The Performance Testing internship opportunity will design, conduct, and analyze experimental approaches to replicate adverse conditions witnessed on the course within our controlled test environments. You will create standard operating procedures (SOPs) for how to test each club in the bag in adverse conditions such as wet, rough, that aligns with experimentally collected data. Reports detailing experimental approach and statistical alignment verifying designed SOPs should be expected.
Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities:
- Experimental design and data collection (outdoors with players and indoors within our test environment; including use of our robot)
- Rigorous analysis and understanding of experimental results to drive next steps
- Programming to manipulate, store, analyze, and report data
- Frequent interaction with stakeholders from multiple small teams within RDE (i.e. ball team, irons, MW, wedge, etc.)
- Proper documentation, storage, and reporting of techniques / approaches / pertinent data
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Strong analytical, reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work across cross functional teams and manage priorities to accomplish multiple tasks
- Passion for sports required, fundamental understanding of/experience playing golf highly preferred
- Practical knowledge and experience in experiment design, data collection and measurement techniques (experimental rigor)
- Expertise in statistical analysis and physics (ability to understand test results and drive decision/next steps
- Curiosity and desire to solve challenging and unique problems with efficiency and attention to detail
- Experience with MATLAB
- Expectations are you will be available onsite for the entirety of our summer internship program: Dates are from 6/16/2025 - 8/15/2025
Education, Work Experience, and Professional Certifications:
- Undergraduate, completed junior or senior year of Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Work Environment / Physical Requirements:
- Normal office conditions with extensive computer and phone usage.
- Ability to work extended hours as necessary.
- Able to work efficiently and accurately in an atmosphere of frequent interruption.
- Light physical effort equal to frequent lifting or moving of lightweight materials.
- Frequent travel may be required.
The above description is intended to show in general terms the responsibilities for which the position exists and the type, level and work which must be satisfactorily performed to be successful in the position. However, this description is not intended to be an all-inclusive listing of work requirements, nor an all-inclusive list of skills and abilities required to do the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the duties, responsibilities, and activities or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions at any time with or without notice. Nothing in this job description changes the at-will relationship between the Company and its employees. The expected hourly rate for this position is $20 per hour.
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Overview:
Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, TaylorMade Golf is a leading manufacturer of high performance golf equipment, golf balls and accessories. TaylorMade has a history of innovative industry-leading products such as the newly launched Stealth family headlined by the 60-layer Carbon Twist Face Stealth Carbonwood Driver. TaylorMade's technological advancements touch all sectors of the golf industry with products like P Series irons, Milled Grind 3 wedges, TP5/TP5X golf balls and Spider putters. A major force across the world's professional tours, TaylorMade has an unrivaled athlete portfolio that includes Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, Rickie Fowler, Matthew Wolff, Harry Higgs, SH Park, Charley Hull, Maria Fassi and Sierra Brooks.
History:
In the spring of 1979 a golf equipment salesman named Gary Adams took out a $24,000 loan on his home and founded the TaylorMade Golf Company. He rented a 6,000 square-foot building that at one time housed a television assembly plant. Counting him, there were three employees and a single, innovative product: a 12-degree driver cast of stainless steel. This new metalwood looked and sounded different from a wooden wood, and most important, it performed differently. The clubhead's perimeter-weighting offered greater forgiveness on mis-hits, while the lower center of gravity made it easier to launch the ball in the air. Adams, the son of a golf professional, was adamant that TaylorMade clubs maintain ties to what true golfers perceived an authentic golf club should look and feel like. They were committed to combining innovation with authenticity, to always be passionate about the game, and pledged to be competitive - to work hard to establish itself and grow. These four tenets would take them far.
Since the creation of the first metalwood in 1979, the TaylorMade Golf Company has established a legacy of breaking from tradition to reach new thresholds of performance.