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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:\nScientific/TechnologyAll Job Posting Locations:\nBoston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of AmericaJob Description:\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\nWe are searching for Staff Clinical Engineer to be based out of Boston, Massachusetts, USA or Raynham, Massachusetts with in office expectations of a minimum of 3 days per week.\nPurpose:\nThe Staff Clinical Engineer will work closely with product development teams and clinicians to drive early-stage ideas into high-impact, clinically relevant devices and features that redefine surgical robotics and navigation for orthopedics. The Staff Clinical Engineer will accelerate the transfer of breakthrough technologies from concept to clinical application, ultimately improving patient outcomes and expanding market leadership. Their primary focus is to provide clinical and technical expertise to inform user needs, clinical requirements, and real-world performance considerations in order to deliver safe, effective, and differentiated solutions. This role also supports other cross-functional teams, external research institutions, and industry partners, acting as a catalyst for disruptive innovation and continuous product improvement by providing clinical and scientific expertise throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring post-commercial performance meets the design intent.\nJob Responsibilities:\nContribute clinical and technical expertise to the ideation, conceptualization, and early-stage evaluation of novel design concepts.\nSupport projects through feasibility assessment and prototype development, ensuring alignment with clinical needs and applicable regulatory pathways.\nSupport the preparation and delivery of prototype and product demonstrations for internal stakeholders, customers, and external partners.\nCollaborate with HEMA, marketing, R&D and medical affairs to define the patient journey and product maps\nDrive clinical and operational quantitative needs to increase innovation value\nLead the creation of clinical hazard analyses and procedure-specific risk maps to inform project scope and streamline timelines.\nStay at the forefront of Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery by evaluating emerging trends in surgical robotics, other navigated devices and emerging surgical techniques.\nTranslate insights into actionable project goals and provide input to prototype development activities that maintain competitive advantage.\nIdentify critical tasks, potential use errors, and hazardous situations in clinical contexts.\nCollaborate with systems engineering to design test methods, models, and metrics to ensure test protocols and validation activities reflect realistic clinical scenarios and user profiles.\nAnalyze clinical workflows, environments, and pain points to inform system concepts and architecture.\nConduct observation studies to identify pain points, inefficiency and complications. \nGather Voice of the Clinician (VoC) and clinical insights to help identify unmet clinical needs and translate them into system-level opportunities and requirements.\nSupport Voice of Customer sessions with surgeons by preparing session materials and product or prototype demonstrations, facilitating structured feedback, and documenting actionable clinical insights.\nCollaborate with quality, systems and human factors engineering to conduct preclinical, formative, summative, and validation studies throughout the design process.\nAnalyze complaints, field data, and adverse events from a clinical use perspective.\nSupport Commercial Education teams in developing and delivering training programs for newly launched products.\nProvide on-site support during initial product commercialization and the escalation of critical performance product complaints.\nResponsible for communicating business-related issues or opportunities to next management level\nQualifications/Requirements:\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, Electrical, Robotics Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Master’s or PhD preferred, with a focus on medical device development, or related fields.\nMinimum of 2-3 years of hands-on experience in the orthopaedic space is required (e.g., orthopaedic medical device R&D, clinical or field support, or surgical robotics/navigation for joint reconstruction), with a solid understanding of orthopaedic anatomy, surgical techniques, instrumentation, and implant workflows.\nExperience with surgical robotics/computer assisted surgery and principles of biomechanics.\nStrong problem-solving, analytical reasoning, and decision-making skills.\nAbility to operate independently within a fast-paced, innovative environment.\nMinimum of 7+ years in medical device R&D, including at least 2-3 years in the orthopaedic space, with hands-on experience in one or more of the following: supporting technology in the operating room, early-stage innovation, or device design and development.\nWorking knowledge of orthopaedic procedures (e.g., hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasty) and operating room workflows, gained through direct clinical exposure such as case coverage, cadaver or sawbone labs, or clinical studies, and close collaboration with surgeons and clinical staff.\nProven track record of contributing clinical and technical expertise to complex projects from concept evaluation through prototype development, initial validation, and initial clinical use.\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage projects with minimal supervision.\nStrong entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on disruptive innovation and strategic growth.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting to executive leadership, regulatory bodies, and external partners. Proven ability to foster collaborative relationships across internal teams and external research institution.\nThis position will require significant interactions with customers of J&J, field sales leaders and external development partners\nWork closely with Health Care Professionals (Surgeons), to conduct preclinical, formative, summative, and validation studies throughout the design process\nInteractions with Health Care Professionals (Surgeons, Clinical Staff) Field Sales, Commercial Education, and Professional Education, administering field based complaint characterization, risk assessments and onsite remediation.\nCollaborate with third-party development partners during prototype development by providing clear clinical specifications, design inputs, and feedback throughout the design process to ensure alignment with clinical, technical, and business requirements.\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.\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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