Nuclear Engineering Co-Op - Hoffman Estates, IL

Siemens Healthineers

2d • Onsite

About The Position

At Siemens Healthineers, we offer you a flexible and dynamic environment with opportunities to go beyond your comfort zone in order to grow personally and professionally. This is a role well suited for a highly motivated student looking to build their skill set and gain hands-on experience. As a Nuclear Engineering Co-Op, you will be responsible for using radiation sources to collect data from detector systems for the purpose of testing detector, collimator, or shielding technologies, developing code to process and analyze that data to answer specific technical questions, developing mechanical or electrical test fixtures and/or sub-assemblies to enable the testing of detector or collimator technologies, developing algorithms or analysis methods to aid in the technical investigation of detector or collimator technologies, and presenting your development activities, in-process work items, results and discussion in a professional manner to engineering staff and management.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program, majoring in Engineering, Physics, or Medical Physics (rising junior or senior preferred)
• Minimum 3.0 GPA (preferred)
• Registered and eligible to participate in a co-op through your university

Nice To Haves

• Radiation detection methods and instrumentation
• Electro-mechanical system engineering
• Radiation Transport theory
• Radiation shielding methods
• Medical imaging
• Medical physics
• Detector corrections and calibrations including uniformity, linearity and energy correction

Responsibilities

• Using radiation sources to collect data from detector systems for the purpose of testing detector, collimator, or shielding technologies
• Developing code to process and analyze that data to answer specific technical questions
• Developing mechanical or electrical test fixtures and/or sub-assemblies to enable the testing of detector or collimator technologies
• Developing algorithms or analysis methods to aid in the technical investigation of detector or collimator technologies
• Presenting your development activities, in-process work items, results and discussion in a professional manner to engineering staff and management

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed