Industrial Design Coop | Summer 2025

StarFish Medical is Canada’s largest medical device design, development and contract manufacturing company. We help Medtech innovators throughout North America overcome challenging technology obstacles to create breakthrough products that improve health and save lives. 

StarFish Medical’s Industrial Design and Human Factors department is opening its door to an Industrial Design summer coop student. We are looking forward to help you learn and grow while assisting in the real world design and development of some potentially life saving medical devices. 

Location

Toronto, Ontario.

Salary

Hourly rate for 3rd year student is $26.70 and hourly rate for 4th year student is $27.91

Position Profile

Reporting to the Industrial Design Team Manager, the Industrial Design Coop role requires good problem solving skills, good understanding of the design process, general understanding of manufacturing technologies and materials, good understanding of user-centric design approach, understanding in UX development and great intrapersonal skills.  We are looking for some one who is passionate about the role that design plays in people lives and has a strong visual design sense.

Responsibilities

• Support the Industrial Design team through ideation, brainstorming, concept sketching and exploration.
• Assist in qualitative research activities with the ID of HF teams.
• Perform initial analysis and critique of existing devices.
• Support project teams through formative prototyping.
• Help craft design concepts through CAD, computer renderings.
• Assemble design concept presentations.
• Assist HF and ID team members through facilitating.
• Work collaboratively with StarFish Medical’s engineering, marketing and QA teams to support projects.
• Any other related duties, as required.

Qualifications

• Ability to work within a team or as an individual with minimal supervision.   
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Experience with SolidWorks, Adobe Creative Suite, Keyshot and Microsoft Office Suite.
• 3^rdor 4^th year industrial design student with a focus on product design, human factors and/or user experience.
• Demonstrate the ability to clearly communicate design concepts.
• An eye for visual design.
• Able to present a relevant portfolio demonstrating abilities.
• Skills in Figma, Axure, Maze are a bonus.
• Motivated and self-driven.

Tasks

During your coop placement StarFish will try it’s best to have you working on some real world projects helping to support the ID/HF team.  The exact tasks will be determined by current project status.  Beyond this, you will be tasked with an independent project over the duration of your placement. The details of this project are to be determined but if you have any suggestions or thoughts on a specific topic you would like to tackle, please share them! On a day to day basis you will be expected to monitor and track your hours through our internal system. 

StarFish Medical is Canada’s leading Medical Device Design service provider with a full complement of design, development, and manufacturing services in Victoria and Toronto. We successfully partner with innovative companies (both large and small) to create breakthrough products for a number of medical specialty areas. 

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At StarFish Medical, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles! StarFish Medical welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Please apply through the StarFish Medical Portal. Applications will be accepted until 5:00 pm PST on Friday, February 14th, 2025. Applications will be reviewed on first-received basis and the job posting will close as soon as the right candidate is found.  

With your resume, please attach a brief PDF outlining your work on a project you are proud of. When attaching the project overview please ensure the document is a maximum of 4 pages, in PDF format, demonstrates only your work and demonstrates the full breadth of your skillset.  

We thank all candidates who apply; however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted following initial application acknowledgment. No phone calls, please.