Engineering & Technology Co-op Opportunities

Location: Needham, MA, United States Department: Engineering

About Us

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 4,100 associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

AI at SharkNinja

At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in.

Join the SharkNinja Early Edge Experience: Built for early career talent. Geared toward impact. Driven by speed. Whether you’re in a co-op or internship, our early talent program is designed to provide valuable exposure to the industry and a fast-paced professional environment. You’ll dive into meaningful projects and tasks that sharpen your skills and deepen your knowledge. Along the way, you’ll benefit from professional development opportunities, community events, and connections that make your experience well-rounded and enriching. Your time with us will culminate in an opportunity to showcase your contributions and learnings to SharkNinja leaders because this is a program for those ready to shape what’s next — fast.

Are you passionate about using your technical skills to bring bold ideas to life? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments where innovation and impact go hand in hand? Are you excited by the challenge of building — and breaking — the next generation of high-performance consumer products? If so, we invite you to learn more about the Engineering & Technology Co-op at SharkNinja.

This is a single application for engineering and technology early talent opportunities across SharkNinja. The hiring teams are spread across our electrical, embedded, software, robotics, digital, quality, test, and safety functions.

Whichever team you join, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers on products that reach millions of homes. You might be bringing up a new circuit board, tuning a control algorithm on a robot, writing cloud or mobile code for a connected appliance, building a test rig that runs thousands of cycles, investigating a field return, or helping keep our products and facilities safe and compliant. If you’re technically curious, hands-on, solution-oriented, and ready to make an impact from day one, we want to hear from you!

Teams that you can be connected to through this posting include:

Electrical Engineering (Shark and Ninja)

Electrical Design Engineering, Advanced Development

Firmware & Embedded Software Engineering

Control Systems & Algorithms

Robotics & Mechatronics

Software Engineering

Web Development (CodeShark)

Mobile App Development

Software & Technical Program Management

Digital & Website Technology

IT Service Desk

Product Test Engineering

Software Quality Assurance & Test Automation

System Quality Assurance (Robotics)

CORE Quality (Consumer, Operational, Regulatory & Engineering)

Product Safety & Regulatory Compliance

Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)

Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do

Contribute to the design, development, and validation of next-generation Shark and Ninja products — and the software that powers them

Work hands-on in labs, at the bench, and in code: building prototypes, test fixtures, scripts, and tools that engineers actually use

Support debugging, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and failure investigation on real products and real consumer data

Develop and execute test plans, document results, and turn data into recommendations that shape design decisions

Participate in design reviews, sprints, stand-ups, and technical discussions alongside experienced engineers

Collaborate cross-functionally with Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Firmware, Quality, Operations, Marketing, and Product Management

Gain exposure to the full product development lifecycle — ideation and prototyping through certification, mass production readiness, and post-market consumer feedback

Own a meaningful project end to end and present your contributions to SharkNinja leaders

Depending on the team, your day-to-day may include

Electrical, Embedded & Robotics

Designing, simulating, and evaluating analog and digital circuits — power supplies, signal filtering and amplification, motor control, sensor integration, battery management — using tools such as LTSpice and Altium

Board bring-up, debugging, and validation of real-time embedded electronics, including serial communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, and UART

Writing and debugging firmware in C/C++ for microcontrollers and prototyping on platforms such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi

Developing classical (e.g., PID) and advanced (e.g., MPC) control algorithms in Python, MATLAB, or C++ and tuning them on real hardware

Working with robotics and navigation technologies such as LiDAR, Time-of-Flight sensors, and SLAM/V-SLAM

Supporting EMC, safety, and certification testing, EBOM/CBOM cost analysis, DVT, and DFMEA

Software, Digital & IT

Building and verifying cloud and connected-product software on the AWS IoT platform using TypeScript and Python

Developing cross-platform mobile apps in React Native, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, or Rust that communicate with devices over BLE, Wi-Fi, MQTT, and RESTful APIs

Front-end and web development, CMS content updates, analytics a