Principal R&D Consumables 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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:
Biomedical Engineering

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Irvine, California, United States of America

Job Description:

About Vision

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

We are searching for the best talent for a Principal R&D Consumables Engineer based in Irvine, CA.

Purpose: The Principal R&D Consumables Engineer leads the technical strategy and execution for advanced consumable products, driving high-impact product and process development from concept through transfer to manufacturing.

This role combines deep hands‑on technical leadership, cross‑functional program leadership, and strategic vision to solve complex customer and patient needs.

The Principal Engineer is responsible for setting engineering direction, ensuring robust design and verification practices, managing technical risks, and mentoring more junior engineers.

Works with minimal oversight and routinely influences senior leaders and external partners.

You will be responsible for:


* Own the technical roadmap and architecture for major consumable products or portfolios; define technical strategy, key milestones, and success metrics.


* Lead complex, multi‑discipline development programs from concept through design verification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing; manage technical tradeoffs and priorities.


* Provide advanced mechanical and system design leadership: define product architectures, systems interactions, requirements decomposition, and high‑level design reviews.


* Lead root-cause and corrective actions


* Drive adoption of advanced engineering methods (e.g., simulation, mult...