Navigation Systems V&V Engineering Manager

Johnson Johnson; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Navigation Systems Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager in a hybrid role based out of Raynham or Boston, MA. You will lead a team of engineers ensuring full V&V coverage and regulatory compliance for advanced navigation medical devices.

The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration with systems, hardware, software, clinical, and quality teams, and oversight of test facilities to guarantee robust verification and validation across product

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Verification & Validation and Integration Engineers to ensure navigation systems meet all defined subsystem- and system-level requirements.
• Collaborate closely with systems engineering, hardware, and software teams to ensure requirements are clearly defined, testable, and fully traceable from user needs and system/subsystem requirements through verification and validation.
• Define minimum testable requirements following design or requirement changes, applying a risk-based approach that considers essential performance and basic safety.
• Develop and execute comprehensive V&V strategies and master system test plans for complex medical devices, including system verification protocols and regression strategies to ensure robust requirements coverage.
• Prepare and deliver system-level V&V documentation, including summary reports and verification results.
• Review and approve sub-system verification deliverables to ensure alignment with overall system requirements.
• Design, validate, and implement test methods, including manual and automated test setups, to ensure they are suitable for verifying product requirements, including repeatability, reproducibility.
• Coordinate and manage engagement with external test facilities (e.g., NRTLs, EMC, and restricted-materials laboratories) to ensure full regulatory compliance and adherence to internal company policies.
• Oversee the maintenance of navigation systems test lab facilities, ensuring all equipment and infrastructure are properly calibrated, serviced, and compliant with company safety, quality, and procedural standards; proactively identify and resolve issues to support uninterrupted testing and development workflows.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, IEC 60601, ISO 14971).
• Support design transfer and product launch activities including complaints investigations.
• Investigate and document non-conformances, deviations, and test failures, drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Interface with regulatory, quality, and manufacturing teams to support audits and inspections.
• Responsible for communicating business-related issues or opportunities to next management level

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.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function

Robotics

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description

About Orthopaedics

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 Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness.

We are hiring for Navigation Systems Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager in a hybrid role to be based out of Raynham or Boston, MA.

Learn more at jnj.com

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose

The Navigation Systems Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring that navigation products meet all defined system- and subsystem-level requirements and are safe, effective, and compliant for their intended clinical use. This role plays a critical part in supporting regulatory submissions and product releases by planning, executing, and documenting comprehensive V&V activities in accordance with FDA regulations, ISO 13485, IEC standards, and other applicable regulatory and quality system requirements. The Navigation Systems V&V Engineering Manager leads a team of Verification & Validation and Integration Engineers, providing technical and people leadership to ensure that navigation systems meet all subsystem- and system-level requirements throughout development and release.

Working cross-functionally with systems, software, hardware, clinical, navigation, manufacturing, and quality teams, the Navigation Systems V&V Engineering Manager ensures that design outputs are thoroughly verified and validated against user needs, intended use, system and subsystem requirements, and risk controls. This role requires strong technical depth, excellent collaboration and leadership skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a regulated, multidisciplinary environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Verification & Validation and Integration Engineers to ensure navigation systems meet all defined subsystem- and system-level requirements.
• Collaborate closely with systems engineering, hardware, and software teams to ensure requirements are clearly defined, testable, and fully traceable from user needs and system/subsystem requirements through verification and validation.
• Define minimum testable requirements following design or requirement changes, applying a risk-based approach that considers essential performance and basic safety.
• Develop and execute comprehensive V&V strategies and master system test plans for complex medical devices, including system verification protocols and regression strategies to ensure robust requirements coverage. This includes oversight of investigational, integration, reliability, and formal verification and validation testing.
• Prepare and deliver system-level V&V documentation, including summary reports and verification results.
• Review and approve sub-system verification deliverables to ensure alignment with overall system requirements.
• Design, validate, and implement test methods, including manual and automated test setups, to ensure they are suitable for verifying product requirements, including repeatability, reproducibility.
• Coordinate and manage engagement with external test facilities (e.g., NRTLs, EMC, and restricted-materials laboratories) to ensure full regulatory compliance and adherence to internal company policies.
• Oversee the maintenance of navigation systems test lab facilities, ensuring all equipment and infrastructure are properly calibrated, serviced, and compliant with company safety, quality, and procedural standards; proactively identify and resolve issues to support uninterrupted testing and development workflows.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, IEC 60601, ISO 14971).
• Support design transfer and product launch activities including complaints investigations.
• Investigate and document non-conformances, deviations, and test failures, drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Interface with regulatory, quality, and manufacturing teams to support audits and inspections.
• Responsible for communicating business-related issues or opportunities to next management level