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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:\nR&D Software/Systems EngineeringJob Category:\nPeople LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:\nBoston, Massachusetts, United States of AmericaJob Description:\nWe are searching for the best talent for a Senior Robotics Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager to join our Orthopaedics team. This is a hybrid role located in Boston, MA.\nPurpose:\nThe Senior Robotics Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring that robotic products meet all defined system and subsystem level requirements and are safe, effective, and compliant for their intended clinical use. This role plays a critical part in supporting regulatory submissions and product releases by planning, executing, and documenting comprehensive V&V activities in accordance with FDA regulations, ISO 13485, IEC standards, and other applicable regulatory and quality system requirements.\nThe Senior Robotics V&V Engineering Manager leads a team of Verification & Validation and Integration Engineers, providing technical and people leadership to ensure that robotic systems meet all subsystem and system level requirements throughout development and release.\nWorking cross functionally with systems, software, hardware, clinical, robotics, manufacturing, and quality teams, the Senior Robotics V&V Engineering Manager ensures that design outputs are verified and validated against user needs, intended use, system and subsystem requirements, and risk controls. This role requires strong technical depth, excellent collaboration and leadership skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a regulated, multidisciplinary environment.\nKey Responsibilities:\nLead a team of Verification & Validation and Integration Engineers to ensure robotic systems meet all defined subsystem and system level requirements.\nCollaborate closely with systems engineering, hardware, and software teams to ensure requirements are clearly defined, testable, and fully traceable from user needs and system/subsystem requirements through verification and validation.\nDefine minimum testable requirements following design or requirement changes, applying a risk-based approach that considers essential performance and basic safety.\nDevelop and execute comprehensive V&V strategies and master system test plans for complex medical devices, including system verification protocols and regression strategies to ensure robust requirements coverage. This includes oversight of investigation, integration, reliability, and formal verification and validation testing.\nPrepare and deliver system-level V&V documentation, including summary reports and verification results.\nReviewing and approving sub-system verification deliverables to ensure alignment with overall system requirements.\nDesign, validate, and implement test methods, including manual and automated test setups, to ensure they are suitable for verifying product requirements, including repeatability, reproducibility.\nCoordinate and manage engagement with external test facilities (e.g., NRTLs, EMC, and restricted materials laboratories) to ensure full regulatory compliance and adherence to internal company policies.\nOversee the maintenance of robotics test lab facilities, ensuring all equipment and infrastructure are properly calibrated, serviced, and compliant with company safety, quality, and procedural standards; proactively identify and resolve issues to support uninterrupted testing and development workflows.\nEnsure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, IEC 60601, ISO 14971).\nSupport design transfer and product launch activities including complaints investigations.\nInvestigate and document non-conformances, deviations, and test failures, drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.\nInterface with regulatory, quality, and manufacturing teams to support audits and inspections.\nCommunicate business-related issues or opportunities to next management level\nFollow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices as applicable.\nEnsure that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition.\nEnsure personnel and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures.\nIdentify critical paths during product development, address bottlenecks and risks and facilitate problem solving across R&D teams.\nSupport project resource and schedule planning.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.\n7+ years of experience in V&V engineering within the medical device industry.\nStrong understanding of systems engineering principles and product development lifecycle (e.g., V-model, waterfall, Agile).\nExperience with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, Polarion).\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Class II or Class III medical devices is preferred.\nKnowledge of embedded systems, firmware/software testing, or electromechanical systems is a plus.\nFamiliarity with test automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB).\nExcellent technical writing and communication skills.\nCertification in CQE, CQA, or Six Sigma is a plus.\nProficient in sample size calculation and statistical methods for analyzing data.\nAbout Orthopaedics:\nFueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.\nAre you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s 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.\nYour unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech\nJohnson & 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. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.\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. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.\nRequired Skills:\nPreferred Skills:\nDeveloping Others, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Leadership, Operations Management, Process Improvements, Requirements Analysis, Research and Development, Researching, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Scripting Languages, Software Acquisitions, Software Development Management, Software Engineering Practices, Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Stakeholder Engagement, Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Tactical Planning, Team Management, Technologically Savvy, Vendor ManagementThe anticipated base pay range for this position is :\n$137,000.00 - $235,750.00Additional Description for Pay Transparency:\nSubject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan 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