Senior Director, Orthopedic Navigation & AI Systems

Brighter Signals; West Chester (Chester County); On-site; USD 196,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics is searching for a Sr. Director of Navigation to lead software and systems engineering for intra-operative navigation, spanning embedded, edge and cloud components.

You will partner with robotics, clinical, and regulatory teams to deliver clinician-grade capabilities. Lead multi-year roadmaps, architect real-time stacks, and drive productionization of perception pipelines while ensuring IEC 62304 compliance and robust software lifecycle for regulated medical

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Systems or equivalent.
• 10+ years SW/systems experience with ~5+ years in navigation/perception or related systems; production navigation experience.
• Strong C/C++ and Python, real-time middleware, sensor fusion, SLAM/VO, 3D registration, and simulation tooling.
• 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 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

C/C++

Python

Real-time middleware

Sensor fusion

SLAM/VO

3D registration

Simulation tooling

Education

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

Tools

ROS/ROS2

DDS

Simulation tooling

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics is searching for a Sr. Director of Navigation to lead software and systems engineering for intra-operative navigation, spanning embedded, edge and cloud components.

You will partner with robotics, clinical, and regulatory teams to deliver clinician-grade capabilities. Lead multi-year roadmaps, architect real-time stacks, and drive productionization of perception pipelines while ensuring IEC 62304 compliance and robust software lifecycle for regulated medical