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Senior Robotics Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager

Johnson & Johnson MedTech · Boston, MA

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Level
Manager
Team
Quality
Base pay
$137k–$236k
Degree
Required
Experience asked
7+ years
Industry
Medical devices
Posted
Yesterday

The role in 30 seconds

A management quality role at Johnson & Johnson MedTech (medical devices) in Boston, MA. Design, validate, and implement test methods, including manual and automated test setups, to ensure they are suitable for verifying product requirements, including repeatability, reproducibility.

They ask for
7+ years · degree required
Tools it names
Root cause, ISO 13485, FDA / GMP, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Robotics
Base pay
$137k–$236k

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From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026

Quality Engineer roles in Massachusetts: typical posted base $108k–$155k. This one lists $137k–$236k.

Median of the low and high ends of 52 live postings that list pay, out of 74 quality engineer openings in Massachusetts, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 73 other live quality postings in Massachusetts.

Base pay
About 57% above similar roles

Typical $100k–$138k, from 39 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
More than usual (7+ vs 5+)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ Root cause 69%
  • ✓ FDA / GMP 58%
  • ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 51%
  • CAPA 49%
  • ✓ ISO 13485 45%
  • Supplier quality 36%

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Stands out: this posting asks for Robotics, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 7+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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requirements

and are safe, effective, and compliant for their intended clinical use. This role plays a critical part in supporting regulatory submissions and product releases by planning, executing, and documenting comprehensive V&V activities in accordance with FDA regulations, ISO 13485, IEC standards, and other applicable regulatory and quality system requirements.

The Senior Robotics V&V Engineering Manager leads a team of Verification & Validation and Integration Engineers, providing technical and people leadership to ensure that robotic systems meet all subsystem and system level

requirements

throughout development and release.

Working cross functionally with systems, software, hardware, clinical, robotics, manufacturing, and quality teams, the Senior Robotics V&V Engineering Manager ensures that design outputs are verified and validated against user needs, intended use, system and subsystem requirements, and risk controls. This role requires strong technical depth, excellent collaboration and leadership skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a regulated, multidisciplinary environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • ◆Lead a team of Verification & Validation and Integration Engineers to ensure robotic systems meet all defined subsystem and system level requirements.
  • ◆Collaborate closely with systems engineering, hardware, and software teams to ensure

requirements

are clearly defined, testable, and fully traceable from user needs and system/subsystem

requirements

through verification and validation.

  • ✓Define minimum testable

requirements

following design or requirement changes, applying a risk-based approach that considers essential performance and basic safety.

  • ✓Develop and execute comprehensive V&V strategies and master system test plans for complex medical devices, including system verification protocols and regression strategies to ensure robust

requirements

coverage. This includes oversight of investigation, integration, reliability, and formal verification and validation testing.

  • ✓Prepare and deliver system-level V&V documentation, including summary reports and verification results.
  • ✓Reviewing and approving sub-system verification deliverables to ensure alignment with overall system requirements.
  • ✓Design, validate, and implement test methods, including manual and automated test setups, to ensure they are suitable for verifying product requirements, including repeatability, reproducibility.
  • ✓Coordinate and manage engagement with external test facilities (e.g., NRTLs, EMC, and restricted materials laboratories) to ensure full regulatory compliance and adherence to internal company policies.
  • ✓Oversee the maintenance of robotics test lab facilities, ensuring all equipment and infrastructure are properly calibrated, serviced, and compliant with company safety, quality, and procedural standards; proactively identify and resolve issues to support uninterrupted testing and development workflows.
  • ✓Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, IEC 60601, ISO 14971).
  • ✓Support design transfer and product launch activities including complaints investigations.
  • ✓Investigate and document non-conformances, deviations, and test failures, drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
  • ✓Interface with regulatory, quality, and manufacturing teams to support audits and inspections.
  • ✓Communicate business-related issues or opportunities to next management level
  • ✓Follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices as applicable.
  • ✓Ensure that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition.
  • ✓Ensure personnel and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures.
  • ✓Identify critical paths during product development, address bottlenecks and risks and facilitate problem solving across R&D teams.
  • ✓Support project resource and schedule planning.

Required Qualifications

  • ✓Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • ✓7+ years of experience in V&V engineering within the medical device industry.
  • ✓Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and product development lifecycle (e.g., V-model, waterfall, Agile).
  • ✓Experience with

requirements

management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, Polarion).

Preferred Qualifications

  • ✓Experience with Class II or Class III medical devic
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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 jnj.com

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Job Function

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Robotics Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager to join our Orthopaedics team. This is a hybrid role located in Boston, MA .

Purpose

The Senior Robotics Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring that robotic products meet all defined system and subsystem level

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