Senior R&D Manager, Platform Integration

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 jnj.com

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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Digital

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

We are seeking top talent for the Senior R&D Manager, Platform Integration role on our DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team, based in Raynham, MA.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.  Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopedics 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 https://www.jnj.com/medtech

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. 

Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Summary: The Senior Manager Platform Integration leads delivery and integration of the Sports capital equipment and arthroscopy portfolio across both new product development (NPD) and lifecycle management (LCM), ensuring products are successfully delivered and function as a cohesive system. This role drives alignment across technologies, teams, and partners so that independently developed subsystems integrate reliably across current and future platforms, while identifying and scaling capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization.

This role works cross‑functionally, both internally and externally with engineering, software and infrastructure, marketing, clinical, supply chain, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure robust, reliable, and manufacturable solutions.  They will also work closely with legal and business development to draft and review contracts and agreements. 

The Senior Manager Platform Integration is accountable for execution from design through commercialization, ensuring designs meet performance, safety, reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and cross‑functional collaboration, enabling the successful execution of complex programs in a regulated environment.

 You will:

• Lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers responsible for the development and delivery of high performance, reliable, arthroscopic equipment solutions, including visualization, fluid management (FMS), resection, and instrumentation.
• Own and drive system requirements, ensuring alignment with system‑level requirements, user needs, performance targets, and regulatory constraints
• Identify critical paths during product development, address bottlenecks and risks and facilitate problem solving across R&D teams.
• Ensure robust design margin and implementation of lessons learned from field data, validation testing, and post‑market feedback.
• Partner with system architects and technical leads to align design and system behavior
• Define and review design concepts, trade studies, and architecture decisions to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and serviceability.
• Ensure appropriate use of analytical and simulation tools (FEA, thermal, kinematic modeling) to support design decisions and risk mitigation.
• Maintain design documentation, calculations, and analysis outputs suitable for design reviews, audits, and regulatory submissions.
• Collaborate closely with electrical, system, and software teams to ensure seamless mechanical‑electrical‑firmware integration.
• Support verification and validation (V&V) activities by ensuring requirements are testable, traceable, and validated through appropriate methods.
• Participate in and contribute to risk management activities, including DFMEA and system‑level hazard analysis.
• Review test results, investigate failures, and drive corrective actions for issues identified during development, validation, or field use.
• Ensure designs comply with applicable regulatory and quality standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601 standards, material compliance).
• Partner with quality and regulatory teams to support design controls, audits, and regulatory submissions.
• Ensure documentation, design outputs, and change management comply with quality system requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of multidisciplinary engineers, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Assign work, set technical direction, conduct design reviews, and provide coaching to support professional growth.
• Plan and execute engineering and project deliverables in alignment with program schedules and business objectives.
• Ensure appropriate resource allocation across the portfolio, identifying capability gaps, while clearly communicating trade-offs and priority decisions.
• Prepare annual and multi-year budget and resource plans aligned with business strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and best practices.
• Stay current with advancements and appropriate applications for AI, automation, and digital surgery.
• Encourage innovation while maintaining disciplined engineering rigor, reliability, and compliance.
• Responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition, if applicable
• Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
• Performs other duties assigned as needed

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering; advanced degree preferred
• 9+ years of experience in medical device design/development, and application.
• Experience managing teams and/or leading mentoring others.
• Experience with Class II or Class III medical devices is preferred.
• Knowledge of embedded systems and software as a medical device.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and product development lifecycle (e.g., V-model, waterfall, Agile).
• Ability to inspire, motivate, and contributes positively to a high performing team-oriented culture.
• Ability to work in a lab setting, including validation activities with cadaveric specimens.
• Experience with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, Polarion).
• Familiarity with test automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB).
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills.
• Certification in CQE, CQA, or Six Sigma is a plus.
• Proficient in sample size calculation and statistical methods for analyzing data.

Other:

• Ability to travel up to 10% may be required both domestic and international

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Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Consulting, Data Savvy, Data Structures, Developing Others, Digital Fluency, Digital Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Engineering, Global Market, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Negotiation, Operations Management, Product Development, Research and Development, Risk Assessments, SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Tactical Planning

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$137,000.00 - $235,750.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

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


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

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