J&J Technology XENA Software Engineering Off Cycle Co-Op – March to September 2026

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

Job Function:

Career Programs

Job Sub Function:

Technology LDP

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Career Program

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

J&J Technology XENA Software Engineering Off Cycle Co-Op – March to September 2026

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

About MedTech

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re 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 https://www.jnj.com/medtech

This is a hybrid role available in Raritan, NJ.

We are searching for the best talent for J&J Technology XENA Software Engineering Off Cycle Co-Op – March to September 2026

Purpose:

Our J&J Technology Co-op Program is comprehensive learning and professional experience in the technology space at one of the world’s leading health care companies. Your application and area of interest will be used to determine which one of our many exciting positions best fits you. Co-op positions are full-time opportunities expecting to last from March 30th, 2026 – September 18th, 2026. This program also works as a feeder pool for our Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP) for full-time employment upon completion of your degree. If you are selected for a co-op position, you will work directly with your manager as your start date approaches to confirm your exact schedule.

As a J&J XENA Software Engineer Co-Op join our XENA Developer Experience team. A successful candidate will support our XENA platform, with a strong focus on engineering solutions such as the Hosted VSCode IDE, contributing to our XENA CLI & SDK, and GenAI related platform and codebases.

Responsibilities: 

• Assist in engineering of a Hosted VSCode IDE based solution.
• Support the development and maintenance of Go (XENA CLI & SDK) & Python (GenAI MCP) based applications.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure software delivery processes are efficient and meet compliance standards.
• Assist in orchestrating automated deployments of applications via a GitOps (ArgoCD) approach.
• Participate in fixing and resolving build and deployment issues.
• Perform system and application monitoring to ensure efficient platform performance.
• Document processes and provide insights for improvements within DevOps lifecycle.
• Function independently on tasks and collaborate with team members and collaborators to achieve project goals.

Skills:

• Influencing and Impacting Others / Interpersonal Understanding
• Excellent communication, networking, and influencing skills
• High impact individual with the ability to lead, collaborate, challenge, and influence peers, subordinates and senior management to drive data quality measures and innovative strategies leading to business value/results
• Ability to drive resolution for critical issues by bringing in teams together – both J&J internal and external vendors
• A Change Agent with the ability to deal with ambiguity
• Maintains integrity and trust within and across all organizations and relationships
• Customer Orientation - Solicit and apply feedback from internal and external customers; Understand customers’ current and future expectations; Respond promptly to custome