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Job Function: Technology Product & Platform Management
Job Sub Function: Software Engineering - DevOps
Job Category:Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:Santa Clara, California, United States of America
Job Description:Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer-NPI, to join our Robotics & Digital Solutions team in Santa Clara, CA.
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Roles and responsibilitiesWe are seeking a Staff Software Engineer in a NPI Manufacturing Engineering organization to design, build, and scale a robust data infrastructure that enables the collection, integration, and analysis of manufacturing data across equipment, test systems, automation platforms, and enterprise systems. This role will be foundational in enabling standardized, high-quality data pipelines that support real-time visibility, advanced analytics, AI/ML use cases, and digital manufacturing initiatives.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in creation of a data strategy
- Design and implement scalable data pipelines to ingest manufacturing data from diverse sources such as equipment, test systems, vision systems, MES, and IoT platforms
- Build cloud-based and/or hybrid data platforms enabling batch and streaming data processing.
- Develop APIs and services that enable consumption of manufacturing data by analytics, dashboards, AI/ML models, and downstream applications.
- Partner with enterprise IT and architecture teams to align with security, compliance, and scalability standards.
- Define and implement common data models, schemas, and metadata standards to support consistency across software platforms
- Investigate and develop AI technologies and solutions for the manufacturing environment
- Perform data analysis and preprocessing to support model training, including handling large datasets and cleaning raw data
- Support development of automated unit and integration test for robotic hardware and/or PCAs
- Develop modular test scripts to automate test data collection and analysis
- Help to structure new software and refactor existing software for testability
- Hold formal technical reviews with stakeholders to release software libraries, tools, documentation, and test scripts
General Engineering and Leadership - Management of software projects
- Coaching and development of junior software engineers
- Communication of complex technical problems to a non-technical audience
- Applies disciplined software decision-making process
- Lead software strategies in development and validation
- Develop coding standards to be used by the entire NPI Engineering organization
- Align teams and individuals in software best practices
- Produce high quality documentation that is clearly understandable by internal and external personnel
- Strong level of ownership, accountability, and drive for exceeding expectations
Qualifications:
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or similar degree)
- 8+ years work experience in software roles
- Strong proficiency in Edge Computing and Cloud Computing
- Familiarity with model deployment and scaling in multiple cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Experience and collaboration with enterprise level IT organizations
- Experience working on instrumentation automation and using scripting languages such as Python, Shell, Batch, Bash or Linux commands.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git
- Experience in Product Lifecycle Management systems such as Oracle Agile
- Ability to travel up to 10% to contract manufacturers is required
Preferred Skills:- Experience in the medical device industry and standards
- Experience with industry 4.0 technologies and smart manufacturing
- Experience in developing AI-based applications such as natural language processing (NLP) generative AI in Small language models, computer vision, or recommendation systems
- Knowledge of deep learning techniques, reinforcement learning, and neural networks or other advanced machine learning paradigms
- Familiarity with MLOps principles and tools for automating machine learning workflows
- Knowledge of database systems (SQL, NoSQL) and data storage solutions
- Knowledgeable and current with Industry automation trends and technologies
- Familiarity working on Advanced automation including articulated robotics
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, please contact us via or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
Required Skills:Preferred Skills:The anticipated base pay range for this position is :$118,000.00 - $203,550.00
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
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