Staff R&D Engineer (Technologies Development)- Shockwave Medical

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Staff R&D Engineer (Advanced R&D)- Shockwave Medical to be located in Santa Clara, CA.

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Shockwave Medical, Inc., recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson, is a pioneer in the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease.

Shockwave Medical aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.

Description

Position Overview

The Staff R&D Engineer will use technical and leadership skills in the development of innovative products to treat coronary and peripheral vascular disease with potential to expand to other vascular diseases.

The Staff R&D Engineer will participate on multiple cross-functional development teams that manage projects from concept through commercialization, with a primary focus on early-stage / phase-zero development.

This role will serve as an individual contributor working cohesively with a technical team for the early-stage development period of projects.

Essential Job Functions


* Provide technical leadership for projects in the coronary and peripheral vascular space.


* Provide Tasks and assignments to technicians as required.


* Collaborate cross-functionally to gather and define user needs for new products


* Hands on prototyping to develop proof of concept designs, disease models and test methods based on the defined user needs and requirements.


* Perform bench testing to ensure appropriate design selection.


* Work closely with t...