Senior Director of Navigation R&D & Digital Systems

Biopharma Careers; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

401(k) plan

Long‑term incentive

Generous time‑off benefits

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics is hiring a Sr. Director of Navigation located in Raynham or Boston, MA. Lead software and systems engineering for intra‑operative navigation, coordinating embedded, edge and cloud components to deliver clinician‑grade navigation capabilities.

You will own the multi‑year navigation roadmap, architect real‑time stacks, lead AI teams, and drive MLOps, verification, and regulatory alignment in a regulated medical device environment.

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), sensor fusion, SLAM/VO, 3D registration, and simulation tooling.
• Practical experience with software design controls for regulated products (IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971).
• Experience with SBOM, cybersecurity for medical devices, and cloud/edge orchestration.

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.
• Define non‑functional requirements (accuracy budgets, latency, availability) 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.

Skills

C/C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

sensor fusion

SLAM/VO

3D registration

simulation tooling

real‑time middleware

Education

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

Tools

ROS/ROS2

DDS

GPU acceleration

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics is hiring a Sr. Director of Navigation located in Raynham or Boston, MA. Lead software and systems engineering for intra‑operative navigation, coordinating embedded, edge and cloud components to deliver clinician‑grade navigation capabilities.

You will own the multi‑year navigation roadmap, architect real‑time stacks, lead AI teams, and drive MLOps, verification, and regulatory alignment in a regulated medical device environment.