Function
R&D Product Development
Sub function
R&D Mechanical Engineering
Category
Senior Engineer, R&D Mechanical Engineering (ST6)
Location
Irvine / United States of America
Date posted
Jun 04 2025
Requisition number
R-016885
Work pattern
Fully Onsite
This job posting is anticipated to close on Jun 18 2025. We may however extend this time period, in which case the posting will remain available on www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.
Description
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 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 https://www.jnj.com

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are searching the best talent for a Staff Mechanical Engineer, R&D 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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
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.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor’s degree in mechanical or biomedical engineering with 6 years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 4 years of experience, or PhD with 2 years of industrial experience
• 3 years’ experience in early stage (pre-design freeze) catheter and/or cardiovascular device development preferred
• Minimum 1 year as team or project technical lead
• Experience with CAD software such as SolidWorks required
• Strong understanding of engineering materials, component selection, and design for reliability and manufacturability required
• Knowledge and experience in product development processes preferred
• Strong understanding of data analysis and statistics including design of experiments, Gage R&R, capability, etc. preferred
• 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.

• Lead the design of new or existing components and/or devices while ensuring that all design requirements are met.
• Develop customer requirements and product specifications with validated test methods
• Support or lead quality improvement initiatives such as process and product characterizations that lead to continuous / cost improvements.
• Study specifications, engineering blueprints, tool orders, and shop data and confer 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.
• Travel 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.
• Provide 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.