2026 Medical Device & Combination Product Quality Intern

Role Summary

Join AbbVie's Medical Device & Combination Product Quality team as a summer intern. You will support the MDCP RDQA organization, collaborating with colleagues in R&D, Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Safety, and more to develop and launch new AbbVie medical device products worldwide. The MDCP R&D Quality function ensures products are designed to be safe and effective and that development efforts comply with applicable standards and regulations. You will lead efforts to define the best tools and processes for collecting and organizing emerging regulations, guidance, enforcement actions, and decisions, and promote consistent application across R&D Medical Device Combo Product group members.

Responsibilities

• Better organize existing quality documentation procedures, standards, guidance documents
• Improve the process for knowledge management, including external intelligence
• Implement knowledge management framework and best practices to optimize search functionality and ensure efficiency and consistency
• Support the creation and review of Quality Engineering deliverables and Design Verification and Validation activities, including review of verification and validation protocols and reports
• Drive a process or technology improvement initiative globally or at the site level
• Leverage subject matter expertise to identify continuous improvement opportunities
• Ensure that technical information is accurate and in compliance with quality and regulatory requirements
• Prepare information for communication and knowledge sharing using various methods (e.g., presentations, written messages, training)
• Learn about R&D QA quality systems in a regulated environment

Qualifications

• Required: Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Master’s degree in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, or other related scientific/engineering degree
• Required: Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship
• Required: Expected graduation date between December 2026 – June 2027
• Preferred: Medical device or project management experience

Skills

• Knowledge management and external intelligence gathering
• Quality engineering deliverables and design verification and validation awareness
• Regulatory compliance and accurate technical documentation
• Effective written and verbal communication, with the ability to prepare training and presentations
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams across R&D, QA, and regulatory functions