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Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Product Development Testing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a Staff Vision Engineer located in Jacksonville, Florida.

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 vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose:

The Staff Vision Engineer designs, simulates, and optimizes optical systems and components used in advanced vision products, including contact lenses, ophthalmic devices, and wearable technologies, with the goal of delivering innovative solutions that improve patient vision from concept through commercialization; the role collaborates with multi-functional teams and partners with vision scientists, clinicians, and internal and external centers of excellence to translate scientific insights into practical product solutions in Presbyopia, Myopia Progression, Light Management, and Astigmatism, driving ground-breaking optical innovations and ensuring robust validation across development stages.

You will:

• Develop a fundamental understanding of the human visual system to enable eye-inspired optical designs
• Develop, research, create, and validate eye and vision models
• Research and deploy clinical metrology instrumentation to enable clinical research
• Provide optics and vision science consulting across the organization as needed
• Optical design optimization
• Adhere to all environmental and safety policies and procedures and support department environmental objectives
• Engage in Credo-based decision making

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree in Optics, Physics, Vision Science, or other degrees, such as psychophysics, with applied vision science
• A minimum of 2 years of work experience (5 years with Master’s degree) in a multi-disciplined engineering environment with experience in physics, optics or vision science is required
• Experience with ophthalmic product design and visual performance measurement technology is required
• Demonstrated solid understanding of optical design software, Matlab (or other programming language), statistics, data analytics & mathematical modeling
• Demonstrated ability to integrate knowledge across diverse technologies (e.g. optical design, mechanical design, ocular physiology, image interpretation, psychophysics) to generate technical insights and translate into design solutions
• Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills required

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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.

Required Skills:

Analytical Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry (MS), Mass Spectrometry Analysis

Preferred Skills:

Communication, Medical Device Industry, Product Development, Product Strategies, Report Writing, Research and Development, Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC)

Push the boundaries of science to transform health—and your career.

Join us and advance life-changing treatments for people who need them most. At Johnson & Johnson, our focus is on improving global health equity and developing MedTech and pharmaceutical innovations that impact the future of health. Using AI and robotics to transform surgery or helping data scientists and clinicians formulate new ways to diagnose and treat disease, this work may sound like sci-fi, but it’s all science, all real, and could be your career. Whatever your background, skills, or career goals, there’s a place for you to help solve some of the world’s most pressing health challenges with us.

Accelerate your career while changing the world.

Each of our broadly-based family of companies offers an inclusive and empowering culture and employee benefits (like paid time off to volunteer, transgender-inclusive and same-sex partner health insurance coverage, and more) designed to help you live your best life, however you define it. And our best-in-class learning and development approaches, mentorship, and access to innovators across the world will help you grow your skills and reach your career goals. Because when you're at your best, nothing stands between you and your next breakthrough.