Last updated: September 2026
Insulet exists because a father wanted his son to stop taking daily insulin injections. He founded the company in 2000; today Insulet (NASDAQ: PODD) makes the Omnipod, a tubeless, wearable, waterproof pod that delivers up to three days of insulin with no needle to see or handle, and its Omnipod 5 automated insulin delivery system talks to a continuous glucose monitor and can be run from a phone, with zero fingersticks. Its products reach 26 countries. For students, Insulet runs a genuinely unusual triple: a six-month co-op in two windows (January–June and July–December), a 12-week summer internship, and a recent-graduate programme where every new hire starts in June. Vault’s 2026 rankings put the Insulet Global Student Program at #10 for Best Health Sciences Internships, #23 for Overall Inclusion and #24 for Engineering, with a class size Vault records as 101 or more. And Insulet publishes its student pay: the January–June 2026 Acton co-op posting listed a US base range of $25.00 to $34.00 an hour.
Quick Facts
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Where to apply | insulet.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/insuletcareers. Search “intern” and “co-op” separately; Insulet titles the two differently |
| Application window (2027–28) | Not published. Co-op postings expected autumn 2026 (prior-cycle Jan–Jun 2026 co-op ran 12 January to 26 June 2026); summer internship postings expected late 2026 to early 2027 |
| Rolling? | Likely rolling once posted. No Insulet requisition carries a closing date |
| Eligibility | Bachelor’s in engineering, business administration, supply chain, or finance; minimum GPA of 3.0 (co-op requisition and Vault); sophomores through graduate students |
| Duration | 12 weeks (summer internship); 6 months (co-op, January–June or July–December) |
| Compensation | $25.00–$34.00/hr US base (January–June 2026 Acton co-op posting, prior cycle). Summer internship rate not published |
| Return offers | Not published as a rate. Named co-op-to-full-time example: Jakob Morrow, now Associate Systems Engineer, V&V. Recent-graduate programme starts every June |
| Locations | Acton, Massachusetts (HQ, 100 Nagog Park). US student roles are onsite. Also: Malaysia (manufacturing interns) and Mexico (trainee programme) |
Insulet runs three student tracks on different calendars. The January–June 2027 co-op postings are expected in autumn 2026; summer 2027 internship postings should follow in late 2026 to early 2027. Watch the Workday board directly and search both “intern” and “co-op” separately, because Insulet titles them differently.
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What Is an Insulet Internship?
An Insulet internship is a paid student placement at the company behind the Omnipod insulin delivery system, a tubeless, wearable, waterproof pod that delivers up to three days of insulin without the user having to see or handle a needle. Insulet (NASDAQ: PODD), headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, was founded in 2000 and its products now reach 26 countries. The company’s flagship Omnipod 5 automated insulin delivery system integrates with a continuous glucose monitor for zero-fingerstick insulin management controlled from a smartphone. Insulet runs three student tracks under its Global Student Program: a 12-week summer internship in broader disciplines including business, finance and engineering; a six-month co-op in two windows (January–June and July–December) for biomedical, mechanical, industrial and computer engineering, business and supply chain students; and a recent-graduate programme for bachelor’s and master’s holders in engineering, IT and business administration where all new hires start in June. Vault’s 2026 rankings place the programme at #10 for Health Sciences, #23 for Overall Inclusion and #24 for Engineering, with 101 or more interns.
When Do Insulet Internship Applications Open for 2027–2028?
Insulet runs three student programmes on different calendars, which means the right question is not just “when do internships open?” but “which track are you targeting and when does that one post?” The six-month co-op runs January–June and July–December; the prior-cycle January cohort started 12 January 2026 and ended 26 June 2026, meaning its requisition was live in autumn 2025. The 12-week summer internship is described as broader in discipline but its exact posting date is not published. The recent-graduate programme starts every June. For Summer 2027 and the January–June 2027 co-op, the practical message is: the co-op postings should appear first, in autumn 2026, and the summer internship postings should follow in late 2026 to early 2027. There is no Insulet talent community to join while you wait, so watching the Workday board directly is the only option.
Zero US intern or co-op requisitions are live. Insulet’s Workday board carries 176 open roles, six early-career, and every one is outside the US (five in Malaysia, one in Mexico). The January–June 2027 co-op postings are the next ones to watch for.
January–June 2027 co-op requisitions expected to appear on the Workday board. The prior cycle’s Procurement co-op started 12 January 2026, so its posting was live in autumn 2025. Campus career fairs and university co-op offices are the parallel channel.
Summer 2027 internship requisitions expected. Insulet publishes no recruiting calendar, so this is inference from program timing. Search the Workday board for both “intern” and “co-op” separately.
January–June co-op cohort starts (the 2026 equivalent started 12 January). Onsite in Acton, Massachusetts.
12-week summer internship runs at Acton HQ across engineering, business, finance and R&D functions. Recent-graduate cohort also starts in June.
How to read this page: our dates come from tracking previous recruiting cycles and daily posting data. Treat them as informed estimates based on historical patterns, not confirmed dates. The company's official careers page is always the most current source. If a role is posted there, go by that, even if this page suggests the window hasn't opened yet.
Why You Must Apply the Week Applications Open
Insulet is a single-site US employer with 176 total open roles and a student class of 101 or more, which means students are a genuinely large share of the workforce and seats fill through structured pipelines rather than rolling retail hiring. The co-op postings come first, the internship postings follow, and both are expected before campus recruiting season ends. There is no talent community to join, no saved-search functionality documented on the Workday board, and no job-alert mechanism beyond checking manually. A student who starts watching in January has already missed the co-op window. The advice is concrete: bookmark the board now, search both keywords, and work your school’s co-op office and university relations channel in parallel, because that is how at least one Insulet intern describes getting in.
Which Insulet Internship Programs Should You Target?
Insulet runs three distinct student programmes under its Global Student Program, each on a different calendar and aimed at a different stage of a student’s academic timeline.
| Programme | Focus | Duration | Key details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Six-Month Co-op | Biomedical, mechanical, industrial and computer engineering; business administration; supply chain | 6 months (Jan–Jun or Jul–Dec) | Onsite in Acton, MA; $25–$34/hr (prior cycle); cross-functional with Supply Chain, R&D, Quality and Manufacturing |
| Summer Internship | Broader disciplines including business administration, finance and engineering; functions include business operations, R&D and manufacturing | 12 weeks | Undergraduate, college-level students; project-based with mentorship |
| Recent Graduate Programme | Engineering, IT and business administration (bachelor’s or master’s) | Ongoing (all start in June) | Full-time early-career entry; pipeline from co-op and internship |
See all openings at the Insulet careers board. The co-op is the deepest student option and opens the earliest each cycle. Graduate students can target medical affairs, engineering and marketing tracks.
What Are the Eligibility Requirements?
Eligibility requirements come from the prior-cycle Procurement co-op requisition (Acton, January–June 2026) and Insulet’s student programmes page. The summer internship’s specific requirements are not published (no US summer intern requisition was available to read).
• Enrolment: currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree programme in engineering, business administration, supply chain or a related field (co-op); “undergraduate, college-level students in broader disciplines” (summer internship).
• GPA: minimum 3.0 (co-op requisition and Vault’s employer-submitted profile, which lists 3.00–3.49).
• Prior experience: not required but preferred for the co-op. The summer internship’s experience requirement is not published.
• Work model: onsite in Acton, Massachusetts. The co-op posting was explicitly labelled “(Onsite).” Professional roles at Insulet are often hybrid, but student roles are not.
Does Insulet Sponsor Visas for Student Roles?
Not stated. No Insulet requisition or careers page read for this research addresses sponsorship in either direction. The EEO paragraph is standard and silent on the question. International students should ask the recruiter directly rather than assuming.
What Skills Does Insulet Look For, and How Do You Build Them?
Insulet’s skills picture comes from one prior-cycle US co-op job description (Procurement, Acton, January–June 2026) and first-hand Vault intern accounts of the engineering tracks. The co-op requisition is specific: Excel and PowerPoint are stated requirements, Power BI is preferred, and the work spans purchasing, supply planning, cost reduction, costed bill of materials (CBOM) support and supplier management across global contract manufacturers. The engineering interns on Vault describe building actual Omnipods for testing, designing manufacturing fixtures, testing them on the assembly line, and running root cause analyses on production data. No US summer intern requisition was available to read, so the summer internship’s specific skills are genuinely unknown. The honest advice: Excel and BI capability are the stated screen, and regulated-industry exposure is the differentiator people who have been through Insulet’s process keep naming.
What Insulet looks for in interns
Skills across 2 Insulet intern & analyst job descriptions · 1 prior-cycle US co-op JD (Procurement, Jan–Jun 2026) plus role-labelled Vault intern accounts
Method: 1 prior-cycle co-op JD read via aggregator mirror plus Vault intern survey accounts. n = 2 sources; no current-cycle US JD is available. Frequency scores reflect stated requirement level, not a large sample.
How Is Demand for Medical Device & Diabetes Technology Interns Moving Right Now?
Medical device & diabetes technology intern hiring right now: September 2026
Across US medical device and diabetes technology intern postings tracked this cycle · aggregate market data, all employers
September 2026 is this tracker’s baseline month. The signal now is convergence: medical device companies are hiring the same data-literate, software-aware engineering students that pure-play tech wants, and the ones with mission-driven products like the Omnipod have a recruiting advantage they are leaning into.
Method: aggregate analysis of US medical device and diabetes technology intern postings, September 2026 baseline. Sample indexes under half of all US postings; figures show direction and relative level, not total market share.
Build These Skills Before You Apply
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| Skill (from real JDs) | JD evidence | Externship that builds it |
|---|---|---|
| Regulated-industry documentation & compliance | Co-op: Good Documentation Practices; “learn on the job about the functionality of our medical device”; Vault interns: “continuously updating necessary informational documents” | Pfizer Advanced AI-Powered Document Intelligence |
| Supply chain & operational strategy | Co-op: purchasing support, supply-planning PO support, supplier management, cost reduction pipeline, CBOM costing, interfacing with global contract manufacturers | Amazon Fulfillment Center Operational Strategy |
| Data analysis & spend analytics | Co-op: “Procurement Spend Data collection”; “Highly proficient in Excel required; Power BI preferred”; Vault interns: “collect data from various parts of the assembly line and analyze it to perform root cause analyses” | Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis |
How close is the overlap? The Pfizer project puts a regulated life-sciences name and a documentation workflow on a resume for a company whose own co-op requisition says interns are “expected to learn about the functionality of our medical device.” The Amazon operations project rehearses the supply-chain and vendor-management work that is the Procurement co-op’s entire brief, and the Breaking Games analysis delivers the Excel and data-analytics evidence the requisition screens on.
What Is the Insulet Application and Interview Process Like?
Insulet’s application process can start through three channels, and the interview format is described by a Vault intern survey respondent:
1. Apply directly at insulet.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/insuletcareers. This is the only board Insulet names, and Vault confirms it. A cover letter is not required; the short-answer questions on the application are.
2. Use your university’s co-op office or career services. A Vault intern describes getting in through connecting with university relations at a school event, where the contact passed the intern’s email to hiring managers. If your school runs a formal co-op programme (Northeastern visibly places students at Insulet’s Acton site), that is a parallel pipeline.
3. Three interviews, all behavioural. A Vault intern reports: “I had three interviews with managers and those on the onboarding team. The interviews were mainly behavioral questions, with no technical questions.” For an engineering internship at a medical device company, that is the opposite of what most candidates over-prepare for.
4. Offer and onboarding. The co-op starts in January or July; the summer internship starts around June. Onsite in Acton, Massachusetts.
Experienced candidates on r/MedicalDevices consistently describe Insulet’s full-time hiring process as slow, but the intern interview path appears cleaner: three rounds, behavioural, with a described emphasis on understanding the candidate’s goals and fit. Prepare stories about cross-functional work and learning on the job, not equations.
What the Community Says
Reddit has no usable discussion of Insulet’s internship itself. The one student thread, from a Northeastern co-op candidate in 2020, contains no experience content (the substance moved to DMs). The cards below draw on Vault intern-survey accounts, Glassdoor and Insulet’s own employer-published testimonials.
Insulet interns describe assembling the actual Omnipods used in testing and running quality tests on them. One mechanical engineering intern told Vault: “Day-to-day duties include building pods for testing, running quality tests, and continuously updating necessary informational documents.” Another designs manufacturing equipment fixtures and tests them on the assembly line, then collects production data for root cause analyses. For a medical device internship, that is unusually hands-on with the shipping product.
Candidates over-prepare technically for medtech engineering internships. Insulet’s own interns say the interview rounds were behavioural: “I had three interviews with managers and those on the onboarding team. The interviews were mainly behavioral questions, with no technical questions.” The interviews were described as a good time to ask managers what the day-to-day actually looks like.
A former Insulet co-op who had also interned at other medical device companies rates Insulet the best of them: “As a former Co-op here at Insulet, as well as someone who has worked at other medical device companies as an intern, Insulet has, by far, been the best environment to grow and learn. The people here genuinely want me to succeed.” He also turned an idea he had as an early-career engineer into a formal patent application.
How Do You Stand Out at a Mission-Driven Medical Device Company?
Three moves, all executable before the postings open. First, learn what an Omnipod actually is before the interview: tubeless delivery, the three-day wear cycle, how Omnipod 5 closes the loop with a CGM, and that Insulet is extending the Pod platform to non-insulin drugs in other therapeutic areas. The co-op requisition says outright that “the candidate is expected to learn on the job about the functionality of our medical device,” and arriving already able to explain the product puts you ahead of that expectation rather than behind it. Second, get regulated-industry exposure on your resume. The single most repeated advice on r/MedicalDevices about breaking into Insulet is that medical device or pharmaceutical experience is the differentiator, and a finished project at a regulated life-sciences company fills that gap concretely. Third, prepare behavioural answers, not technical ones: Insulet’s own interns describe three rounds of behavioural interviews with no technical questions, which is counter-intuitive for an engineering role and means the stories you tell matter more than the equations you solve.
What Other Companies Should You Consider?
Insulet’s peer set spans diabetes technology and the broader Boston-corridor medical device cluster, all recruiting from the same engineering and co-op talent pool.
- Medtronicthe direct competitor in insulin pumps and the largest medical device company in the world; much larger, more structured intern programmeGuide →
- Abbottmakes the FreeStyle Libre CGM that Omnipod 5 integrates with; diabetes care is a core divisionGuide →
- Boston Scientificthe obvious Massachusetts alternative: a large, Marlborough-headquartered device company drawing from the same New England co-op poolGuide →
- Becton Dickinsonmajor player in injection and drug-delivery devices, precisely where Insulet is extending its Pod platform to non-insulin subcutaneous drugsGuide →
Our engineering internships guide maps the full landscape of medical device and engineering opportunities, timeline by timeline.
FAQ
Can I still apply for a summer 2026 Insulet internship?
No. The summer 2026 cohort has already completed, and those requisitions are no longer on Insulet’s board. As of September 7, 2026, Insulet’s Workday board carries 176 open requisitions and zero US intern or co-op roles. The next cycle to watch for is the January–June 2027 co-op (expected autumn 2026) and the summer 2027 internship (expected late 2026 to early 2027).
What is the difference between an Insulet internship and a co-op?
The co-op is six months, runs January–June or July–December, and targets biomedical, mechanical, industrial and computer engineering, business administration and supply chain students. The summer internship is 12 weeks and is open to broader disciplines including business administration, finance and engineering. Search the Workday board for both words; Insulet titles them “Co-op, …” and “Intern, …” separately.
How much does an Insulet student role pay?
Insulet’s January–June 2026 Procurement co-op posting in Acton listed a US base range of $25.00 to $34.00 per hour, with Insulet’s standard note that the range reflects base salary only and that individual pay depends on location, skills, experience and education. No summer internship rate has been published.
What GPA do I need for an Insulet student role?
The co-op requisition states a minimum GPA of 3.0, and Vault’s employer-submitted profile lists a minimum band of 3.00–3.49. Treat 3.0 as a real screen.
Where is the Insulet internship based?
Acton, Massachusetts, at Insulet’s headquarters at 100 Nagog Park, about 25 miles northwest of Boston. The prior-cycle co-op was explicitly labelled “(Onsite).” Insulet also runs intern programmes in Malaysia and a trainee programme in Mexico, but those are separate, non-US pipelines.
What is the Insulet interview like?
A Vault intern describes three interviews with managers and the onboarding team, mainly behavioural questions with no technical questions. Prepare stories about cross-functional work, learning on the job and problem solving rather than technical drills.
Does an Insulet internship lead to a full-time job?
Insulet does not publish a conversion rate. It does publish a named example: Jakob Morrow, now an Associate Systems Engineer in Verification and Validation, describes himself as a former Insulet co-op. The company also runs a recent-graduate programme for bachelor’s and master’s holders in engineering, IT and business administration where all new hires start in June each year.
Does Insulet sponsor visas for interns?
Not stated. No Insulet requisition or careers page addresses sponsorship in either direction. Ask the recruiter directly.
Insulet’s US student postings are not live yet, and there is no talent community to join while you wait. The honest next step is to build the evidence the application will need: Excel and BI proficiency, regulated-industry exposure, and a finished project. A remote Externship turns “interested in medical devices” into a completed deliverable a winter 2027 application can point at.
About the Author
Bifei Wang has spent 17 years focused on human flow and the growth of young professionals, spanning international education, career training and coaching, and recruitment process outsourcing. Over 7 years at Extern, he has had one-on-one sessions with thousands of students exploring careers in consulting, finance, tech, marketing, and data, giving him a firsthand view of how the job market has shifted for early-career professionals and what it actually takes to break in.
