Mechanical Engineering Manager Spine Robotics

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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Mechanical Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America

Job Description:

About Orthopaedics

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 the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

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 to join our DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics team as a Mechanical Engineering Manager, based in U.S. (Boston, MA; Raynham, MA; Warsaw, IN; Palm Beach Gardens, FL) and EMEA (Gières, France; Oberdorf, Switzerland; Leeds–Beeston,England and Zuchwil, Switzerland)

Purpose:

The Robotics Mechanical Engineering Manager leads the mechanical engineering function responsible for the design, development, and delivery of high‑performance robotic systems. This role oversees a team of mechanical engineers and works cross‑functionally with systems, software, electrical, controls, manufacturing, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure robust, reliable, and manufacturable robotic solutions.

The Robotics Mechanical Engineering Manager is accountable for driving mechanical architecture, detailed design, and integration from early concept through commercialization, ensuring designs meet performance, safety, reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and cross‑functional collaboration, enabling the successful execution of complex programs in a regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive mechanical subsystem requirements, ensuring alignment with system‑level requirements, user needs, performance targets, and regulatory constraints.

• Lead the mechanical architecture and detailed design of robotic mechanisms, including articulated linkages, precision motion assemblies, gear‑based transmission systems, actuators, and structural components.

• Define and review mechanical design concepts, trade studies, and architecture decisions to balance performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and serviceability.

• Ensure mechanical designs support controls performance, including stiffness, backlash, friction, inertia, and dynamic response requirements.

• Design for Reliability (DfR) practices, including durability analysis, fatigue assessment, wear modeling, and lifetime testing strategies.

• Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DfM/DfA) efforts to ensure scalable, repeatable, and cost‑effective production.

• Partner with manufacturing engineering to optimize component sourcing, assembly processes, tolerances, and inspection methods.

• Ensure robust design margin and implementation of lessons learned from field data, validation testing, and post‑market feedback.

• Oversee and guide tolerance stack‑up analysis, ensuring precision requirements are met for kinematic accuracy, alignment, and functional performance.

• Lead and review thermal analysis, including heat generation, dissipation, thermal deformation, and impact on mechanical performance and reliability.

• Ensure appropriate use of analytical and simulation tools (FEA, thermal, kinematic modeling) to support design decisions and risk mitigation.

• Maintain mechanical design documentation, calculations, and analysis outputs suitable for design reviews, audits, and regulatory submissions.

• Collaborate closely with controls, electrical