Sr Principal Clinical Engineer

6149-DePuy Synthes Products Inc. Legal Entity; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 137,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time-off benefits

Comprehensive vacation

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics unit is seeking a Sr Principal Clinical Engineer to shape surgical workflow strategies across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. You will translate clinical and operational needs into integrated requirements guiding implant, instrument, and digital technologies.

Based in the U.S. with roles in Massachusetts and IN, you will lead cross-functional teams, evaluate usability, and help deliver clinically meaningful, economically

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years in medical device, orthopaedics, or related health care tech.
• Experience with medical device development and design controls.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Familiarity with CAD/3D visualization tools and rapid prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end procedural workflows for preoperative planning, intraoperative execution, and postoperative follow-up including implants and instruments.
• Translate surgeon, care team, patient, health system, commercial, clinical, operational, economic, usability needs into procedural requirements.
• Map current- and future-state workflows to identify unmet needs, adoption barriers, usability challenges, and opportunities for differentiation.
• Partner with R&D, clinical, medical education, regulatory, quality, marketing, and external clinical stakeholders to align workflow priorities.
• Evaluate concepts for usability, workflow fit, clinical relevance, adoption risk, and end-user value.
• Translate procedural needs into requirements, recommendations, and development guidance.

Skills

Communication

Facilitation

Stakeholder alignment

Problem framing

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Figma

Miro

FigJam

Polarion

3D visualization

CAD

KeyShot

Rhino

SolidWorks

NX

Job description

Job Description

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

We are searching for Sr Principal Clinical Engineer to be based out of Warsaw, IN and Raynham MA and Leeds, United Kingdom.

Purpose

The Clinical Engineer will act as a Procedural Workflow Architect to define and shape end-to-end surgical procedure workflows across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. This role translates clinical, operational, economic, usability, and adoption needs into integrated procedural requirements that guide implant, instrument, enabling technology, digital, biologic, and service development. By connecting real-world surgical practice with cross-functional product development, the role helps ensure future solutions are intuitive, adoptable, clinically meaningful, economically relevant, and differentiated in the marketplace.

Job 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.

Qualifications Required

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.

Competencies

• Visual storytelling and storyboard development
• Industrial design and human-centered design methodology
• Workflow mapping, journey mapping, and process visualization
• Concept sketching, ideation, and rapid visual prototyping
• Design communication for complex hardware, software, and procedural systems
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder facilitation
• Ability to connect and translate user needs, clinical context, and design direction
• Presentation development and executive-ready communication

Other Requirements

Will require travel to R&D sites, labs, surgeon engagement sessions, customer research activities, or project workshops. Must comply with all applicable company policies, procedures, quality expectations, confidentiality requirements, and regulatory standards. Role may be aligned to front-end innovation, systems engineering, human factors, or product development depending on organizational structure and project needs.

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.

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 an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Base Pay Range

The anticipated base pay range for this position is : $137,000.00 - $235,750.00

Pay Transparency Description

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)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Time Off 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

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions are personal.Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.