Research & Development Leadership Development Program; RDLDP- Class

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Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and Med Tech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

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Career Programs

R&D LDP

Career Program

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Irvine, California, United States of America, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Redwood City, California, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

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We want you to write your own success story, spark bold innovations and become an expert at what interests and inspires you. If you want to take on today's biggest health challenges in a collaborative, supportive environment, and make a difference in the lives of people everywhere, set out on your path with the power of the world’s largest and most diversified healthcare products company beside you.

Opportunities to participate and/or lead in rotational assignments encompassing an entire project or a large portion of a major project: e.g., resolving advanced materials, process, inspection/testing or procedural approaches to advance a medical device through the pipeline process into full R&D and potentially even commercialization.

You will be responsible for:

Support product design, development, manufacturing and commercialization, leveraging technical expertise to anticipate and proactively address challenges and risks

Learn through opportunities to design new products, from building simulation models to developing kinematics models and performing stack-up analysis

Engineer capabilities required to develop and deliver automated medical devices, including requisite instruments, advanced imaging and user interface/experience

Perform deliverables involving fundamental research and characterization, process/product development, process/product improvement, test method development and/or equipment development

Pursue several internal developmental training programs as well as externally recognized qualifications, such as Design of Experiments (DOE), Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and Tolerance Analysis.

Work in a fast-paced, cross functional, technologically advanced environment in a program focused on developing individual engineers capable of pursuing careers across medical device businesses and high-volume manufacturers

Irvine, Redwood City, Santa Clara, CA

Cincinnati, OH

Jacksonville, FL

Raritan, NJ

Current graduate students enrolled in an engineering graduate program and on track to earn a master’s…