Read from 32 live postings
Getting hired in Engineering
Mechanical, electrical and electronic, mechatronic, manufacturing and chemical engineering students.
Toughest gate seen
CGPA 3.00
Shell, Infineon
Placement length
5–6 months
What the better employers ask for
Internship allowance
RM 700–1,800
Per month, as published
Postings read
32
In this field, read in full
Engineering pays more reliably than most fields, and Penang manufacturing pays at the top of the range.
Quick answers
What do employers require for a Engineering internship in Malaysia?
We read 32 Malaysian Engineering postings in full on 4 August 2026. Toughest gate seen: CGPA 3.00 (Shell, Infineon). Placement length: 5–6 months (what the better employers ask for). Mandarin is a stated requirement, not a bonus, at several manufacturing and construction employers. Check the language line before you spend an application.
How much does a Engineering internship pay in Malaysia?
Employers in our sample (32 postings, 4 August 2026) published internship allowances of RM 700–1,800 a month. Engineering pays more reliably than most fields, and Penang manufacturing pays at the top of the range.
Do you need a licence or registration to work in Engineering?
Yes. The postings we read asked for Graduate engineer registration, issued by Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) (required at Meinhardt). This field gates on a credential issued by a statutory body, not by your university. It takes weeks to months, often costs money, and a student who has not started the process cannot apply at all. This is the thing computing students never encounter and everyone else trips over.
What do Engineering employers accept as proof you can do the work?
CAD files and lab work. Employers name SolidWorks, AutoCAD, PLC and SCADA directly, and several ask for hands-on skills a lecture cannot give you: welding, calibration, clean room work. Named in the postings: SolidWorks, AutoCAD, PLC / SCADA, Excel, MATLAB, SAP and Linux.
The licence you need before you apply
This field gates on a credential issued by a statutory body, not by your university. It takes weeks to months, often costs money, and a student who has not started the process cannot apply at all. This is the thing computing students never encounter and everyone else trips over.
Graduate engineer registration
Issued by Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM)
Required at Meinhardt
What counts as proof here
CAD files and lab work. Employers name SolidWorks, AutoCAD, PLC and SCADA directly, and several ask for hands-on skills a lecture cannot give you: welding, calibration, clean room work.
Named in the postings
These are the tools and standards employers wrote into the requirements block for this field, not a general recommendation.
The trap in this field
Mandarin is a stated requirement, not a bonus, at several manufacturing and construction employers. Check the language line before you spend an application.
Who was hiring
Bosch, Shell, Infineon, TE Connectivity, Keysight, AMD, Sandisk, TotalEnergies, B. Braun, Carlsberg
Employers named across the 32 postings read for this field. Postings expire; the names indicate who recruits at this level, not what is open today.
Another field
Drawn from 245 Malaysian postings read in full on 4 August 2026. The market-wide patterns are on the main page: What Malaysian employers actually ask a student for