NPI Test Engineer​/Surgical Robotics-OTTAVA

Job Function

Supply Chain Engineering

Automation Engineering

Scientific/Technology

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson RAD (Robotics and Digital) is seeking an NPI Software Engineer/Surgical Robotics/OTTAVA for the Santa Clara location.

NPI Software Engineer/Surgical Robotics/OTTAVA focuses on developing and deploying test software solutions to support the manufacturing of complex electro‑mechanical components within a medical robotics system. The role involves designing automated test algorithms, building scalable software infrastructure, and ensuring high standards of repeatability and validation. It also supports troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and data‑driven insights to improve manufacturing processes while collaborating cross‑functionally with design, manufacturing, and data teams in a regulated Med Tech environment.

• Work closely with the Manufacturing and Design teams to design, develop, document, and qualify test software used during the manufacturing of electro‑mechanical components and subassemblies of a medical robotics system.
• Develop test algorithms, test scripts, data acquisition and measurement systems with a focus on repeatability and reproducibility.
• Write well‑designed, testable code to automate test processes utilizing in‑house developed software frameworks.
• Develop infrastructure such as common libraries and APIs to support multiple teams’ test software across manufacturing.
• Provide debugging and troubleshooting support on in‑house developed software scripts and processes.
• Perform root cause and failure analysis on electromechanical devices.
• Work with data platform solutions to automate analysis and processing of supply chain and manufacturing data.
• Release test software documentation and deploy software to a manufacturing environment.
• Develop qualification and validation protocols for complex software‑driven processes.
• Author and release validation documentation for software scripts and tools.
• Provide detailed status and tracking of activities.

• 5+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or related engineering field is required.
• Experience working on instrumentation automation and using scripting languages such as Python, Shell, SQL, Batch, Bash, or Linux commands is required.
• Proficiency in software engineering and development tools is required.
• Ability to produce high quality documentation that is clearly understandable by internal and external personnel is required.
• Experience with test software, scripting and test software design is required.
• Experience with automated testing of mechatronics or robotics systems is highly preferred.
• Experience in Product Lifecycle Management systems such as Oracle Agile is highly preferred.
• Experience in Medical Device industry is preferred.
• Understanding of electrical systems and power electronics is preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 10% to contract manufacturers is required.

• May require up to 10% of domestic and/or international travel.
• The attendance policy required for this role is Fully Onsite.

$75,000.00 to $

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following company‑sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the company’s long‑term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time‑off benefits:
Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year;
Sick time – 40 hours per calendar year (for employees who reside in the State of Washington – 56 hours per calendar year);
Holiday pay, including floating holidays – 13 days per calendar year;
Work, personal and family time –…