Senior Verification Engineer - Hardware - Johnson and Johnson
Santa Clara, CA 95050
About the Job
Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon is recruiting for a Senior Verification Engineer, R&D Systems Engineering, to be located at Santa Clara, CA.
Ethicon, Inc. is a global leader in surgery with products and solutions found in almost every operating room around the world. Ethicon has made significant contributions to surgery for more than 100 years from creating the first sutures, to revolutionizing surgery with minimally invasive procedures. Our continuing dedication to Shape the Future of Surgery is built on our commitment to help address the world's most pressing health care issues and improve and save more lives. Through Ethicon's surgical technologies and solutions including robotics, digital solutions, sutures, staplers, energy devices, trocars and hemostats and our commitment to treat serious medical conditions like obesity and cancer worldwide, we deliver innovation to make a life-changing impact. For more information, visit www.ethicon.com.
As a Senior Verification Engineer on the R&D Systems Team, you will serve as an expert for verification of subsystems across multiple platforms in the new product pipeline. The position is a vital role for new product development programs and is an excellent opportunity if you are passionate about building groundbreaking surgical capabilities and working in a multi-functional environment!
This role will interact primarily with Product Development, Systems Engineering and Quality, with additional key interactions from other groups including Project Management and Regulatory Affairs. The individual will serve as a 'product owner' leading verification strategies and provide work products to support NPD from both a leadership and execution perspective. Candidates must be self-motivated, independent and have an eagerness to learn and work as a team, and a desire to thrive in a dynamic environment.
What You'll Do:
- Review and provide guidance into product/system requirements to ensure they are testable and meet the intent.
- As a product owner of verification - work with cross functional partners to plan technical workflows, identify program interdependencies and blockers, define resources and capacity required, ensure test fixtures and methods readiness.
- Hands on development, characterization of simple and sophisticated test equipment. Ability to diagnose and improve sources of variation/operation and fix bugs. Deployment of test fixtures including instrument qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ).
- Generate test protocols against product requirements using procedures and author reports to support run for record verification testing.
- Draft, refine and validate test methods including measurement system analysis, writing and leading protocols, performing statistical analysis and writing technical reports.
- Crafts clearly detailed bug reports for anomalies found during test procedures/workflows.
- Collaborate with other engineers, technicians, assemblers, or other support personnel to lead execution of verification results against strategies.
- Bachelors of Engineering degree (mechanical, electrical, or biomedical). Or in place of a degree, 4 years of equivalent experience.
- Developing and qualifying test equipment and leading test method development through validation.
- Experience in test equipment deployment for characterization through official design verification.
- Solid understanding of statistics and applicable methodologies for test engineering.
- Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to achieve goals in a very fast paced, highly multifaceted environment. Builds plans that maintain sync with verification strategies.
- Working experience in FDA or other highly regulated environment.
- Working experience with complex medical device systems.
- Experience in imaging, visualization or optical test systems.
- Experience working in an Agile/software development context/scrum team.
- Ability to travel up to 25% domestic and international, including overnight stays.
- Ability to work in Santa Clara, CA
Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
