Staff Software Systems Engineer

At Johnson & Johnsonwe believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented treated and curedwhere treatments are smarter and less invasive andsolutions are 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 more at

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Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology were developing the next generation of smarter less invasive more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of MedTech surgery Ready to join a team thats 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 worlds most prevalent conditions such as obesity cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at are searching for the best talent for a Staff Software Systems Engineer to be located in Cincinnati OH.

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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).
  

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Education:

• Minimum Bachelors 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 & 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 internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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