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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Irvine, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Med Tech, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Staff R&D Engineer to be located in Irvine, CA.

A qualified candidate has been pre-identified, but additional applicants will be considered.

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/ (https://www.jnj.com/

The Staff Research & Development Engineer will be supporting project teams in the development of electrophysiology catheters and systems at JNJ MedTech 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.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• 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

Required & Preferred Skills

• 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

Other:

• The anticipated travel for this position is 10%
• The attendance policy requirement for this position is Fully-Onsite
• The anticipated average pay for this position is $91,000.00 to $129,472.00

At Johnson & Johnson, we’re on a mission to change the trajectory of health for humanity. That starts by creating the world’s healthiest workforce. Through innovative programs and policies, we empower the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our employees and the ones they love.

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.

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