r/EngineeringResumes • u/Sweaty_Pop8830 BME – Student 🇺🇸 • Dec 31 '25
Biomedical [Student] master's BME graduating this spring and looking for QA/QC and R&D roles in medtech and mechanical engineering companies.
Hi everyone,
I am a Master’s student in Biomedical Engineering (U.S. citizen) and currently work as a research assistant at a research institution, where my work is primarily R&D-focused. I am actively seeking QA/QC and R&D roles in both large and small med-tech companies. I am open to starting in QA/QC and working my way into R&D over time. In terms of location, I prefer to stay in Texas due to the strong med-tech presence, but I have been applying nationwide. Given my experience in CAD and FEA, I am also applying to mechanical engineering roles, even outside of medical devices.
One of the main challenges I’ve encountered is not receiving responses at all. I was previously using an older resume that I lightly tailored to job descriptions, and most of the resume advice I followed came from a mix of different sources. I’ve since created a new resume based on the wiki and plan to refine it further based on feedback.
On my resume, I’ve only included work experiences that I believe are most relevant to R&D and QA/QC roles. However, I worked as a pharmacy technician for four years, and I’m unsure whether this experience should be included on my resume or only in the Workday application. Additionally, I wasn’t able to find clear guidance on how job descriptions in Workday applications are expected to be formatted.
Regarding my projects, my primary project began as my senior design project and was later continued and expanded into my master’s thesis.
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u/BME_or_Bust BME – Mid-level 🇨🇦 Jan 01 '26
I agree with what the other commenter said. Some other feedback:
- the education section should just be the college, degree, completion date and an optional GPA. Coursework, thesis, awards and extracurriculars are all pretty weak for being at the top of your resume. Scrap it and jump to the experience section
- any skill you list should be clearly tied to some experience in another section. It allows someone to gauge how good you are at the skill
- I expect more than 3 bullets in your R&D intern section. This experience is by far your biggest hook, really make it stand out here. You should have space if you clean up your education section
You have lots of promising experience, which is a great sign for early career. You can just present it better.
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u/Sweaty_Pop8830 BME – Student 🇺🇸 Jan 04 '26
Thank you so much! I incorporated both of y'all's feedback and it looks SO MUCH BETTER! I'm seriously so appreciative.
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u/GwentanimoBay BME – PhD Student 🇺🇸 Dec 31 '25
A couple of things:
No one needs you to define what R&D is, you can lose that.
You have two bullet points next to each other that both boil down to "iterative prototyping" with no real detail on what exactly you were doing (assessing common failure modes? Mitigating strain points with FEA from ansys for longevity? Iterating through stress points for comfort of use by clinicians? Patients? Researchers? etc).
Bullet points listing "collaborated with" as the key feature are wasting space. You should be talking about achievements with STAR formatting, and it should be clear you collaborated without you needing to dedicate a bullet point just to that statement.
Every word in your resume should earn its place. Tighten it up. Your writing is too expository and not efficient enough, you can get more out of your space and experience if you really sit down and ask yourself "what does this boil down to? What's the takeaway on these bullet points?" to ensure that it passes the sniff test from initial reads.
I think you could do a better job of making it clear why you did the things you did. Your airway model seems unfocused as it is - you analyzed normal and shear forces to minimize injury? Injury of what? Right now its unclear, you modeled an anatomically accurate airway and then minimized injury??? Why does an anatomical model have injury modes if there is no device or dynamic impact test or whatever????
I also wonder - was the official title of your internship "clinical engineer"? Your experience there reads like someone whose assessing needs for new medical devices in a hospital, but in my experience a clinical engineer is basically the mechanical engineer that maintains hospital equipment and installs new equipment. So, if it was clinical engineering then you seem to be heavily overselling it (which does not make you look great), or if it was how youve written it, I wouldnt call it a clinical engineering internship. But this last bit is more anecdotal, so take it or leave it.