Spring 2025 R&D Co-op

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal.

Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, 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.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

The MedTech Organization, based in Raritan, New Jersey, was founded more than 80 years ago as a pioneer in suture development and manufacturing, helping to transform the safety and effectiveness of open surgery.

The MedTech Organization offers a broad range of products, platforms and technologies including- sutures, hemostasis products, surgical staplers, trocars, energy devices and synthetic mesh devices-that are used in a wide variety of minimally-invasive and open surgical procedures.

Specialties include support for treatment of colorectal and thoracic conditions, women's health conditions, hernias, oncology, and obesity.

Johnson & Johnson MedTech Surgery., based in Raritan, New Jersey, is recruiting for R&D Co-op for Spring 2025.

The R&D Co-op program provides each student with real-life hands-on experience, coaching and mentoring, networking opportunities, as well as the opportunity to meet people from various schools throughout the country.

The Co-op role will work with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers in the discovery and development of solutions to address important unmet surgical needs.

Responsibilities may include some or all of the following:


* Interact with surgeons/nurses/healthcare providers to understand unmet clinical needs and translate insights into device requirements.


* Conduct research and development work supporting design, development, and/or manufacturing of hemostats, sealants, adhesion prevention or other surgical products.


* Carry out experiments and perform laboratory procedures to support prototype and/or process development, evaluation, and optimization.


* Analyze experimental data, interpret results, prepare technical reports, present results, and recommendations to cross-functional project teams.


* Work with patent liaison and attorneys to protect intellectual property of new inventions when feasible.


* Follow safety and GxP guidelines including maintaining up-to-date training, following SOPs, maintaining equipment and lab supplies, and proper documentation of laboratory notebooks and logbooks.



* Be enrolled (not necessarily taking classes) in an accredited college/university during the Co-op session.


* Pursuing a Master or Doctoral degree (PhD) in Materials Science and Engineering, Polymer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, or a related technical field.


* Only students who have co...