R&D Product Development Engineering Intern

R&D Product Development Engineering Intern

At TE Connectivity, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable, and more connected world. TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal, and data to advance next-generation transportation, renewable energy, automated factories, data centers, medical technology, and more.

Work Location:

Hybrid (900 Wilshire Drive, Suite 150, Troy MI)

Job Overview:
As an Intern in TE Connectivity's Automotive Business Unit, you'll support engineering and customer programs that help create a safer, more connected future. You'll:

• Assist Resident Engineers in mapping TE connectors to vehicle platforms, architectures, devices, and wiring harnesses.
• Track OEM vehicle topology, system requirements, product designs, testing specifications, and architecture changes.
• Support engineering sample preparation, testing, vehicle build events, and pilot programs.
• Coordinate customer requirements, program timing, deliverables, and engineering changes.
• Support DVPR and Supplier Change Request (SCR) activities and collaborate with TE product engineers and OEM approval teams.
• Gain hands-on experience with OEM customer and TE systems, engineering change processes, and customer approvals.

Responsibilities:
Provide technical support during customer build events and vehicle assembly plant investigations. Participate in issue reviews, root cause analysis, and corrective actions. Serve as a first responder to customer technical, design, and quality requests. Collaborate with account managers, product engineers, product managers, and automotive team members to support customer needs and business growth.

You're the kind of person we are looking for if you:

• Have earned a high school diploma or GED
• Are currently enrolled in, or pursuing, a BA/BS Degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering from an accredited college or university—or have equivalent work experience (gap year students may also be considered).
• Preferably have prior internship experience or have completed a major project
• Are authorized to work in the U.S.

TE Connectivity and its affiliates are equal employment opportunity employers. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, order of protection status, protected genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation:
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $20.91 – 45.04/hour (subject to change dependent on physical location)

TE Connectivity Internship Program: TE has a robust internship program that provides our interns with an abundance of resources to feel included as part of our Team. Every summer we coordinate various educational and networking events for our interns. The TE University Relations team will be hosting virtual meetups, information sessions, tours, skill building presentations, and topping it off with National Intern Day celebration activities.

A unique employee resource group we have is the Young Professionals Employee Resource Group (ERG). This group is committed to creating a highly engaged and empowered cross-functional network of young professionals by placing high value in Professional Development, Networking Opportunities, and Community Involvement to drive the success of our interns. In addition to the ERG, we also provide our interns with complete access to our internal library of self-lead courses.

These courses include academies like leadership to help the interns develop their development in becoming future leaders at our organization. To help with their professional growth, we provide access to Mentors via our NAVIGATE platform. Mentors serve as…