Senior System Engineer, R&D

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and Med Tech, 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.

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R&D Product Development

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

Scientific/Technology

Milpitas, California, United States of America

We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a Senior System Engineer, R&D located in Milpitas, California.

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 vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting‑edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

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The Senior System Engineer, R&D will support the system integration group in the development of ophthalmic surgical equipment. The candidate shall apply engineering, scientific, and clinical knowledge to participate in design control, new product development, and improvements to existing products. The candidate will collaborate with team to develop system requirements and subsystem specifications, help critical vendors evaluation, have excellent hands‑in skills to integrate, characterize and optimize the designs at system and sub‑system levels and problem‑solving skills to deal with complex and multidisciplinary system issues.

• Hands‑on design, integration, and problem‑solving for complex medical laser systems and mitigations.
• Collaborate with multi‑functional teammates and suppliers or contractors to develop robust system and subsystems requirements with validated test methods.
• Manage system and subsystem requirements with an emphasis on electrical, optics, mechanical, electronic, software, and controls.
• Coordinate with verification teams to ensure requirements are verifiable.
• Guide system and subsystem teams through tradeoff decisions, balancing customer and business benefit with technical complexity, schedule risk, and other factors and become the Interface among internal R&D teams, cross functional teams, and external vendors.

• BS degree in system, electrical, software, mechanical, optical, physics, bio‑medical engineering or any related engineering field required.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working on medical equipment or other complex optomechanical and electromechanical systems with a Bachelor’s degree OR 3+ years’ experience with MS OR 2+ years’ experience with PhD.
• Strong proficiencies with at least one engineering field, i.e., system, electrical, computer science, mechanical, optical, physics, etc.
• Hands‑on experience on system integration and test method development is required.
• Ability to solve complex problems required.
• Highly organized and methodological, scientific approach.
• Collaborative teammate with strong communication skills, written and verbal required.
• Ability to travel up to 20%, international and domestic is required.

• Knowledge of system engineering methodologies like…