Applications Engineer Intern Summer 2025

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

Packaging Science / Food Science / Meat Science

Sealed Air combines industry leading material science, best-in-class service, and differentiated automated solutions to deliver world-class packaging solutions that solve our customer’s most critical packaging challenges. Our portfolio of widely recognized brands, including Cryovac® brand food packaging solutions and Bubble Wrap® brand cushioning, enable a safer and less wasteful food supply chain and protect valuable goods shipped around the world. 

Job Overview

 We are excited to offer a summer position (May-Aug) to highly motivated students currently pursuing a degree in packaging science, food science, or meat science.  This role will be located on the campus of our Global Headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina within our Research & Development group. This summer program offers applied experience that has a true impact on the business. The program includes opportunity to present to senior leadership teams, participate in formal training, interact with members of other departments (Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Field Quality, Supply Chain), and participate in campus-wide community service events.

This is a unique opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of food processing and packaging processes in the food, medical, and industrial markets.  You’ll work in a highly collaborative team environment and will have the ability to have direct influence on active innovation projects. Sealed Air utilizes our internship program as a pipeline for identifying and hiring top talent for full time employment within our R&D team. 

Responsibilities

• Apply your area of study to the development of new products and processes at Sealed Air.  Products may include multi-layer polymer films, foams, or packaging equipment and automation.
• Apply knowledge of packaging requirements for markets including food (dairy, fresh red meat, seafood, smoked & processed protein, etc), medical devices, and industrials
• Participate in shelf-life studies utilizing analytical methods, microbiology, and food discoloration
• Plan and conduct experiments under the direction of an experienced scientist/engineer
• Analyze results and assist with decision-making for next steps 
• Prepare reports and present results at technical meetings 
• Opportunity to lead a project including the management of timeline, execution, resources, and a final presentation of results and conclusions
• Some limited travel may be involved to manufacturing plants or customers

Qualifications

• Completed at least 2 years towards a bachelor's degree in packaging