Sr Principal Clinical Engineer

At Johnson & Johnsonwe believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented treated and curedwhere treatments are smarter and less invasive andsolutions are 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 more at

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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

Industrial Design & Human Factors

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Palm Beach Gardens Florida United States of America Raynham Massachusetts United States of America Warsaw Indiana United States of America

Job Description:

About Orthopaedics

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology were 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 thats 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 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.

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

• Bachelors 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 internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

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 :

$137000.00 - $235750.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

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

This position is eligible to participate in the Companys 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

Required Experience:

Staff IC