Staff Mechanical Engineer - R&D Robotics

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 Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson, Robotics and Digital (RAD) Solutions is recruiting for a Staff Mechanical Engineer - R&D Robotics located in Santa Clara, CA.

Robotics and Digital Solutions, is part of Johnson & Johnson Med Tech. At Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions, we’re changing the trajectory of health for humanity, using robotics to enhance healthcare providers’ abilities and improve patients’ diagnoses, treatments, and recovery times. Johnson & Johnson Robotics was established in 2020 with the integration of Auris Health, Verb Surgical, C-SATS, and Ethicon. It comprises three key med-tech platforms: Flexible Robotics (MONARCH®), Surgical Robotics (OTTAVA™), and Digital Solutions. Join our collaborative, rapidly growing teams in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City and Santa Clara), Cincinnati, and Seattle. You’ll collaborate on breakthrough medical technologies that unite multiple subject areas to build a connected digital ecosystem that advances medical professionals’ skills and improves patient outcomes.

You will contribute to the development of a complex robotic medical platform. For a self-motivated individual, this is a unique opportunity to jump into the middle of a fast-paced environment passionate about quantitative results and delivery of a platform that exceeds expectations.

Overview:

We’re looking for a highly motivated person who is passionate about mechanical design and applying this knowledge to the field of medical robotics. You’ll be part of a fast-paced environment within a multi-disciplinary engineering team which is focused on quantitative results and delivery of a system that exceeds expectations of the customer. As an experienced professional, you will lead projects, mentor engineers, communicate within and across teams, and demonstrate and share your sophisticated mechanical engineering knowledge to drive projects to completion. In addition to team collaboration, you'll also actively work on results-oriented individual projects within medical robotics.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Mechanical Engineering R&D team, you will contribute to the development of a robotic platform for surgical applications focusing on large systems, sophisticated actuators, structural designs, instrument manipulators, instrument interfaces, robotic setup joint systems and electronic packaging.

• Understand system and subsystem-level requirements and component capabilities in order to design elegant solutions to problems which may appear to be highly constrained.

• Design and create electromechanical prototypes which can be used to inform and drive design decisions.

• Provide hands-on, troubleshooting, process and manufacturing assistance in support of a rapid development cycle.

• Create design solutions which utilize engineering methods with good documentation processes and be able to release design documentation through an ECO process.

• Ability and willingness to work through all phases of product development from conceptualization to mass production.

• Must be capable of working independently and in a team, while being flexible, self-motivated, curious and willing to redefine the world of medical robotics.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, And Experience:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar Engineering field with 7+ years of industry experience designing and building electromechanical systems.

• Demonstrated excellence in both mechanical and electromechanical mechanism design.

• Proven experience with various types of motors, encoders, sensors, and geartrain, torque transfer, and linear guide hardware.

• Experience designing for manufacturability and solid understanding of common manufacturing proc