Staff Manufacturing Electrical Engineer

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Electrical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

San Jose, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson's MedTech Surgery team at MONARCH is recruiting for a Staff Manufacturing Electrical Engineer within our Robotics & Digital Solutions (RAD) organization. This role is based in San Jose, California.

This role will provide hands-on electrical and electronics engineering support for complex robotic equipment, including system-level electrical architecture, PCB/PCBA electronics, manufacturing test systems, obsolescence management, and sustaining engineering activities.

Our MedTech team is working to solve pressing healthcare challenges through innovations at the intersection of biology and technology. We harness our deep expertise in surgery, orthopedics, vision, and interventional solutions to design healthcare solutions that are smarter, less invasive, and more personalized. The MedTech Surgery organization combines our surgical portfolio with Robotics & Digital technologies to advance the future of surgery.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that is reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the opportunity to deliver technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help support treatment of prevalent conditions such as lung cancer and kidney stones. Patients are waiting.

Key Role Responsibilities

• •Own and lead root-cause investigations for system-level electrical issues originating from manufacturing, field complaints, service activities, MRB dispositions, nonconformances, and sustaining engineering needs.
• •Solve electrical systems including power distribution, motor control, sensors, cabling, harnesses, interconnects, controllers, and system-level electronics.
• •Coordinate with R&D on system-level electrical changes and ensure proposed solutions are compatible with mechanical, firmware, software, and other system subsystems.
• •Drive electrical design changes through appropriate ECO and change-control processes.
• •Lead PCB/PCBA-level failure analysis and work with R&D to define and validate schematic, layout, component, and board-level changes required to resolve technical issues.
• •Review schematics, PCB layouts, component selections, test, and electronics architecture to find opportunities for reliability, manufacturability, performance, and cost improvements.
• •Support PCB/PCBA rework, prototype builds, engineering evaluations, and qualification of board-level design changes.
• •Partner with contract manufacturers and suppliers to implement PCB/PCBA rework, prototype builds, component substitutions, and board-level modifications.
• •Ensure Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT) considerations are addressed during sustaining design changes.
• •Lead electrical and electronics obsolescence-management activities and proactively identify component lifecycle risks.
• •Apply Altium, SiliconExpert, or equivalent engineering tools to support PCB design activities, component lifecycle analysis, and alternate component selection.
• •Find opportunities to replace obsolete, high-risk, or costly electronic components while maintaining product quality, performance, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
• •Support board-level upgrades and modifications intended to improve product performance, reliability, serviceability, supply continuity, or cost.
• •Lead or support Risk Management File updates resulting from electrical or electronics design changes.
• •Coordinate with R&D and Quality to ensure required risk documentation is updated and continued compliance with applicable electrical safety and EMC standards is maintained, including IEC 60601-1 and IEC 60601-1-2.
• •Lead or support CAPA and nonconformance investigations related to system-level electrical and PCB/PCBA issues.
• •Drive structured root-cause analysis, corrective actions, effectiveness checks, and investigation closure in alignment with Quality System and regulatory timelines.
• •Support manufacturing line-down situations, production escapes, reliability issues, service issues, and field-return investigations.
• •Provide hands-on technical guidance during solving, prototype builds, validation, reliability testing, and production implementation.
• •Partner closely with Manufacturing, R&D, Quality, Service, Supplier Quality, Operations, and external manufacturing partners to resolve complex electrical issues and maintain production continuity.
• •Communicate technical findings, risks, recommendations, status, and implementation plans clearly to technical and nontechnical partners.
• •Ensure engineering documentation, investigations, design-change rationale, and supporting records are complete, accurate, traceable, and audit-ready.
• •Support continuous improvement initiatives that improve manufacturing readiness, product reliability, test coverage, operational efficiency, and overall product lifecycle performance.

Required Qualifications

• •A minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical team; advanced degree in a relevant engineering field is preferred.
• •Substantial professional experience in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, sustaining engineering, manufacturing engineering, test engineering, or sophisticated electromechanical systems.
• •Strong hands-on experience fixing electrical systems and PCB/PCBA electronics.
• •Proven ability to perform structured root-cause analysis and translate findings into practical engineering solutions.
• •Ability to read, interpret, and modify electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, PCB layouts, component specifications, test procedures, and system architecture documentation.
• •12+ years of experience working in the medical device, healthcare, or life sciences industry.
• •Experience working with PCB/PCBA design, failure analysis, board-level debugging, component selection, or sustaining design changes.
• •Experience working multi-functionally with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Service, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
• •Knowledge of good manufacturing practices and documentation requirements for production processes.
• •Strong understanding of engineering change control, validation, documentation control, and Quality System requirements within a regulated environment.
• •Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly present technical findings and recommendations.
• •Demonstrated ability to independently prioritize multiple technical issues and drive activities through closure.
• •Demonstrate Credo-based leadership and collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• •Master’s degree, PhD, or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering field.
• •Experience in control engineering using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC