Sr Principal Clinical Engineer
Biopharma Asia
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Job summary
Johnson & Johnson’s Orthopaedics division seeks a Sr Principal Clinical Engineer to shape end-to-end surgical workflows across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. You will translate clinical needs into integrated requirements guiding implant, instrument, and digital solution development.
Based in multiple locations with remote availability, the role requires 8+ years in medical device or clinical workflow design, strong collaboration, and deep familiarity with design controls
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in medical device/orthopaedics product development or clinical workflow design.
- Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Miro, FigJam, Polarion; experience with 3D visualization and CAD tools is a plus.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder alignment skills; able to influence in a matrixed environment.
- Lead ambiguous, early-stage problem framing and convert insights into 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.
- Translate surgeon, care team, patient, and health system needs into procedural requirements and design inputs.
- Map current and future-state workflows to identify unmet needs and adoption barriers.
- Collaborate with R&D, clinical, regulatory, quality, marketing, and external stakeholders to align workflow priorities.
- Evaluate concepts for usability and clinical relevance to prioritize problems and guide tradeoffs.
- Translate procedural needs into requirements and development guidance.
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Job description
R&D Product Development
Industrial Design & Human Factors
Scientific/Technology
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America
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, Palm beach Gardens, FL Leeds, United Kingdom and remote opportunity available as well.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Analytical Reasoning, Concept Testing, Consulting, Customer Intelligence, Design Mindset, Human Factor Engineering, Industry Analysis, Performance Measurement, Product Design, Product Improvements, Product Portfolio Management, Product Strategies, Research and Development, Research Documents, Risk Management, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility, User Research
Analytical Reasoning, Concept Testing, Consulting, Customer Intelligence, Design Mindset, Human Factor Engineering, Industry Analysis, Performance Measurement, Product Design, Product Improvements, Product Portfolio Management, Product Strategies, Research and Development, Research Documents, Risk Management, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility, User Research
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)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following 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
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