Staff AIML Software Engr, Navigation

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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Boston Massachusetts United States of America Warsaw Indiana United States of America

Job Description:

About Orthopaedics

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 Orthopaedics Ready to join a team thats reimagining how we heal Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports extremities and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at are hiring for Staff AI/ML Software Engineer in a hybrid role to be based out of Warsaw IN or Boston MA.

Purpose:

As a Staff AI/ML Software Engineer in the Navigation R&D team you will architect plan and lead the AI/ML development and integration for nextgeneration surgical navigation and planning systems. Youll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of software systems hardware firmware quality and regulatory partners to deliver safe reliable and scalable software that directly impacts patient outcomes.

Job Responsibilities:

• Be a key contributor in the evolution of DePuy Synthes AI/ML platform for flexible machine learning model training fine-tuning transformation and evaluation use cases across various surgical navigation initiatives.
• Participate in product planning sessions to accurately define development timelines.
• Build production ready ondevice and cloud-based AI/ML systems with real clinical impacts to our customers.
• Mentor junior AI/ML software engineers.
• Drive model improvements using the latest techniques and approaches for evaluation and tuning.
• Contribute to regulatory documentation traceability and V&V aligned with IEC 62304 ISO 14971 and related guidance; support submissions (e.g. FDA 510(k)) as needed.
• Collaborate in Agile/Scrum workflows mentor junior engineers and lead design/code reviews to sustain longterm maintainability.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• BS/MS in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field
• 8 years of experience in machine learning engineering (or equivalent)
• Highly proficient in Python
• Strong AI/ML fundamentals Strong grounding in supervised and unsupervised learning model section cross-validation and evaluation metrics
• Hands-on experience developing machine learning models using various input data types (static images point clouds numerical data textual data etc.)
• Demonstratable experience and deep knowledge of ML frameworks such as Tensorflow Keras Pytorch scikit-learn etc.
• Demonstratable expertise in ML model training/optimization local/cloud (AWS Sagemaker Azure Studio)
• Experience developing AI systems in regulated environments (e.g. SaMD) such as surgical medical imaging or healthcare-related ML/AI applications with attention to traceability validation and auditability.
• Excellent ability to author technical documentation for AI/ML training and implementations.
• Proficiency across the full SDLC in a regulated environment: requirements design implementation testing traceability release and maintenance.
• Excellent communication collaboration and influence skills; ability to lead architecture and design reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in applying multiple types of AI technologies to products beyond traditional Machine Learning (Agentic AI Generative AI LLMs) (Big plus)
• Experience with on-device and cloud-based AI/ML implementations.
• Experience with AI-driven development and testing.
• Demonstratable experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience with requirements design documentation in tools like Polarion JAMA etc.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies as may be required regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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 based on disability.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Agility Jumps Analytical Reasoning Coaching Collaboration Critical Thinking Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Product Design Report Writing Requirements Analysis Research and Development SAP Product Lifecycle Management Scripting Languages Software Architectures Software Development Management Software Engineering Practices Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Technologically Savvy

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$109000.00 - $174800.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans employees are eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).



This position is eligible to participate in the Companys long-term incentive program.



Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire employees are eligible for the following time off 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 period10 days

Volunteer Leave 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off 80 hours per calendar year

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