Senior System Engineer, R&D

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:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Milpitas, California, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a Senior System Engineer, R&D located in Milpitas, California.

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

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose: The Senior System Engineer, R&D will support the system integration group in the development of ophthalmic surgical equipment. The candidate shall apply engineering, scientific, and clinical knowledge to participate in design control, new product development, and improvements to existing products.  The candidate will collaborate with team to develop system requirements and subsystem specifications, help critical vendors evaluation, have excellent hands-in skills to integrate, characterize and optimize the designs at system and sub-system levels and problem-solving skills to deal with complex and multidisciplinary system issues.

You will:

• Hands-on design, integration, and problem-solving for complex medical laser systems and mitigations.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teammates and suppliers or contractors to develop robust system and subsystems requirements with validated test methods
• Manage system and subsystem requirements with an emphasis on electrical, optics, mechanical, electrical, software and controls
• Coordinate with verification teams to ensure requirements are verifiable
• Guide system and subsystem teams though tradeoff decisions, balancing customer and business benefit with technical complexity, schedule risk, and other factors and become the Interface among internal R&D teams, cross functional teams, and external vendors.

Qualifications

Required:

• BS degree in system, electrical, software, mechanical, optical, physics, bio-medical engineering or any related engineering field required
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working on medical equipment or other complex optomechanical and electromechanical systems with a Bachelor’s degree OR 3+ years’ experience with MS OR  2+ years’ experience with PhD
• Strong proficiencies with at least one engineering field, i.e., system, electrical, computer science, mechanical, optical, physics, etc.
• Hands-on experience on system integration and test method development is required.
• Ability to solve complex problems required
• Highly organized and methodological, scientific approach
• Collaborative teammate with strong communication skills, written and verbal required
• Ability to travel up to 20%, international and domestic is required.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of system engineering methodologies like requirement development and management is highly preferred
• Experience with analytical tools(MATLAB, Python, R or related) is preferred Experience with statistical analysis and design of experiments (DOE) preferred.
• Ability to be a project or subtask leader on multi-functional teams preferred Experience developing medical device equipment is preferred.

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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. 

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Product Design, Research and Development, Scripting Languages, Software Development Management, Software Engineering Practices, Software Testing, Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$106,000.00 - $170,200.00

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