Principal Optical Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Principal Optical Systems Engineer (Robotics) J
Principal Optical Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Robotics & Digital Solutions, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, is recruiting for a Principal Optical Systems Engineer (Robotics) located in Santa Clara, CA who will develop endoscopic vision systems for a ground-breaking new surgical robot!

Robotics & Digital Solutions is part of Ethicon, Inc., a global leader in surgery with products and solutions found in almost every operating room around the world.

Ethicon has made significant contributions to surgery for more than 100 years from creating the first sutures, to revolutionizing surgery with minimally invasive procedures!

Our continuing dedication to Shape the Future of Surgery is built on our commitment to help address the world’s most pressing health care issues and improve and save more lives.

Through Ethicon’s surgical technologies and solutions including robotics, digital solutions, sutures, staplers, energy devices, trocars and hemostats and our commitment to treat serious medical conditions like obesity and cancer worldwide, we deliver innovation to make a life-changing impact.

For more information, visit www.ethicon.com .

You must be a multifaceted engineer who will be a thought-leader and systems architect in our growing advanced-concepts group.

We need inventive problem-solvers who quickly grasp and resolve a wide range of multi-functional problems and thrive on challenges inside and outside their core areas of expertise.

Do you combine speed and precision, making the right decisions fast and executing them in an agile hardware development process?

Would you love being at the center of a team of engineers that is passionate about bringing world-class surgical robotics products to market?

Join us!

What You Will Deliver
Invent concepts and identify design limits for new stereo endoscope architectures including ultra-compact form factors, new sensors, and innovative views.

Build preliminary Zemax models to demonstrate feasibility, identify likely trades, and set preliminary requirements.

Work with Mechatronics Engineers and small-camera design/fab firms to rapidly design and prototype.

Respond to fast-breaking requests from our world-class robotics and clinical teams to invent fresh vision architectures to support their rapid exploration of new surgical robotics approaches.

Work with wider Vision team to resolve resulting ISP needs, target enabling new technologies, and model inventive concepts to evaluate first-order trade-offs and feasibility.

Work with Imaging Algorithms group to build end-to-end (endoscope-to-display) image simulator to predict how design innovations and trade-offs will impact surgical image quality; develop metrics and tests to validate.

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