Staff software systems engineer

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 MedTech, 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. Learn more at

Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Job Description:

About Surgery

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Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of MedTech surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our MedTech 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. Patients are waiting.

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We are searching for the best talent for a Staff Software Systems Engineer, to be located in Cincinnati, OH.

Job Description:

The Staff Software Systems Engineer will make vital contributions to the New Product Development (NPD) pipeline and transform patient care through innovation. They are responsible for working with our NPD teams to design and architect product software for use in cutting edge medical devices.

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Develop software architecture and requirements for highly complex medical capital systems.
• Create software interface control specifications for connected electromechanical systems.
• Collaborates with mechanical, electrical, software, and cybersecurity systems engineers to create robust product architectures.
• Develop detailed product requirements, engineering specifications, system architecture, detailed component specifications, verification and validation test protocols and reports.
• Design embedded product software to integrate with mechanical, electrical, and distributed computing systems.
• Mentor members of the engineering staff to conform to Industry Standards for Medical Device Software (IEC 62304).
  
  

Education:

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree is required; advanced degree preferred.
  
  

Minimum Requirements :

• Minimum of 6-8 years with Bachelors’ or 4-6 with Masters’ in a New Product Development environment with 4+ years in direct software engineering or software architectural role.
• A goal-oriented and performance-focused attitude, demonstrating a high level of accountability.
• Deep understanding of various embedded/system software design tools, operating systems and programming languages (e.g. Jira, Jama, Linux, QNX, Qt, C/C++/C#, JSON-RPC, Python, etc.).
• Proven experience with embedded software design is required.
• Demonstrated ability working with system-level tools and processes used for requirements management, risk management, issue tracking, and test automation (e.g. Jira, JAMA).
• Strong collaboration, proven technical leadership capabilities, and conflict resolution skills.
  
  

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience within medical devices and external standards such as IEC 62304
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering languages and tools (e.g. SysML, Cameo/MagicDraw, Enterprise Architect).
• Demonstrated ability working with embedded system security development
• Experience with Distributed Data Services (DDS), e.g. (RTI Connext, OpenDDS, MQTT, or similar distributed data sharing libraries).
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting embedded hardware systems.
• Experience within a heavily regulated industry or experience working with complex capital equipment.
  
  

Other Requirements:

• Requires up to 10% travel
  
  

This job posting is anticipated to close on 9/22/25. The Company may however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on to accept additional applications.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center ([email protected]) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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