Since a lot of us will be heading into the workforce soon, if you haven’t already, I think it would be helpful if we shared about medical device companies within this region of the US.
What are some companies in the NJ, PA, NY, DE, CT, MD, etc., region that come to mind? If you have or had experience in a company, what did you like or dislike?
Personally, I've only had the opportunity of working within laboratories so the companies that come to mind for me are:
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Agilent
- Bio-Rad
- Johnson&Johnson
- Roche Diagnostics
- PerkinElmer
It's also good to note that a lot of major hospitals have a biomedical engineering department that assists in the development and maintenance of equipment throughout the hospitals. For instance, I work at a hospital in NYC where there are multiple teams of biomedical engineers throughout the hospital: laboratory engineers, R&D engineers, OR engineers, etc. I work in the pathology laboratory where we work closely with biomedical engineers that specialize in automation. It's a small team so they work very closely together and are very driven in the success of the department. With hopes of becoming a part of their team, I enjoy that they are able to attend events that introduce new and upcoming laboratory equipment and allow them to "test drive". I look forward to getting into biomedical engineering as the opportunities are endless.
I work at RWJBH as a Service engineer so I get to work on a lot of medical devices on a daily basis. Just from talking with the engineers at particular companies I've heard good things about Philips, Hologic and Illumina. They all seem to have pretty good working environments from talking with the engineers and other who have worked in them the past. I am particularly looking into Philips because I plan on moving to Europe and they have loads of location both in the US and in Europe.
I am a manufacturing technician at Siemens Healthineers and I work with production, management, engineering, and quality teams to build, configure, test, and ship out clinical chemistry machines to customers. What I really enjoy about my current position is that all the employees are left to work independently without much interference from management and when shown to work with high proficiency and competence, management readily offers opportunities to advance. Management is also very attentive to the current situations within the product line and acknowledge that failure to meet any metrics for the month are rarely at the fault of the employees and regularly remind us of that in order to keep up morale. Aside from the healthy work environments the perks and benefits I get from being an employee such as the vision, health, and dental insurance, 401(k), amount of PTO, discounts, etc. are all very nice and make me look forward to seeing how far I can advance within the company as well as all the different projects I can be a part of during my time here.
Some of the big name companies that have locations on the East Coast include: Stryker, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers Squib, Becton Dickinson, Medtronic. I currently work as an intern at Weiss-Aug Surgical Products and one of the things that I really enjoy about my experience is being able to work on multiple programs and with multiple departments. I enjoy how working at a smaller company gives me the flexibility to take up different projects at once. While I always did want to start my career off at a big name company, I now appreciate the experience and value of starting off at a smaller company because of all the responsibility I was able to take on in a fast paced environment which really did help me develop time management skills and work efficiently in a high pressure situation as well as improve my problem solving skills.
Similar to @ac825 I also work as a service engineer under RWJBH. Right after undergrad with plans on continuing towards some level of higher education, this job provided the exposure I needed to medical devices in order to figure out exactly what direction I wanted to take my career in. I have learned about several companies who work on medical imaging equipment such as Philips, Bard, Sonosite, Siemens, and GE as well as worked on several radiation oncology assets such as those manufactured by Varian. The job at RWJBH also includes several of the same benefits highlighted by @pv223. Even through conducting research, I have been networking within several organizations which are focused on/have divisions specifically for cancer research and development such as Johnson & Johnson, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Mount Sinai.
