R&D / Development Engineering Internship - Year in industry placement - start mid-2026

The Opportunity

Abbott’s Diabetes Care site in Witney have an exciting opportunity for a Student Development Engineer to join our on-site Research & Development team for an approximately 12-month internship (starting summer 2026).

Our Diabetes Care division is part of the Medical Devices group, and it is here that we design, develop, and manufacture leading-edge blood glucose monitoring systems, including our revolutionary Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System, which is used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. The system consists of a hand-held meter or smartphone app, and disposable test strips or on-body patch containing a sensor. The meters are developed in Alameda, California, and the strips and sensors developed and manufactured in the UK, at Witney, near Oxford.

The projects that are envisaged include:

- Design of proto-type and proof of principle machines and test fixtures. <...