Principal Software Engineer Tech Lead

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Johnson & Johnson MedTech is focused on shaping the future of digital surgery and expanding its robotics and digital solutions offerings across the entire portfolio with multi-specialty end-to-end solutions in endoluminal intervention general surgery and a comprehensive digital portfolio. This includes the Polyphonic platform a first-of-its-kind digital platform that advances patient empowerment surgical performance operating room (OR) collaboration and operational efficiency by synchronizing devices data and AI driven insights in one place to simplify access build confidence and unify a non-linear care experience.

We are recruiting for a Principal Software Engineer Technical Lead within the Polyphonic Product Engineering team located in Santa Clara CA. Johnson & Johnson is building the next generation of intelligence infrastructure and platforms to capture extract and apply intelligence from the OR and surgical workflows.

This is an opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary team of product managers applied scientists software engineers and clinical experts who will push the boundaries for surgical AI and make it widely accessible. ML Platform is central to scaling training and inference across millions of video frames and images and drives core AI functionality for the developer workflows. We build primitives and foundational capabilities that would let internal and external teams train evaluate deploy operate and monitor models quickly and compliantly essentially automating experimentation to production workflows. Were looking for a Principal Engineer who treats platform as a product and can turn complex ML/AI workflows into clear durable APIs and easy-to-use CLIs/UIs that data scientists and developers would love.

This role blends product thinking developer experience backend engineering and fluid user experience combining deep code vs no-code. Hands on ML experience is a plus.

You Will

• Bring technical ownership of a platform as a product and ship scalable APIs SDKs CLIs and UIs that make ML platform easy to adopt and cater specifically to accelerate surgical AI.

• Build shared ML infra with the platform infrastructure team and principal engineers for the infrastructure team to develop/extend core components: Serving Layer Model Registry Pipeline Orchestrator and Training/Inference control planes.

• Design great developer experiences with defined templates golden paths opinionated defaults and clear documentation to reduce time to first production.

• Develop instrumentation to measure adoption friction reliability and cost; use data to prioritize roadmap and validate outcomes.

• Partner across organizations (ML Engineering Data Science Infra/SRE Security Finance) to optimize performance safety and spend especially for GPU intensive training and highQPS inference.

• Stay up to date with industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of groundbreaking technologies and practices.

You Have

• Bachelors or MS degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Data Science or a similar technical field.

• 5 years of system design experience upon which to draw to build a scalable reliable ML platform.

• Proficiency in API design and developer experiencegRPC/REST APIs SDKs CLIs and simple UIs that developers love to use.

• Experience with the end-to-end ML model lifecycle such as model serving training model CI/CD and GPU resources management and have built ML platform features that are delightful to use.

You Are

• Seasoned coder; you love not only to design and communicate ideas but also to actually ship product. You obsess about refining developer experience and reducing friction

• Passionate about supporting ML engineers to meet and understand their needs and translating them into clean durable platform abstractions.

• Youre passionate about infrastructure as code and automating painful manual processes. You advocate for platform solutions that dont leave on-call teams guessing.

• A clear communicator who excels at both written and verbal communication across differing levels of technical details.

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• Location: Santa Clara CA

• Up to 15% travel required in the US and internationally

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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 or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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