Hybrid Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer – Joints Robotics

Brighter Signals; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation – 120 hours per year

Sick leave – 40 hours per year

Floating holidays – 13 days per year

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team seeks a Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer - Joints Robotics to join a hybrid role based in Boston, MA or Warsaw, IN. You bridge medical device design, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and real-world clinical applications across the product lifecycle.

You will provide hands-on engineering and clinical input, translate VoC into scope proposals, support surgeon interactions, and draft technical and regulatory documents for submissions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years’ experience in medical device R&D or related roles.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Direct experience in orthopedics, joint replacement, or surgical robotics.
• Knowledge of regulatory pathways (FDA, EU MDR).
• Experience with field actions, complaint investigations, HHAs, and recall processes.
• Excellent communication and problem solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Translate VoC insights into clinical and engineering scope proposals.
• Support training and R&D rollouts.
• Assist surgeon and clinical staff interactions and demos.
• Support high-tied clinical investigations when needed.
• Advise on usability.
• Draft regulatory documentation with Regulatory.
• Review field actions, complaints, HHAs, and recall decisions; provide risk assessments.
• Prepare technical sections for manuscripts and internal reports.

Skills

R&D engineering

Clinical engineering

Regulatory knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Orthopedics expertise

Written/verbal communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Regulatory documentation

Job description

Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team seeks a Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer - Joints Robotics to join a hybrid role based in Boston, MA or Warsaw, IN. You bridge medical device design, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and real-world clinical applications across the product lifecycle.

You will provide hands-on engineering and clinical input, translate VoC into scope proposals, support surgeon interactions, and draft technical and regulatory documents for submissions