Principal Robotics System Engineer

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 . As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. Job Function: R&D Product Development Job Sub Function: Robotics Job Category: Scientific/Technology All Job Posting Locations: Allschwil, Basel-Country, Switzerland Job Description: About Orthopaedics 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 Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s 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 https://www.jnj.com/medtech We are searching for Principal Robotics Systems Engineer to be based out of Boston, MA or Grenoble, France or Zuchwil, Switzerland. Purpose: Principal Robotics Systems Engineer is a highly experienced individual contributor and technical specialist responsible for leading all aspects of systems engineering for a complex surgical robotic platform across its full product lifecycle. This role ensures cohesive system behavior across hardware, software, controls, and clinical workflows, applying rigorous systems engineering principles to a safety-critical medical device. This position partners closely with commercial, clinical, and product management stakeholders to translate clinical user needs, surgeon workflows, and business objectives into well-defined system requirements and successful new product introductions. The role ensures that customer, clinical, and regulatory expectations are effectively decomposed into robust, traceable system and subsystem solutions. The Principal Robotics Systems Engineer leads the end-to-end requirements flow-down process, including identification and engagement of clinical and business stakeholders, definition of user and system requirements, development of system architecture, and decomposition into clear, testable subsystem requirements. The role drives alignment between system architecture decisions and downstream implementation to ensure performance, safety, reliability, and usability objectives are achieved. This role plays a critical part in regulatory submissions and product releases by leading the planning, execution, and documentation of design control activities in compliance with FDA regulations, ISO 13485, IEC standards, and other applicable quality system requirements. Responsibilities include ownership of system-level risk management, requirements traceability, verification strategies, and design reviews. The Principal Robotics Systems Engineer works in close collaboration with electrical, software, controls, mechanical, clinical, quality, manufacturing, and verification & validation (V&V) teams. As a technical leader without direct people management responsibility, this role drives cross-functional integration, resolves complex