Director, Software Engineering, MONARCH

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

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

People Leader

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson Med Tech Surgery

Motivated 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 growing the possibilities of Med Tech surgery? Ready to join a team that is reimagining how we heal? Our Med Tech Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

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The Director, MONARCH Software will lead their team across Monarch product initiatives. This individual will lead the design, implementation, and documentation to help build a scalable robotic surgery business impacting millions of patients and expanding the capabilities of physicians globally.

At Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions, we're changing the trajectory of health for humanity, using robotics to enhance healthcare providers’ abilities and improve diagnoses, treatments, and recovery times for patients. Johnson & Johnson Robotics was established in 2020 with the integration of Auris Health, Verb Surgical, C-SATS, and Ethicon. It comprises three key med-tech platforms:
Flexible Robotics (MONARCH®), Surgical Robotics (OTTAVA™) and Digital Solutions. Join our collaborative, rapidly growing teams based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Santa Clara), Cincinnati, and Seattle. You'll collaborate on breakthrough medical technologies that unite multiple subject areas to build a connected digital ecosystem that advances medical professionals’ skills and improves patient outcomes.

• Lead, motivate, coach, and mentor a team of high-performing engineers and managers
• Establish team initiatives to achieve program goals and improve functional and technical excellence in areas including device software development related to graphical user interfaces, robotics and controls, firmware, and cybersecurity
• Demonstrate technical leadership across device software development, ensuring the high availability, reliability and robustness of MONARCH software
• Effectively influence R&D and cross-functional executives and shape business direction by challenging norms, driving change, and engaging with appropriate stakeholders
• Define, execute, and communicate the strategic vision for the mid‑to‑long‑term direction and technical roadmap of the team
• Maintain and drive functional alignment within R&D leadership by translating complex business/technical topics into clear decisions and actions for internal and partner organizations (Quality, Regulatory, Commercial) and external stakeholders (inclusive of customers)
• Lead and own outcomes for the SW R&D efforts (i.e., budget management, define priorities, resource allocation, delivery timelines, drive approvals and communications) for pre- and post-market needs of medical devices
• Ensure high-quality software and…