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

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Job Function:

Career Programs

Job Sub Function:

R&D LDP

Job Category:

Career Program

All Job Posting Locations:

Brussels Brussels-Capital Region Belgium 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 Raynham Massachusetts United States of America Redwood City California United States of America Santa Clara California United States of America West Chester Pennsylvania United States of America

Job Description:

About MedTech

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 are searching for the best talent for the Research and Development Leadership Development Program- (RDLDP) Full-Time Class of 2026.

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 Graduate Program (masters degree) 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.

Primary Locations:

• Massachusetts: Raynham

• Florida: Jacksonville

• Ohio: Cincinnati

• Pennsylvania: West Chester

• New Jersey: Raritan

• California: Irvine Redwood City Santa Clara

Additional Locations: (Global Regulatory Affairs/Public Policy)

• United States: Cincinnati OH

• Belgium: Brussels

This job posting is anticipated to close on November 7th 2025. The Company may however extend this time-period in which case the posting will remain available on to accept additional applications.

Eligibility for severance.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation external applicants please contact us via . internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$99700 (MA/MS) $104500 (MA/MA Robotics Engineers)

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

The Company maintains highly competitive performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporations performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Companys discretion on an individual basis. This position is eligible for a sign-on and/or early incentive bonus. Subject to the terms of their respective plans employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical dental vision life insurance short- and long-term disability business accident insurance and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans employees are eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Companys long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay including Floating Holidays 13 days per calendar year Work Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave 10 days Volunteer Leave 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off 80 hours Additional information can be found through the link below. For additional general information on Company benefits please go to: -