Reliability and Test Engineer

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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Robotics & Digital Solutions, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, is recruiting for a Reliability and Test Engineer located in Santa Clara, CA.

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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.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

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 https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

Salary Range $87,000 - $140,300 Bay Area Only

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. 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 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 Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits