Principal Mechanical 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 Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Ethicon’s Robotic & Digital Solutions team, part of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, is recruiting for a Principal Mechanical Engineer, 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.. For more information, visit www.ethicon.com.

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:

• BS/BA (MS or PhD preferred) Mechanical Engineering or similar required, minimum of 10+ years of relevant working 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 processes: machining, casting, stamping, forming, injection molding.

• Comfortable with all phases of product deve