Manufacturing Engineering Intern - Summer 2026

Carnegie Robotics • Pittsburgh, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Carnegie Robotics designs and manufactures advanced robotics systems and components for defense, agricultural, mining, industrial, and off-road autonomy applications. Our ruggedized solutions can meet the challenges of any industry, providing effective and efficient answers for even the toughest problems.
Carnegie Robotics seeks outstanding students for our internships and co-ops. We view internships as excellent opportunities for us to learn about future potential full-time hires while also contributing to students' education and their understanding of work practices in an engineering setting. Many of our interns return annually and take on ever more challenging tasks. Please note that this is a full-time, on-site position.
We accept college sophomore, junior, senior, masters and PhD level students. In all cases we expect to see excellent grades, work ethic and a strong desire to accomplish goals. We pay well and set high standards for our interns.
Manufacturing Engineering Interns will be treated as junior engineers on teams with an assigned mentor and will assist and work on the following aspects of projects:
Collaborating with technicians and engineers to aid in establishing the production processes by which products are manufactured to CRL standards to meet customer requirements
Creating and editing work instructions, ensuring an accurate documented process in a fast-paced changing environment
Working directly with multiple technicians, ensuring clarity and consistency of the visual and written instructions
Identifying process inefficiencies through process observation, data analytics, and review with assembly technicians; proposing and implementing Lean principles
Some examples of previous work include:
Implementing and conducting Gage R&R (Repeatability and Reproducibility) testing for new mass flow leak test equipment and vacuum testing
Using additive manufacturing to create fixtures and tools for lean manufacturing

Requirements

• excellent grades
• work ethic
• a strong desire to accomplish goals
• college sophomore, junior, senior, masters and PhD level students

Nice To Haves

• You have working experience with common Engineering tools (e.g. Solidworks, Arduino, 3D printing process)
• You have working knowledge of C++ and Python programming
• You have work experience supporting a manufacturing environment
• You have completed self-directed projects from problem statement to completion

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with technicians and engineers to aid in establishing the production processes by which products are manufactured to CRL standards to meet customer requirements
• Creating and editing work instructions, ensuring an accurate documented process in a fast-paced changing environment
• Working directly with multiple technicians, ensuring clarity and consistency of the visual and written instructions
• Identifying process inefficiencies through process observation, data analytics, and review with assembly technicians; proposing and implementing Lean principles
• Implementing and conducting Gage R&R (Repeatability and Reproducibility) testing for new mass flow leak test equipment and vacuum testing
• Using additive manufacturing to create fixtures and tools for lean manufacturing

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees