Sponsors & Careers

EPIC is supported through the generous support of our partner companies. These sponsors provide resources, time and advice to advance product development and manufacturing. Through their generous contributions we are able to keep our equipment up to date, hire a group of promising student lab assistants who will receive on the job training in the shop, as well as hold educational programming outside of the core curriculum.

If you are inspired to give and help fund EPIC’s educational programs please use our link below

Donate to EPIC @ BU Crowdfunding

If you are a student looking for open roles with our Sponsors please check their websites linked below as well as the BU ENG Career Development Office website for job fairs and other related events. BU also uses Handshake to post internships, informational meetings and interviews for roles. If you are interested in what the job titles mean skip ahead.

If you are a sponsor looking to advertise job openings please email us at epicinfo@bu.edu and we can include them in our newsletter!

Shark Ninja
Locations

Massachusetts, England, China

About

SharkNinja is a diversified, global product design and technology company that creates 5-star rated lifestyle solutions through innovative products for consumers around the world. The Company seeks to leverage its global, agile and cross-functional engineering know-how, product development and manufacturing expertise along with solutions-driven marketing to increase the efficiency, convenience and enjoyment of consumers’ daily tasks and improve everyday lives. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the Company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive products to market, and developing one consumer solution after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. The Company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world. Ninja® and Shark® are registered trademarks of SharkNinja, Inc.

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General Electric
Locations

All 50 states and worldwide

About

Aviation, shaping the future of ﬂight.
Healthcare, at the center of precision health.
Renewable Energy, Power, and Digital, leading the energy transition.

Three companies. All essential to modern life.

The best of our 129-year heritage, now focused on delivering for our future.

GE is beginning again. Delivering for our future, working on technology that transforms lives. We plan to create three formidable public companies.

Entry Level Positions

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PTC
Locations

Boston, Minnesota, Maine, Worldwide

About

Increasing revenue, improving efficiency, reducing cost—these are all accomplished by implementing innovative technology that’s purpose-built to solve the challenges holding your organization back.

Our technology helps industrial companies across the value chain to achieve impressive results for themselves, their customers, and the world. See why we’re consistently ranked as a leader for our proven technologies, like Creo, Onshape and Vuforia.

Entry Level Positions

Product Management
Software Development Engineer
Product Specialist
Innovation Engineer
Program Management

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Amazon Robotics
Locations

Massachusetts, Washington, Texas, Virginia, New York, Worldwide

About

Amazon Robotics is located in the greater Boston area, the epicenter of robotics innovation. Our diverse team of engineers come from all over the world to design, test, and build our dynamic fleet of robots and mechatronic systems. Having our offices, labs, test floors and factories all co-located means that we can design the hardware, write the code, test, build, and watch it all come to life. This allows us to innovate quickly on limitless ideas. Current advancements are underway in autonomous movement and mobility, artificial intelligence and machine learning, manipulation, simulation, robotic management software, predictive analytics, and much more.

Entry Level Positions

Software Development Engineering
Hardware Support Engineering
Supply Chain Order Management
Product Quality Engineering
Manufacturing Test Engineering
Hardware Support Engineer

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation
Locations

Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, North Carolina, Louisiana, Worldwide

About

The sole mission of Mitsubishi Electric Automation Americas, is to support the factory automation needs of North and Latin American customers with combined sales, marketing, service, engineering and manufacturing resources. This focused approach is being completed through a facility located in Vernon Hills, IL where all aspects of automation support can be maintained, including manufacturing, engineering, training, customer service, repair, sales and warehousing functions. Customers of Mitsubishi Electric products can be assured of corporate customer support, as well as training at customer sites and other locations around the country, customer service representatives and technical support staff to provide troubleshooting and order processing services; easy-to-understand documentation and a library of support material to provide answers to questions, and repair service with rapid turnaround using custom, company parts. Solutions are what Mitsubishi Electric takes seriously, no matter how difficult the job.

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What Job Titles Mean

There are very few job titles that have the name of your degree in them. This is a list of some of the typical job titles.

Title	Description	Keywords
Control System Engineers	Design and build some automation systems, control information networks, or vision and robotic systems. Engineers use mechatronics and process dynamic simulation tools to create industrial software solutions that enable efficient production. Typically these are electrical, mechanical, or chemical engineering roles.	Automation, software, chemical engineering
Cost Engineers	Manage the estimates of capital equipment and other costs required in a business. In addition, they communicate to the teams the key cost drivers and cost improvement areas. They work to ensure that projects are on time and on budget and integrate with the product development teams.	Engineering analysis
CMM programmer	Program CMM and other equipment to optimize for manufacturability, cost and quality	CAD/CAM, manufacturing processes
Hardware engineer	Designs electro-mechanical systems.	Electronics design, mechanical elements, motors, design, CAD, prototyping
Hardware support engineering Sustaining engineering Continual improvement	Improve existing electro-mechanical designs to improve quality and cost. Involves doing root cause analysis, design improvements, manufacturing improvement. Often works with quality engineering and manufacturing engineering	electro-mechanical design, continual improvement, root cause analysis, CAD
Industrial Logistics Engineer	Manage the purchase, transport, storage and distribution of materials	Operations engineering, supply chain
Leadership programs (i.e., GE’s Edison program)	Rotational programs that provide multiple experiences in a field (engineering, manufacturing, or operations). Companies try to recruit top talent who will eventually rise to the executive level of companies. Often includes custom training and education.	Leadership, technical excellence, interest in area of leadership development
Logistics coordinator Supply chain order management	Manages the ordering, tracking and planning for purchasing. Identifying possible cost reductions. Working with vendors to solve problems	Supply chain
Manufacturing process engineer	Responsible for ensuring that the manufacturing processes are efficient, effective, and operate reliably to produce high-quality products. Work may include analyzing production lines to find losses and reduce them, designing and incorporating new manufacturing equipment, implementing improvements.
Materials engineering	Developing new-to-the-world material technologies to meet customer needs	Material science, chemical engineering, manufacturing processes
Mechanical analysis engineer	Uses engineering analysis software and engineering analysis methods to ensure the performance of designs. Can include thermal, FEA, mechanical, and other analysis methods	Engineering analysis, engineering software, CAD,
Mechanical engineer	Mechanical design of next-generation products. Often works closely with manufacturing to ensure producibility.	CAD, engineering analysis, mechanical components, manufacturing processes
Packaging Packaging engineer Packaging innovation engineer	Similar to a manufacturing engineer but focused primarily on packaging technology and packaging manufacturing technology.	Manufacturing methods, materials, process, automation
Process development engineer	Lead the design, development, and delivery of state-of-the-art equipment.	Manufacturing processes, equipment design, automation, design
Product development engineer Integrated product design engineer Innovation engineer	Work to understand customer needs and translate them into a design. Collects and defines customer needs and technical requirements required to create a successful product. They use quantitative and qualitative modeling to analyze solutions and prototype them.	Engineering, design thinking, product development, analysis
Product specialist	Supports the development of new products and improves existing ones, analyzes market research, works with business units to ensure revenue growth	Market analysis, product development, customer engagement
Product supply (PS) engineering	Lead the startup of production factories, build custom manufacturing equipment, maintain the equipment, sources new technology, and develop new packaging methods. Within Product Supply engineering you can specialize in a number of areas including Robotics, Packing, Data Analysis, and Processes.	Production system design
Quality Roles Supplier quality development engineer Quality specialist Quality management specialist Quality assurance Product quality engineering	Help ensure the quality of the products built in-house or by a supplier. Can include auditing of suppliers’ quality systems, troubleshooting, supplier training, inspection and testing of incoming materials,	Quality systems, supplier management, root cause analysis, corrective action, Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing
Software development engineer	Develop, analyze, and modify new and existing software.	Programming, UI / UX
Supply chain data analyst	Analyze and optimize supply chains. Includes using business intelligence software and the use of statistics and data analysis to provide insights and actions to improve the supply chain	Supply chain, data analysis, statistics
Test engineering roles Design verification and validation engineering Manufacturing Test Engineering	Develops tests and runs tests to ensure products meet the specifications and customer requirements	Quality systems, equipment design, test development