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Research & Development Leadership Development Program

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

The Program
Be part of exciting projects while honing your professional skills. The Research & Development Leadership Development Program (RDLDP) is designed to help talented engineering students develop the technical skills, business acumen, and cross-functional proficiencies to lead and create innovative ideas, products, and services for people around the world.

The Opportunity

Full-time (three-year, U.S.-based)
Our MedTech Research & Development Leadership Development Program (RDLDP) is a three-year dynamic rotational program that offers exciting and unrivaled assignment experiences supporting a wide variety of highly specialized, cutting-edge R&D teams, such as: New Product Development, Design, Orthopedic Laboratory Testing, Manufacturing, Design Quality, and Bioengineering.

  • You will have opportunities to participate and/or lead in rotational assignments encompassing entire project or a large portion of a major project. This may include resolving advanced materials, process, inspection/testing or procedural approaches to advance a medical device through the pipeline process into full R&D, and potentiallv into commercialization
  • Support of products' design development, manufacturing, and commercialization, leveraging technical expertise to anticipate and proactively address challenges and risks.
  • Increase the productivity of product's design utilizing CAD, improve the quality of projects, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing.
  • Engineer capabilities required to develop and deliver automated medical devices - including requisite instruments, advanced imaging, and user interface / experience.
  • Pursue a number of internal developmental training programs as well as externally recognized qualifications such as Process Design Excellence.
  • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced cross functional, technologically advanced corporate environment in a program focused on developing individual engineers capable of pursuing careers across medical device businesses and high-volume manufacturers.

Internship program (12 weeks over summer)

  • An introduction to various R&D platforms, focusing on selecting high performers for the full-time program upon graduation

Who We're Looking For

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By participating in the program, you'll receive quality classroom training, allowing you to connect with your RDLDP peers and the broader R&D community. You'll also receive exciting internal development training opportunities and externally recognized qualifications, like process design excellence, to help advance your career path. There are also opportunities to gain a strong foundation in the technical skills, business acumen and cross-functional proficiencies you need to succeed as an R&D leader.

  • Current graduate students enrolled in an Engineering Graduate Program (Master's or PhD) graduating by June 2024
  • Preferred Majors: Mechanical, Robotics, Electrical, Computer, Systems, Software, Materials Science, Biomedical and Computer Science
  • Strongly preferred skill/experience: Machine Learning, loT, Embedded Software, Deep Machine Learning, Prototyping, Robot Design, Systems Reliability, Firmware, and hardware integration
  • Minimum GPA of 3.3 strongly preferred
  • Valid leadership experience, R&D Internship highly preferred
  • Ability to relocate anywhere in the U.S. as required by the programs rotations
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