Manufacturing Test Engineer

Job Function

Supply Chain Engineering

Automation Engineering

Scientific/Technology

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

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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As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Johnson & Johnson Med Tech, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is currently recruiting for a Manufacturing Test Engineer. This position will be based in Santa Clara, California.

Robotics & Digital Solutions is part of Ethicon, Inc., 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

• Work closely with the Manufacturing and Design teams to design, develop, document, and qualify test software used during the manufacturing of electro‑mechanical components and subassemblies of a medical robotics system.
• Develop test algorithms, test scripts, data acquisition and measurement systems with focus on repeatability and reproducibility.
• Write well designed, testable code to automate test processes utilizing in‑house developed software frameworks.
• Develop infrastructure such as common libraries and APIs to support multiple teams test software across manufacturing.
• Provide debugging and troubleshooting support on in‑house developed software scripts and processes.
• Perform root cause and failure analysis on electromechanical devices.
• Work with data platform solutions to automate analysis and processing of supply chain and manufacturing data.
• Release test software documentation and deploy software to a manufacturing environment.
• Develop qualification and validation protocols for complex software driven processes.
• Author and release validation documentation for software scripts and tools.
• Provide detailed status and tracking of activities.

• 5+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or related engineering field is required.
• Experience working on instrumentation automation and using scripting languages such as Python, Shell, SQL, Batch, Bash, or Linux commands is required.
• Proficiency in software engineering and development tools is required.
• Ability to produce high quality documentation that is clearly understandable by internal and external personnel is required.
• Experience with test software, scripting and test software design is required.
• Experience with automated testing of mechatronics or robotics systems is highly preferred.
• Experience in Product Lifecycle Management systems such as Oracle Agile is highly preferred.
• Experience in Medical Device industry is preferred.
• Understanding of electrical systems and power electronics is preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 10% to…