Reliability and Test Engineer

Johnson & Johnson•Santa Clara, CA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Robotics & Digital Solutions, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, is recruiting for a Reliability and Test Engineer located in Santa Clara, CA. About MedTech Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech The Flexible Robotics Team (MONARCH®) is seeking a highly skilled and innovative contributor to the Monarch Hardware Team. This role is responsible for not just for executing tests, but for owning reliability intent across the product lifecycle—from early concept through post‑market. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker who uses physics, data, and regulation to proactively protect patients while enabling disciplined product execution across the full lifecycle. As a Reliability and Test Engineer focused on electrical and mechanical testing, you will play a key role in improving the reliability of the Monarch robotic system across development testing, manufacturing, and field use with the goal to optimize the design for best-in-class lifetime customer experience.

Requirements

Early in career candidate with a BS or MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related technical field is required.
Demonstration of a complex multidisciplinary project involving design and test
Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills are a must.
Presentation capabilities that can be tailored anywhere from peer to team-level.
Ability to work independently or in a team setting.
Must be self-directed, self-motivated and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
Knowledge and ability to interpret and follow applicable regulations, guidelines, and policy statements is required.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Deep command of physics‑of‑failure (PoF): fatigue, corrosion, creep, wear, dielectric breakdown, solder & interconnect failure.
Hands-on experience with: HALT / HASS ALT / Accelerated Stress Testing Weibull, lognormal, and exponential modeling Confidence & reliability growth (Duane, AMSAA)
Ability to translate field reliability targets (e.g., 1 ppm failure over X years) into design inputs and test strategy.

Responsibilities

Designing requirement and tests that target failure mechanisms.
Ensuring verification demonstrates safety and effectiveness and not just requirement closure.
Plan and execute reliability testing at the sub-assembly and system levels for the Monarch robotic system, partnering with cross-functional teams to bring prototypes to market.
Design, build, and validate custom test fixtures and test methods to enable repeatable, controlled testing.
Conduct test data analysis, and clearly communicate test results, and collaborate with design engineers to resolve issues detected in testing.
Facilitate test failure root cause analysis to understand the root cause, failure mechanisms (mechanical, electrical, material, biological) and drive resolution and corrective actions for failures originating in testing
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with design, reliability, and manufacturing engineers to suggest design and/or process improvements and address
Analyze field performance and identify trends in failure across various sub-systems.
Perform life data analysis, identify risk areas, and implement process or design changes to address.
Track reliability growth with these implemented changes.
Validate customer usage compared to assumed test requirements / duty cycles, to identify any gaps in reliability test plan.
Translating clinical and business needs into quantifiable reliability requirements.
Inject reliability thinking early in design by translating intended use, duty cycle, and patient-risk assumptions into reliability requirements.

Benefits

medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 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
Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
Caregiver Leave – 10 days
Volunteer Leave – 4 days
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours