Principal Scientist, R&D Process & Materials Characterization

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:
Materials/Biomaterials Science

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a Principal Scientist, R&D Process & Materials Characterization located in Jacksonville, Florida.

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 on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges.

Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life.

Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose: We are recruiting a strong individual contributor who will have responsibility for the development and implementation of new process and materials characterization techniques, new equipment identification or development, and test method development within the R&D Operations platform.

The individual will drive innovation of soft materials characterization.

This person will work as a technical leader in a highly collaborative environment and will use fundamentals of materials science, polymer chemistry, physical chemistry, and engineering to drive innovation, facilitate improvements, implement corrections, and lead risk management and mitigation.

The individual will lead the development of new instrumentation and measurement techniques (both internal and external collaborations) to investigate the role of monomer and polymer compositions on final in vitro material properties and performance of Class II and Class III medical devices.

Successful characterization and optimization of new materials, methods, and measurement techniques using designed experiments, problem solving, modeling, and decision-making making tools are critical to ensure efficient development.

You will:


* Provide timely and accurate reporting on project activities to peers and leaders...