Staff R&D Engineer

Company: Johnson & Johnson
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: July 4, 2025

Job Description:

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: US331 CA Irvine - 31 Technology Dr Job Description: We are searching the best talent for an R &D Staff Engineer to join our MedTech Team located in Irvine, CA Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech Purpose: The Staff Research & Development Engineer will be supporting project teams in the development of electrophysiology catheters and systems at Biosense Webster and provides advice and mentorship to less experienced personnel. Project support includes overall design, requirement development, design for manufacturing, test method development, and product verification and validation testing. You will be responsible for: Lead the design of new or existing components and/or devices while ensuring that all design requirements are met. Develop customer requirements and product specifications with validated test methods Support or lead quality improvement initiatives such as process and product characterizations that lead to continuous / cost improvements. Study specifications, engineering blueprints, tool orders, and shop data and confer with engineering and shop personnel to resolve design problems related to material characteristics, dimensional tolerances, service requirements, manufacturing procedures, and cost. Interface between external vendors and core team. Expected to present project work across management levels and to customers and author scientific publications and patents in support of key technologies. Expected to write reports, work instructions, test methods and procedures. Travel to customer sites, domestic and international, to gather VOC, perform testing and/or perform troubleshooting activities. Responsible for performing design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound processes and designs. Provide technical mentoring to less experienced engineers and technicians Responsible for the purchase or design of equipment that meets health, safety and environmental standards set by the company. Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with all Federal, State, local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance. Qualifications: A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical (preferred), Material, Chemistry or Biomedical Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of experience, or, a Master’s degree in Electrical (preferred), Chemistry or Biomedical Engineering with minimum of 3 years of experience is required. Working experience with Electrochemistry, electroplating, and electrochemical testing techniques Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) and EIS is required. Expertise with signal processing is preferred Experience with CAD software such as SolidWorks is preferred. Medical Device experience highly preferred. Knowledge and experience in product development processes is preferred. Experience with statistical analysis and design of experiments (DOE) preferred. In-depth knowledge of material and metals used in design of medical devices preferred. Ability to be a technical leader on multi-functional teams Must possess strong communication skills, written and verbal Ability to solve complex problems Ability to travel up to 10% domestic and international is required 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 and 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, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.mmmmmmmmmmm The anticipated base pay range for this position is : $105,000- $165,000 Additional Description for Pay Transparency: The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

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