Senior Clinical Engineer - MONARCH

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:

Biomedical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is currently recruiting for a Senior Clinical Engineer - Monarch, 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/.

At Johnson & Johnson MedTech, 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 (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.

We'd love to have you on the team if you are a leader with a proven track record of managing complex R&D efforts, are detail oriented, and have a firm grasp of the system engineering principles, and are excited to work in a highly technical, fast-paced, and cross-functional environment!

As a member of the R&D team you will join us on our journey to design and build one of the world's most advanced medical robotic platforms. You will have the opportunity to understand user needs, establish clinical and engineering requirements, consider clinical risks, and identify solutions to guide product development. This role offers high autonomy and growth opportunities within the team as we progress towards realizing our vision.

Performance Objectives and Responsibilities:

• Become the R&D domain expert on lung anatomy and pathologies, as well as standard of care, and emerging technologies in the space of lung health and lung cancer.
• Utilize in-depth clinical, technical, and design control knowledge to collaborate with a cross-functional team to discover, define, develop, and validate a new product
• Research relevant disease states, treatment options, patient pathways, surgical techniques, and competitive technologies
• Discover unmet clinical needs in partnership with product management, establish customer requirements, and provide clinical input to engineering design requirements
• Develop test models and test methods for clinically relevant product evaluations
• Collaborate with physicians and key clinical users on procedure development and understanding product feedback
• Create and document new product clinical use workflows, assess clinical hazards, and propose potential mitigations
• Develop and execute a design validation testing strategy that ensures the product meets defined customer requirements while optimizing against constraints
• Support developing customer training materials, user manuals, labeling, and other supporting materials

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (e.g. Biomedical, Mechanical, Systems or related) is required.
• Must have a minimum of 5 years of related work experience in a medical technology company
• Candidates possessing a Master’s degree with + 4 years of experience will be considered.