Development Engineering Manager (Surgical Robotics)

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States; fully onsite. The role may require up to 30% domestic and international travel.

Salary: $118,000–$203,550 per year.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and surgical technologies, including the OTTAVA surgical robotics platform.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Development Engineers through performance management, career growth, succession planning, and workload prioritization.
• Direct engineering execution for new product development, new product introduction, design transfer, component development, tooling, equipment, and manufacturing processes.
• Partner with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Product Management, Supplier Engineering, and external suppliers to align priorities, resources, risks, and execution plans.
• Drive design reviews, manufacturability assessments, DFM/DFA, design-to-cost, engineering analysis, process capability evaluation, and manufacturing readiness.
• Oversee technical documentation, verification, validation, process qualification, supplier development, and commercialization activities.
• Ensure compliance with quality systems, design controls, risk management, GMP, and applicable medical device regulations and standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent university degree required; Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related field preferred. A master’s degree is preferred.
• At least six years of relevant professional experience in product development, development engineering, manufacturing engineering, component development, or related technical functions in a regulated environment.
• Experience managing, coaching, or leading engineers, technical project teams, or cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Experience with new product development, new product introduction, design transfer, manufacturing readiness, DFM/DFA, design-to-cost, supplier collaboration, process development, and component qualification.
• Working knowledge of GD&T, tolerance analysis, statistical analysis, DOE, GR&R, PFMEA, process characterization, and process capability.
• Knowledge of medical device quality systems, design controls, risk management, and applicable regulatory standards, with strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in surgical robotics, capital equipment, complex medical devices, or highly regulated product development.
• Experience with injection molding, machining, laser welding, riveting, laser etching, soldering, pressing, joining, extrusion, over-molding, coating, or design for assembly.
• Experience with test method validation, equipment qualification, FAT, IQ, OQ, PQ, software validation, or manufacturing equipment release.
• Lean, Six Sigma, cost engineering, value engineering, design simplification, or strategic cost reduction experience.
• Experience developing engineering standards, metrics, dashboards, and operating mechanisms for matrixed or global technical teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment guided by the company’s Credo.
• Participation in retirement, pension, savings, and 401(k) plans.
• Eligibility for the long-term incentive program.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, personal and family time, parental leave, caregiver leave, bereavement leave, volunteer leave, and military spouse time-off.