Staff R&D Engineer

We are searching the best talent for an R&D Staff Engineer to join our MedTech Team located in Irvine, CA. 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 Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness.

Purpose: The Staff Research & Development Engineer will be supporting project teams in the development of electrophysiology catheters and systems at Biosense Webster and provides advice and mentorship to less experienced personnel. Project support includes overall design, requirement development, design for manufacturing, test method development, and product verification and validation testing.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading the design of new or existing components and/or devices while ensuring that all design requirements are met.
• Developing customer requirements and product specifications with validated test methods
• Supporting or leading quality improvement initiatives such as process and product characterizations that lead to continuous / cost improvements.
• Studying specifications, engineering blueprints, tool orders, and shop data and conferring with engineering and shop personnel to resolve design problems related to material characteristics, dimensional tolerances, service requirements, manufacturing procedures, and cost.
• Interface between external vendors and core team.
• Expected to present project work across management levels and to customers and author scientific publications and patents in support of key technologies. Expected to write reports, work instructions, test methods, and procedures.
• Traveling to customer sites, domestic and international, to gather VOC, perform testing and/or perform troubleshooting activities.
• Responsible for performing design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound processes and designs.
• Providing technical mentoring to less experienced engineers and technicians.
• Responsible for the purchase or design of equipment that meets health, safety, and environmental standards set by the company.
• Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with all Federal, State, local and company regulations, policies, and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical (preferred), Material, Chemistry or Biomedical Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of experience, or, a Master's degree in Electrical (preferred), Chemistry or Biomedical Engineering with minimum of 3 years of experience is required.
• Working experience with Electrochemistry, electroplating, and electrochemical testing techniques Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) and EIS is required.
• Expertise with signal processing is preferred.
• Experience with CAD software such as SolidWorks is preferred.
• Medical Device experience highly preferred.
• Knowledge and experience in product development processes is preferred.
• Experience with statistical analysis and design of experiments (DOE) preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of material and metals used in design of medical devices preferred.
• Ability to be a technical leader on multi-functional teams.
• Must possess strong communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Ability to travel up to 10% domestic and international is required.

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 and 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, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $105,000- $165,000. Additional Description for Pay Transparency: The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs.