Pr. Engineer, Innovation Excellence

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 Med Tech, 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.

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R&D Product Development

Biomedical Engineering

Scientific/Technology

Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

We are searching for the best talent for Principal Engineer, Innovation Excellence. 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.

• Design & Development
  • Lead and own engineering design, prototyping, verification, and validation for next‑generation and current platform Access & Accessories products
  • Set and enforce technical approaches, principles, and engineering standards across projects to ensure modularity, scalability, and reuse.
  • Drive design decisions that balance clinical performance, manufacturability, cost, risk, and regulatory needs; lead complex trade‑off analyses and make authoritative recommendations.
  • Sponsor early‑stage technology evaluation and shepherd promising concepts through development
• Product Lifecycle & Sustaining Engineering
  • Provide portfolio‑level technical ownership for lifecycle strategy, product improvements, end‑of‑life planning, and sustained reliability enhancements.
  • Lead root cause investigations for major field events, define and direct corrective and preventive actions, and own cross‑functional escalation to resolution.
  • Prioritize and scope sustaining engineering initiatives to optimize safety, performance, cost of ownership, and customer satisfaction across installed products.
  • Drive long‑term reliability, serviceability, and obsolescence mitigation strategies across multiple product families.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
  • Act as the principal technical partner to manufacturing, supply chain, quality, regulatory, clinical, and commercial teams to align requirements, launch readiness, and lifecycle plans.
  • Support technical requirements definition and acceptance criteria during supplier selection, external development partnerships, and transfer to contract manufacturers.
  • Facilitate cross‑functional decision‑making, resolve technical conflicts, and ensure timely handoffs and readiness for commercialization.
• Regulatory & Quality Compliance
  • Ensure engineering deliverables and technical strategies fully support regulatory submissions and global compliance (IDE, 510(k), PMA pathways or equivalents).
  • Lead development of verification & validation strategies, design controls, test plans, and documentation required for regulatory approvals and quality systems for IE led initiatives.
  • Partner with regulatory and quality teams to address audits, CAPAs, and high‑severity escalations with technically defensible solutions.
• Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement
  • Identify and implement engineering, design, and process improvements that increase throughput, reduce variability, and lower product costs across development and manufacturing.
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