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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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub** **Function:

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies is recruiting for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering within our Robotics & Digital Solutions organization. The location for this position is located in **Santa Clara, CA** .

At Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions, we’re changing the trajectory of health for humanity, using robotics to enhance healthcare providers’ abilities and improve patients’ diagnoses, treatments, and recovery times. Johnson & Johnson Robotics was established in 2020

with the integration of Auris Health, Verb Surgical, C-SATS, and Ethicon. It comprises three key med-tech platforms: Flexible Robotics (MONARCH®), Surgical Robotics (OTTAVA™), and Digital Solutions. Join our collaborative, rapidly growing teams in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City and Santa Clara), Cincinnati, and Seattle. You’ll collaborate on breakthrough medical technologies that unite multiple subject areas to build a connected digital ecosystem that advances medical professionals’ skills and improves patient outcomes.

Overview:

The Sr. Manger, Software Engineering plays a key role in leading the development of software in three key areas: infrastructure, connectivity, and security. This individual will understand our software from a technical perspective and our product’s viewpoint, guiding their team in the design and development of the applications and tools that ultimately enable surgeons. We are setting a new industry benchmark for robotic surgical capability. We are looking for a candidate who can lead, mentor, and motivate their team to successful software delivery. The candidate is flexible, self-motivated, curious and passionate about revolutionizing the world of medical robotics and software.

Key Responsibilities:

+ Build, lead, and mentor a team of hardworking engineers focused on providing software supporting multiple surgical robotics products

+ Contribute to the software architecture design to enable future enhancements and iterative releases

+ Collaborate with partner organizations to identify and drive technical and process improvements with the goal of improving developer and user efficiency

+ Engage with internal and external partners from both business and technical perspectives

+ Support C++ and Python software development, facilitate design discussions, and support software development best practices

+ Identify, manage and mitigate technical and project risk through coordination with teams in R&D and external collaborators

+ Coach and mentor software engineering managers, and promote broader team development

+ Managing teams developing software under IEC 62304 and FDA guidance documents

+ Provide technical leadership in multiple areas, including middleware and communications, software security, and cloud integration

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, And Experience:

+ Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

+ 5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.

+ 10+ years of professional experience developing software products.

+ Strong understanding of software design principles, architecture, and cloud integration.

+ Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, team-oriented approach.

+ Proven leadership and collaboration skills, including success working with distributed and cross-functional teams meeting or exceed project goals.

+ Experience working in a regulated environment, ensuring compliance with ISO 13485, 21 CFR 820, or similar regulatory standards.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, And Experience:

+ Experience delivering software for medical devices.

+ Proficiency with cloud integrations.

+ Proven experience developing C++ applications for multi-target environments (real-time and non-real-time Linux).

+ Experience working in an Agile development environment.

+ Experience with IEC 62304 (medical device software development).

Other Requirements:

+ The location for this position is Santa Clara, CA and may require up to 10% travel.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.

Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.

Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

+ Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year

+ Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

+ Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year

+ Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

This job posting is anticipated to close on 10/20/25. The Company may however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.careers.jnj.com 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 & 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, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers . internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $168,000.00 to $271,400.00

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