Staff Electrical Design Engineer - R&d

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

Staff Electrical Design Engineer, R&D role at Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Endo Surgery Inc. focused on designing, developing, and debugging electrical systems and PCBA for medical devices. Responsibilities include owning the PCBA lifecycle, documenting designs, integrating embedded software, leading root cause investigations, and developing hardware verification strategies. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with 5+ years of experience in PCBA design, embedded electrical design, and proficiency in Cadence/Altium.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the design, manufacturing, and lifecycle of a Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) that is critical to the functionality of the capital device.
  2. Document designs, specifications, and requirements per design control processes.
  3. Drive the design, development, and debugging of embedded product software to integrate with mechanical, electrical, and distributed computing systems.
  4. Lead root cause investigations on electrical and software related issues that arise during the prototype and production processes.
  5. Own the hardware verification strategy with Manufacturing and Test Engineers to implement automated testing of the capital equipment.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related degree
  • Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience in a direct electrical engineering role
  • PCBA design, manufacturing, and troubleshooting experience
  • Experience with embedded electrical design
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Cadence and/or Altium to design, simulate, and analyze circuit designs
  • Detailed understanding of board-level printed circuit design and signal integrity issues
  • Demonstrated ability working across subject areas with internal and external partners
  • Strong collaboration, proven technical leadership capabilities, and conflict resolution skills

Nice to have

  • Design control experience
  • Experience debugging embedded hardware systems
  • FPGA design and test experience (SystemVerilog or VHDL)
  • Experience with various communication protocols (e.g. Bluetooth, SPI, I2C, USB, UART, USART, etc.)
  • Experience with Distributed Data Services (DDS), e.g. (RTI Connext, OpenDDS, MQTT, or similar distributed data sharing libraries)
  • Experience with IEC 60601-1, 60601-1-2, IEC 60601-2-2, IEC 62304, etc. and relevant standards within Medical Devices, or equivalent standards in other industries
  • Experience with CANOpen communication protocol
  • Experience working with different Operating Systems, particularly QNX and Linux
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity threat assessment and mitigation strategies
  • Use of Agile methodology as part of daily activities

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience in a direct electrical engineering role
  • PCBA design, manufacturing, and troubleshooting experience
  • Experience with embedded electrical design
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Cadence and/or Altium to design, simulate, and analyze circuit designs
  • Detailed understanding of board-level printed circuit design and signal integrity issues