Senior Software Design Quality Engineer

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Danvers, MA +1

Senior Software Design Quality Engineer role at Johnson & Johnson's MedTech division, focusing on supporting New Product Development and sustaining activities for medical devices. Responsibilities include product risk management, cybersecurity, change controls, test reviews, and design controls, ensuring compliance with regulations like IEC 62304 and FDA guidelines. The role requires experience with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and Software in a Medical Device (SiMD) systems within the medical device industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive quality focused design and development of software within the software development lifecycle (Agile/waterfall/SAFe/DevOps) by defining the requirements, design, verification and validation plan and strategies while maintaining traceability.
  2. Use Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and Software in a Medical Device (SiMD) technical expertise, knowledge, and experience to rapidly innovate the company’s medical devices for use in chronic heart failure patients.
  3. Lead and conduct risk management activities including development of Risk Management Plans, Hazard Analyses, Software Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (SFMEA) and Risk Management Reports.
  4. Drive assessments of end user needs, standards requirements, and risk evaluations to generate design requirements and engineering targets which include but are not limited to software detailed designs, software architecture and specifications.
  5. Ensure that Design Controls are compliant with IEC 62304.

Skills

Required

  • 5 years of related work experience within the medical device industry on SaMD and SiMD systems
  • Experience with quality engineering under quality system regulations, including but not limited to 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 14971, IEC 62304, QSR, ISO 13485, MDSAP and/or MDD/MDR
  • Experience with software development lifecycle processes (waterfall, agile, and DevOps) as applied within the regulated medical device industry
  • Ability to communicate ideas and information clearly, effectively, and frequently (oral and written) within the internal project team and international

Nice to have

  • Work experience with Class III medical device capital equipment development
  • Experience with owning, conducting and maintaining risk management activities, including the risk management file
  • Experience with JAMA and Atlassian suite of tools (JIRA/Confluence)
  • Experience with cybersecurity within a regulated industry

What the JD emphasized

  • Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
  • Software in a Medical Device (SiMD)
  • IEC 62304
  • ISO 14971
  • QSR
  • ISO 13485
  • MDSAP
  • MDD/MDR