Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer - Joints Robotics

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 120h/yr

Sick time 40h/yr

Holiday pay 13 days/yr

Parental Leave 480h

Bereavement Leave 240h

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Co. is seeking a Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer for Orthopaedics to lead technical and clinical input across the product lifecycle in a hybrid role based in Boston, MA or Warsaw, IN.

You will bridge medical device design, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and real-world clinical applications while collaborating across engineering, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams to deliver safe, effective device development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (mechanical/biomedical/electrical or related) or equivalent.
• 12+ years’ experience in medical device R&D, clinical engineering, or related roles supporting product development.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and practical problem solving ability.
• Direct experience in orthopedics, joint replacement, or surgical robotics.
• Knowledge of regulatory pathways (FDA, EU MDR).
• Experience with field actions, complaint investigations, HHAs, and recall processes.
• OR exposure and strong clinician relationships.
• Technical leadership with clinical focus
• pragmatic
• data driven decision maker.
• Collaborative communicator and cross functional influencer.
• Patient outcomes and risk management oriented.

Responsibilities

• Translate VoC insights into clinical and engineering scope proposals.
• Support training and R&D rollouts.
• Assist surgeon and clinical staff during demos.
• Support high-trial clinical investigations when needed.
• Advise on usability.
• Collaborate with Regulatory to draft technical/clinical submissions.
• Review field actions, complaints, HHAs, recalls; provide risk assessments.
• Interface with physicians, QA, regulatory, and labs to answer questions.
• Contribute to technical sections for manuscripts and reports.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Technical leadership

Clinical communication

VoC analysis

Risk assessment

Usability input

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Job Function

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function

R&D Digital

Job Category

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America

Job Description

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Principal Clinical R&D Engineer - Joints Robotics to join our Orthopaedics team. This is a hybrid position that can be based in Boston, MA or Warsaw, IN.

Purpose

This role will act as a senior technical and clinical leader who bridges medical device design, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and real‑world clinical applications for joint robotics. You will provide hands‑on engineering and clinical input across the product lifecycle to ensure safe, effective, and compliant device development.

Key Responsibilities

• Help Gather and Translate Voice of Customer (VoC) insights into clinical and engineering scope proposals.
• Support “train the trainer” and R&D roll outs.
• Support surgeon and clinical staff interactions and demos.
• Support high-tired clinical investigation at times of need.
• Advise on usability.
• Partner with Regulatory to draft and support technical and clinical documentation for regulatory submissions and post market reporting.
• Review field actions, product complaints, health hazard assessments (HHAs), and recall decisions; provide technical/clinical risk assessments and remediation recommendations. - Interface directly with physicians, clinical staff, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and external testing laboratories to resolve technical and clinical questions.
• Support preparation of technical sections for scientific manuscripts, clinical summaries, and internal technical reports at need.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (mechanical, biomedical, electrical, or related) or equivalent technical degree.
• 12+ years’ experience in medical device R&D, clinical engineering, or related roles supporting product development.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and practical problem solving ability. Preferred / desired qualifications
• Direct experience in orthopedics, joint replacement, or surgical robotics.
• Knowledge of regulatory pathways (FDA, EU MDR)
• Experience with field actions, complaint investigations, HHAs, and recall processes.
• OR exposure and strong clinician relationships.
• Technical leadership with clinical focus
• pragmatic
• data driven decision maker.
• Collaborative communicator and cross functional influencer.
• Patient outcomes and risk management oriented.

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

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Preferred Skills

• Analytical Reasoning
• Consulting
• Data Structures
• Digital Fluency
• Digital Strategy
• Emerging Technologies
• Engineering
• Global Market
• Negotiation
• Product Development
• Product Improvements
• Project Schedule
• Regulatory Compliance
• Research and Development
• SAP Product Lifecycle Management
• Tactical Planning
• Technical Credibility
• Technologically Savvy

The anticipated base pay range for this position is

$140,000.00 - $241,500.00

Additional Description For Pay Transparency

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits