Reliability and Test Engineer at Johnson &… · Santa…

Summary: Johnson & Johnson is a leader in healthcare innovation, seeking a Reliability and Test Engineer to join their Robotics & Digital Solutions team in Santa Clara, CA. This role focuses on improving the reliability of the Monarch robotic system through rigorous testing and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities: - Designing requirement and tests that target failure mechanisms. Ensuring verification demonstrates safety and effectiveness and not just requirement closure - Plan and execute reliability testing at the sub-assembly and system levels for the Monarch robotic system, partnering with cross-functional teams to bring prototypes to market - Design, build, and validate custom test fixtures and test methods to enable repeatable, controlled testing - Conduct test data analysis, and clearly communicate test results, and collaborate with design engineers to resolve issues detected in testing - Facilitate test failure root cause analysis to understand the root cause, failure mechanisms (mechanical, electrical, material, biological) and drive resolution and corrective actions for failures originating in testing - Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with design, reliability, and manufacturing engineers to suggest design and/or process improvements and address - Analyze field performance and identify trends in failure across various sub-systems. Perform life data analysis, identify risk areas, and implement process or design changes to address. Track reliability growth with these implemented changes - Validate customer usage compared to assumed test requirements / duty cycles, to identify any gaps in reliability test plan - Translating clinical and business needs into quantifiable reliability requirements. Inject reliability thinking early in design by translating intended use, duty cycle, and patient-risk assumptions into reliability requirements Required Qualifications: - Early in career candidate with a BS or MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related technical field is required - Demonstration of a complex multidisciplinary project involving design and test - Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills are a must - Presentation capabilities that can be tailored anywhere from peer to team-level - Ability to work independently or in a team setting - Must be self-directed, self-motivated and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities - Knowledge and ability to interpret and follow applicable regulations, guidelines, and policy statements is required - Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time Preferred Qualifications: - Deep command of physics‑of‑failure (PoF): fatigue, corrosion, creep, wear, dielectric breakdown, solder & interconnect failure - Hands-on experience with: HALT / HASS, ALT / Accelerated Stress Testing, Weibull, lognormal, and exponential modeling, Confidence & reliability growth (Duane, AMSAA) - Ability to translate field reliability targets (e.g., 1 ppm failure over X years) into design inputs and test strategy Required Skills: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics-of-failure, HALT, HASS, ALT, Accelerated Stress Testing, Weibull modeling, Lognormal modeling, Exponential modeling, Reliability growth modeling, Duane model, AMSAA model, Presentation capabilities Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, Short- and long-term disability, Business accident insurance, Group legal insurance, Consolidated retirement plan (pension), Savings plan (401(k)), Vacation –120 hours per calendar year, Sick time - 40 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, Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member, Caregiver Leave – 10 days, Volunteer Leave – 4 days, Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours