Senior Electrical Engineer - R&D Robotics

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Base pay: $125,000–$201,250 per year

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops minimally invasive medical technologies, including robotic and digital solutions designed to improve diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and patient outcomes.

What you will do

• Own the full lifecycle development of printed circuit assemblies, from architecture and schematic design through PCB layout, prototyping, verification, documentation, reviews, and product release.
• Develop electrical solutions for sensing, motion, optical, and thermal subsystems in collaboration with electrical, mechatronics, mechanical, controls, software, and clinical engineers.
• Contribute to system architecture, design reviews, risk assessments, and failure mode analyses.
• Plan and execute component- and subsystem-level verification, including fixture-based testing, EMI/ESD evaluation, thermal analysis, troubleshooting, and design validation.
• Build prototypes, run experiments, debug hardware, and solve complex technical challenges through commercialization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 4+ years of experience, or a master’s degree with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience designing electronic hardware with Altium Designer or similar CAD tools.
• Knowledge of power integrity, signal integrity, EMC, and fault-tolerant design principles.
• Familiarity with microcontrollers, BLDC motor control systems, and SPI and I2C communication protocols.
• Strong laboratory skills in PCB bring-up, rework, debugging, and using oscilloscopes, power analyzers, and current probes.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems independently and collaborate effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with rigid and flexible PCAs, flex circuits, FFCs, clock springs, slip rings, or similar dynamic interconnects.
• Background in complex analog and digital electronics, power electronics, and safety-critical system design.
• Experience with electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic immunity, fast transient mitigation, and regulatory-driven electrical design.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, fast-paced environment involving multidisciplinary engineering and clinical teams.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, business accident, and legal insurance programs may be available.
• Retirement pension and 401(k) savings plans may be available.
• Annual performance bonus and eligibility for a long-term incentive program.
• Vacation, sick time, holiday pay, and work, personal, and family time benefits.