Research and Development Leadership Development Program (RDLDP) 2026 Full-Time PhD

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

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However all applications will be considered.

Purpose: Our MedTech Research & Development Leadership Development Program (RDLDP) is a two-year dynamic rotational program that offers exciting and unrivaled assignment experiences supporting a wide variety of highly specialized innovative R&D teams such as New Product Development Design Orthopedic Laboratory Testing Manufacturing Design Quality and Bioengineering.

You will be responsible for:

• Opportunities to participate and/or lead in rotational assignments encompassing the entire project or a substantial 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 potentially 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 design utilizing CAD improve the quality of projects improve communications through documentation and 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 several 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.

Additional Responsibilities within Global Regulatory Affairs/Public Policy:

• Conduct rigorous policy-focused research synthesize evidence and produce a range of deliverables to inform regulatory strategy market access and ongoing policy dialogue.

• Help shape how we navigate global health policy regulatory science and biomedical innovation in a fast-moving medical device landscape.

• Translate complex policy and scientific concepts into clear actionable insights for cross-functional teams (R&D Regulatory Quality Clinical Marketing and Market Access).

• Contribute to thought leadership and public-facing communications to support policy advocacy and external engagement.

• Collaborate on study design evidence generation plans and dissemination activities (conferences webinars publications).

• Support project coordination and timelines for policy and regulatory initiatives including stakeholder engagement and reporting to leadership.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in an Engineering PhD Program graduating between May 2025 & June 2026

• The following engineering disciplines or specialties are preferred: Mechanical Mechatronics Robotics Electrical Computer Systems Software Computer Science Materials Science Biomedical Optical and Bioinformatics.

• The following concentration fields and/or skills are strongly preferred: Machine Learning IoT Embedded Software Deep Machine Learning Prototyping Robot Design Systems Reliability Camera Optics Image quality Vision or Image Quality Assessment Firmware and hardware integration.

• A minimum GPA of 3.3 is strongly preferred.

• You must have the ability to work closely with technical and non-technical personnel and have excellent communication skills with the ability to influence others.

• You must have the ability to demonstrate excellent critical thinking skills intellectual curiosity and a dedicated approach to achieving success.

• Validated leadership experience through extracurricular activities employment and/or internship experience is required. An R&D co-op or internship is highly preferred.

• Ability to relocate anywhere in the United States as required by the programs rotations a mandatory requirement.