Senior Principal Clinical Engineer - Orthopedics Workflow

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Florida; On-site; USD 137,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Long-term incentive program

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Sr Principal Clinical Engineer to shape end-to-end surgical procedure workflows across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. You will translate clinical and operational needs into integrated requirements for implants, instruments, and digital services.

The role requires 8+ years in medical device, orthopaedics, or related health care technology, with strong design-tool proficiency and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, biomedical engineering, life sciences, clinical discipline, health care administration, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in medical device, orthopaedics, surgical innovation, product development, clinical workflow design, human factors, systems engineering, or related health care technology environment.
• Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Miro, FigJam, Polarion native; experience with 3D visualization, CAD, KeyShot, Rhino, SolidWorks, NX or rapid prototyping methods is a plus.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder alignment skills; able to influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Lead ambiguous, early-stage problem framing and convert insights into structured development priorities.
• Familiarity with medical device development, design controls, risk management, and regulated product development.

Responsibilities

• Define and design end-to-end integrated procedural workflows for prioritized surgical procedures across - preoperative planning, intraoperative execution, and postoperative follow-up including implants, instruments, technologies, digital applications, biologics, and services.
• Translate surgeon, care team, patient, health system, commercial, clinical, operational, economic, usability, and adoption needs into procedural requirements, user needs, use scenarios, design inputs, and development guidance.
• Map current- and future-state workflows to identify unmet needs, adoption barriers, usability challenges, economic pain points, and opportunities for meaningful differentiation.
• Partner with R&D, clinical, medical education, regulatory, quality, marketing, commercial, and external clinical stakeholders to align workflow priorities, solution intent, and integrated procedural requirements.
• Evaluate concepts for usability, workflow fit, clinical relevance, adoption risk, and end-user value to prioritize procedural problems and guide clinical, technical, operational, and business tradeoffs to improve efficiency, consistency, usability, and adoption.
• Translate procedural needs and complex inputs into requirements, recommendations, and development guidance.

Skills

Strong communication

Stakeholder alignment

Leadership in ambiguous problems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Figma

Miro

FigJam

Polarion

CAD visualization

SolidWorks

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Sr Principal Clinical Engineer to shape end-to-end surgical procedure workflows across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. You will translate clinical and operational needs into integrated requirements for implants, instruments, and digital services.

The role requires 8+ years in medical device, orthopaedics, or related health care technology, with strong design-tool proficiency and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.