Principal R&D Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Salary: $117,000–$201,250 per year

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and orthopaedic solutions, including joint reconstruction, trauma care, spine, robotics, and digital surgery products.

What you will do

• Lead systems engineering for a complex safety-critical surgical robotic platform across its full product lifecycle.
• Define system architecture and decompose clinical, user, system, hardware, and software requirements into clear, testable, traceable requirements.
• Integrate electromechanical hardware, embedded and application software, controls, sensing, actuation, and user interaction.
• Lead system-level risk management, design reviews, requirements traceability, verification strategies, and design control activities.
• Drive collaboration across software, electrical, mechanical, controls, clinical, quality, manufacturing, and verification teams.
• Support regulatory submissions, design transfer, product launch, post-market surveillance, and investigation of failures and nonconformances.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in systems engineering, software engineering, mechatronics, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of multidisciplinary systems engineering experience, including 5+ years with surgical robotic systems or complex medical devices.
• Experience with embedded systems, firmware or software testing, electromechanical systems, and product development lifecycles.
• Knowledge of requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, or Polarion.
• Familiarity with test automation and scripting tools such as Python, LabVIEW, or MATLAB.
• Strong technical writing, communication, statistical analysis, and sample size calculation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Class II or Class III medical devices.
• Certification in CQE, CQA, or Six Sigma.
• Experience with SAP Product Lifecycle Management, robotic automation, or model-based systems engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with an inclusive equal-opportunity workplace.
• Participation in a pension and 401(k) savings plan.
• Eligibility for a long-term incentive program.
• Vacation, sick time, holidays, parental leave, caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and volunteer leave.
• The Orthopaedics business is planned to become a standalone DePuy Synthes company, subject to legal, regulatory, and customary approvals.