Shark Test Engineering Co-op

Work Period: July through December 2025

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 Engineering Students to join our team to enable us to support development of a new generation of innovative products across the Shark portfolio. 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:

• Work with wider team to define elegant but robust solutions to evaluate the product’s functional requirements.
• Analyze data to establish statistical confidence in test procedures - Details Make the Difference
• Create test reports to effectively communicate results and findings to cross-functional team - Communicating for Impact
• Build test fixtures 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:

• Ability to stay organized in a fast-moving environment. 
• Technical writing ability to create processes that are methodical and repeatable.
• 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 Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar
• Is passionate about product design & function.
• 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.