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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 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 humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.\nAs 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.\nJob Function:\nR&D Product DevelopmentJob Sub Function:\nRoboticsJob Category:\nScientific/TechnologyAll Job Posting Locations:\nSpring House, Pennsylvania, United States of AmericaJob Description:\nAbout Innovative Medicine\nOur expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.\nJoin us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.\nLearn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine\nWe are searching for the best talent for an Experienced Automation and Robotics Engineer to be located in Spring House, PA.\nPurpose: The Experienced Automation and Robotics Engineer provides hands-on engineering depth for integrated workcells. The role connects instruments, robots, sensors, transfer mechanisms, guarding, utilities, and basic control interfaces so scientific workflows can run reliably in automated form.\nThe Engineer will design, configure, test, troubleshoot, and improve the physical automation and robotics components of integrated discovery workcells. This role complements laboratory automation scientists by owning physical feasibility, robot motion, equipment integrations, controls handshakes, safety behavior, serviceability, layout constraints, and technical vendor follow-up for assigned systems.\nAt this level the engineer begins to own defined physical integration packages, rather than simply supporting assigned tasks. The role contributes to interface definitions, FAT/SAT execution, safety and serviceability reviews, and remediation of physical, mechanical, and controls-related failure modes.\nYou will be responsible for:\nPhysical System Design and Integration\nContributing to the design and deployment of robotic workcells, transfer stations, labware nests, custom fixtures, grippers, guards, sensors, actuators, label/barcode presentation points, and automated peripherals.\n\nSupporting robot reach studies, equipment layouts, service envelope reviews, deck access assessments, operator intervention points, and physical interface testing between instruments and workcells.\n\nSupporting integration between orchestration software, device drivers, robot controllers, PLCs or safety controllers, sensors, instrument PCs, and IT/OT infrastructure.\n\nAuthoring or contributing to URS, FDS, SDS review comments, interface control notes, FMEA inputs, FAT/SAT protocols, safety test scripts, commissioning records, and punch-list documentation.\n\nTroubleshooting, Reliability, and Recovery\nTroubleshooting mechanical, electrical, robotic, control, sensor, barcode, utility, and device communication issues in collaboration with laboratory automation scientists, vendors, IT/OT, and operations.\n\nSupporting root cause analysis for equipment faults, transfer failures, safety trips, barcode or sensor issues, lost labware position, service access problems, and physical workflow interruptions.\n\nRecommending and implementing improvements that increase reliability, maintainability, serviceability, physical workflow robustness, and recovery from machine-side exceptions.\n\nSupporting development of practical recovery instructions for physical jams, robot faults, device alarms, and safe re-start after operator or maintenance intervention.\n\nSimulation, Safety, and Vendor Support\nContributing to layout, throughput, traffic, robot path, and service access simulation to identify bottlenecks, facility constraints, and unsafe or impractical physical designs before installation.\n\nSupporting vendor FAT/SAT activities for physical, control, safety, and recovery behavior, not only nominal workflow execution.\n\nWorking with Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors to clarify assumptions, interfaces, installation readiness, utility needs, access constraints, and remediation actions.\n\nCollaborating with EHS, facilities, laboratory operations, and lab automation scientists to ensure safety, biosafety, waste handling, serviceability, and contamination-control expectations are reflected in system design.\n\nAdditional Responsibilities\nSupport technology evaluations, proof-of-concept studies, design reviews, and vendor demonstrations for future automation and robotics capabilities.\n\nContribute to engineering standards, interface templates, safety review practices, maintenance guidelines, and technical playbooks.\n\nSupport audit, inspection, or quality documentation requests where automated systems intersect with regulated or quality driven workflows.\n\nParticipate in lessons learned and continuous improvement activities to improve future automation delivery.\n\nQualifications/Requirements\nEducation:\nA minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, Robotics, Mechatronic, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is required. An advanced degree is preferred.\n\nExperience and Skills:\nRequired:\nBachelor’s degree with 3+ years, Master’s degree with 2+ years, or a PhD with 1+ years of relevant automation, robotics, controls, or equipment integration experience.\n\nDemonstrated understanding of robotics, automation, electromechanical systems, controls hardware, sensors, actuators, and instrumentation appropriate to the level of the role.\n\nAbility to work with laboratory automation scientists to translate scientific workflow constraints into safe, maintainable, and physically executable machinery, interfaces, and workcell layouts.\n\nWorking knowledge of technical documentation, drawings, equipment lists, interface notes, FAT/SAT/UAT records, FMEA inputs, punch lists, and change summaries.\n\nStrong troubleshooting discipline across mechanical, electrical, robotic, control, safety, communication, and instrument interface issues.\n\nAwareness of EHS, biosafety, contamination control, service access, guard/interlock concepts, and operational readiness expectations in a research laboratory or regulated environment.\n\nAbility to contribute independently to physical interface design, integration testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and vendor follow-up.\n\nPreferred:\nExperience with PLCs, robot controllers, AMRs, cobots, machine vision, industrial networks, OPC UA, Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, safety PLCs, or device drivers.\n\nExperience with simulation, CAD, digital twin, throughput modeling, robot path modeling, or layout planning tools.\n\nExperience supporting outsourced technical projects and vendor deliverables such as URS, FDS, SDS, FAT, SAT, FMEA, risk assessments, and punch-list closure.\n\nOther:\nTravel may be required for vendor assessments, FAT/SAT activities, site visits, system builds, workshops, training, technology scouting, or cross-site deployment support.\n\nWhy Join Us\nThis role supports the transition from isolated automation projects to integrated, reliable, AI-native, and ultimately self-driving discovery laboratory systems. The work helps connect scientific intent with robust physical execution, reproducible data, model feedback, and scalable operational capability.\nJohnson & 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.\nJohnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. 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