Senior Electrical Engineer, R&d - Medtech

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Cincinnati, OH +1

Senior Electrical Engineer, R&D - MedTech at Johnson & Johnson in Cincinnati, OH. This role focuses on developing electrical system solutions for handheld medical devices, including circuit design, component selection, and integration of hardware and embedded software. Responsibilities include driving engineering changes, leading root cause investigations, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing technical mentorship. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or similar, 5+ years of R&D experience, and expertise in analog/digital circuitry, PCBA development, and verification/validation testing. Experience in regulated industries like medical devices is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver robust electrical system solutions, leading circuit design, component selection, and seamless integration of electrical hardware and embedded software.
  2. Drive and coordinate high‑impact engineering changes that improve devices’ electrical hardware and software performance and/or achieve cost‑optimization
  3. Lead or support root cause investigations, gap analysis, and corrective actions to quickly resolve electrical design, field performance, and manufacturing issues
  4. Drive compliance with applicable regulatory and industry, supporting verification, validation, risk management, and audit readiness.
  5. Provide technical mentorship, design guidance, coaching and best‑practice recommendations to engineers and project teams across the organization.

Skills

Required

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Analog circuitry design
  • Digital circuitry design
  • PCBA development
  • Root cause analysis
  • Verification and validation (V&V) testing
  • Test protocol authoring
  • Debugging electrical systems
  • Test equipment usage (oscilloscopes, power supplies, spectrum analyzers)
  • Collaboration
  • Technical leadership
  • Conflict resolution
  • Medical device sector experience
  • Regulated industries experience

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree
  • Hands-on expertise in rapid prototyping
  • Simulation
  • Iterative testing
  • IEC 60601 electrical safety standards
  • Battery design standards
  • Labview
  • C
  • C++
  • Python

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum Bachelor’s degree in in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar field is required.
  • A minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in a direct electrical engineering role in Research & Development is required.
  • Experience translating high-level customer needs into technical requirements, analyzing the tradeoffs and business impacts is required.
  • Experience with analog and digital circuitry design and development is required.
  • PCBA ideation, concept generation, design, prototyping, manufacturing, and troubleshooting experience are required.
  • Expertise in root cause analysis, verification and validation (V&V) testing and authoring test protocols is required.
  • Demonstrated ability to debug and test electrical systems using test equipment, such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, and spectrum analyzers is required.
  • Strong collaboration across organizational boundaries, proven technical leadership capabilities, and conflict resolution skills are required.
  • Experience in the medical device sector or other highly regulated industries is required.