass-produced products. It offers turnkey industrialization or stage-specific support across the full product lifecycle—design strategy, industrialization, production monitoring, quality control, and lifecycle management—for industries like drones, robotics, mobility, electrification, medical devices, embedded AI, IoT, and consumer electronics. It operates through four agencies (Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Shenzhen) plus urban micro-factories and leverages a community of about 150 engineers to deliver localized, scalable manufacturing. Its goal is to bridge prototype development and mass production by making high-tech products manufacturable at scale and ready for market deployment.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$5.5M

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • Kickmaker opened a tri-continental network and new U.S. facility by August 2026.
  • Kickmaker published fresh 2026 robotics and AI-physicality content, signaling active demand generation.
  • Medical and robotics partnerships in 2025 reached surgeons and industrial buyers, strengthening credibility.

What critics are saying

  • Services are commoditizing as Etteplan, Apside, and similar firms chase the same projects.
  • Hardware startups still cut spending fast; one funding winter hits utilization within quarters.
  • Kickmaker owns little proprietary product; clients can internalize industrialization and squeeze margins.

What makes Kickmaker unique

  • Kickmaker spans prototype-to-series industrialization across seven offices and urban micro-factories.
  • Kickmaker keeps client IP in-house while handling design, software, data, and architecture.
  • Kickmaker specializes in hardware-heavy categories: robotics, medical devices, electrification, drones, and embedded AI.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-2%