Flex

Flex runs early-career programs across several geographies:

• Paid internships and co-ops for students in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, EMEA, and APAC, part-time or full-time
• Multi-year paid apprenticeships in EMEA combining on-site work with vocational school, with roughly 80% of training at the Flex site
• In Austria specifically, technical and IT/app-development apprenticeship tracks that take applications from November through March for a September start, the same dual-training format used across Austria's national apprenticeship system

A candidate weighing Flex against another EMS employer is choosing between a short internship season and a multi-year apprenticeship tied to a fixed annual application window, not a single interchangeable track.

US Department of Labor filings show the pattern in practice: Flex's US entity filed 43 H-1B/PERM cases in fiscal year 2025 with a 97.7% approval rate, a small number relative to a company of roughly 150,000 employees. For an international candidate, sponsorship is realistic but not a given by default; it is worth confirming for the specific role and country before treating an offer as guaranteed to include it.

Rather than building one company's own products, Flex manufactures across automotive, cloud and data-center, healthcare, and industrial end markets under contract for other companies' brands, a history that has included Apple's Mac Pro, Fitbit wearables, and Huawei telecom hardware. For an early-career engineer, that spread means a single employer can offer work across genuinely different industries and product types rather than one product line, though which sector and site you land in depends on the specific business unit you join, not the company as a whole.