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Sr. R&D Software Engineer - Shockwave Medical

Johnson & Johnson
Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Jul 2025
💰 $189,000/yr($103,000/yr$189,000/yr)

About the role

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:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Sr. R&D Software Engineer – Shockwave to join our team located in Santa Clara, CA.

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/.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Ready to join a team that’s pioneering the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Our Shockwave Medical portfolio aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.

Position Overview

The Sr. R&D Software Engineer will be focused on Software Engineering and will use design and technical skills in the development of embedded software for innovative electronic products to treat peripheral and heart valve diseases. The Sr. R&D Software Engineer will participate on multiple cross-functional development teams that manage projects from concept through commercialization and will perform and support a variety of development and engineering activities focused on embedded software design and development.

Essential Job Functions

  • Design and develop software for medical device product(s) in full compliance with the company’s Design Control requirements and consistent with FDA, ISO, and MDD requirements.
  • Participate on cross-functional development teams that manage projects from concept through commercialization.
  • Responsible for knowing and planning activities consistent with the company’s quality policy and quality objectives.
  • Responsible for ensuring lab notebooks are documented in a timely manner and consistent with the applicable SOP.
  • Design and development of RTOS embedded software for use in medical devices.
  • Understanding of hardware communications drivers such as 1-Wire, I2C, SPI, RS232, USB, CAN communication protocols.
  • Development of technical specifications from Product Level requirements.
  • Development, execution, and documentation of test plans.
  • Development, execution and functional verification to medical device standards.
  • Initiate and conduct design reviews.
  • Support of medical device company audit processes.
  • Work with engineers in the development of design concepts.
  • Other duties as assigned.

 Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with 5+ years’ experience in engineering preferably in the medical device industry or a master’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with 3+ years’ experience in engineering preferably in the medical device industry.
  • Demonstrated Proficiency in C language programming, C++ is a plus/desirable.
  • Experience with discrete microprocessors and/or Medical Grade Single Board Computers.
  • Proficient in the use of software development tools including compilers, assemblers, emulators, and in-circuit debugging tools, Oscilloscopes and Logic Analyzers.
  • Develop firmware for e

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