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Robotics Software Engineer

Johnson & Johnson
Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Oct 2025
💰 $138,000/yr($86,000/yr$138,000/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:

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

We are searching for the best talent for our Robotics Software Engineer, based in Santa Clara, CA.  

You will be:  

  • Advancing patients’ standard-of-care as an R&D contributor to the development of the only multi-specialty flexible surgical robot on the market  

  • Bringing prototypes into C++ product level software in an FDA-regulated environment  

  • Building versatile, modular, and real-time capable software infrastructure for robotic functionality independent of a specific task and hardware  

  • Developing detailed software documentation using documentation tools following software documentation standard methodologies  

  • Designing and performing testing and validation of selected solutions  

  • Participating in design discussions and code reviews  

  • Understanding system and software input requirements to drive software development  

  • Working multi-functionally with clinical engineers, system engineers, and scientists to architect and develop software applications  

Qualifications / Requirements:  

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with focus on Robotics or related field

  • Fundamental understanding of robotics principles and modeling (e.g. Robot Kinematics, manipulability, reachability, C-space)  

  • Experience with OO and strongly typed programming languages, preferably C++  

  • Experience with Linux and development in Linux environments  

  • Experience with RTOS  

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience with scripting languages, preferably Python  

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. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

Salary Range $86,000 - $138,000 Bay Area Only

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of thei

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