[Hiring] Senior Principal Clinical Engineer @Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Role Description

We are searching for Sr Principal Clinical Engineer to be based out of Warsaw, IN and Raynham MA, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Leeds, United Kingdom, and remote opportunity available as well.

The Clinical Engineer will act as a Procedural Workflow Architect to define and shape end-to-end surgical procedure workflows across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. This role translates clinical, operational, economic, usability, and adoption needs into integrated procedural requirements that guide implant, instrument, enabling technology, digital, biologic, and service development.

• Define and design end-to-end integrated procedural workflows for prioritized surgical procedures across preoperative planning, intraoperative execution, and postoperative follow-up including implants, instruments, technologies, digital applications, biologics, and services.
• Translate surgeon, care team, patient, health system, commercial, clinical, operational, economic, usability, and adoption needs into procedural requirements, user needs, use scenarios, design inputs, and development guidance.
• Map current- and future-state workflows to identify unmet needs, adoption barriers, usability challenges, economic pain points, and opportunities for meaningful differentiation.
• Partner with R&D, clinical, medical education, regulatory, quality, marketing, commercial, and external clinical stakeholders to align workflow priorities, solution intent, and integrated procedural requirements.
• Evaluate concepts for usability, workflow fit, clinical relevance, adoption risk, and end-user value to prioritize procedural problems and guide clinical, technical, operational, and business tradeoffs to improve efficiency, consistency, usability, and adoption.
• Translate procedural needs and complex inputs into requirements, recommendations, and development guidance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, biomedical engineering, life sciences, clinical discipline, health care administration, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in medical device, orthopaedics, surgical innovation, product development, clinical workflow design, human factors, systems engineering, or related health care technology environment.
• Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Miro, FigJam, Polarion native; experience with 3D visualization, CAD, KeyShot, Rhino, SolidWorks, NX or rapid prototyping methods is a plus.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder alignment skills; able to influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Lead ambiguous, early-stage problem framing and convert insights into structured development priorities.
• Familiarity with medical device development, design controls, risk management, and regulated product development.

Requirements

• Will require travel to R&D sites, labs, surgeon engagement sessions, customer research activities, or project workshops.
• Must comply with all applicable company policies, procedures, quality expectations, confidentiality requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Role may be aligned to front-end innovation, systems engineering, human factors, or product development depending on organizational structure and project needs.

Benefits

• Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year.
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado – 48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – 56 hours per calendar year.
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – 13 days per calendar year.
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year.
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child.
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member; 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year.
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period.
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year.
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year.