Senior Director, Digital Navigation for Orthopedics

Johnson & Johnson MedTech; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 120 hours per year

Sick time 40 hours per year

Holiday pay 13 days per year

Parental Leave 480 hours

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics is advancing next-generation navigation-enabled solutions for intra-operative use. This role leads software and systems engineering across embedded, edge and cloud components, partnering with robotics, clinical, and regulatory teams to deliver clinician-grade navigation.

You will direct multi-year roadmaps, architect real-time stacks, and shepherd AI/perception pipelines through regulated development with IEC 62304 compliance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years SW/systems experience with ~5+ years in navigation/perception or related systems.
• Experience shipping production navigation or perception software.
• Strong C/C++ and Python, real-time middleware (ROS/ROS2, DDS or equivalent).
• Practical experience with software design controls for regulated products (IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971).

Responsibilities

• Own multi-year navigation SW & systems roadmap and drive delivery to product milestones.
• Architect real-time navigation stacks and partition deterministic control loops from non-real-time services.
• Lead SW, algorithm and AI teams to productionize perception pipelines.
• Build and operate simulation/digital-twin and synthetic data pipelines for validation and regression testing.
• Establish IEC 62304-aligned software lifecycle, CI/CD for embedded + cloud, automated test harnesses, and traceability.
• Define non-functional requirements (accuracy budgets, latency, availability, robustness) and verification strategies.
• Integrate MLOps for model training, validation, deployment controls, and in-field monitoring.
• Partner with QA/RA to deliver software evidence, risk controls and regulatory inputs; qualify navigation software suppliers/SDKs.
• Partner with technology partners for co-development

Skills

Navigation experience

C/C++

Python

Real-time systems

Regulatory knowledge

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Systems or equivalent

Tools

ROS/ROS2

DDS

Simulation tooling

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics is advancing next-generation navigation-enabled solutions for intra-operative use. This role leads software and systems engineering across embedded, edge and cloud components, partnering with robotics, clinical, and regulatory teams to deliver clinician-grade navigation.

You will direct multi-year roadmaps, architect real-time stacks, and shepherd AI/perception pipelines through regulated development with IEC 62304 compliance.