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:** Materials/Biomaterials Science **Job Category:** Scientific/Technology **All Job Posting Locations:** Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America **Job Description:** We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a **Principal Scientist, R&D Process & Materials Characterization** located in **Jacksonville, Florida.** 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 **Purpose:** We are recruiting a strong individual contributor who will have responsibility for the development and implementation of new process and materials characterization techniques, new equipment identification or development, and test method development within the R&D Operations platform. The individual will drive innovation of soft materials characterization. This person will work as a technical leader in a highly collaborative environment and will use fundamentals of materials science, polymer chemistry, physical chemistry, and engineering to drive innovation, facilitate improvements, implement corrections, and lead risk management and mitigation. The individual will lead the development of new instrumentation and measurement techniques (both internal and external collaborations) to investigate the role of monomer and polymer compositions on final in vitro material properties and performance of Class II and Class III medical devices. Successful characterization and optimization of new materials, methods, and measurement techniques using designed experiments, problem solving, modeling, and decision-making making tools are critical to ensure efficient development. **You will:** + Provide timely and accurate reporting on project activities to peers and leadership. + Coordinate multi-functional teams of scientists, engineers and/or technicians as necessary to achieve project completion. + Lead research assignments involving projects of major magnitude and scope. + Pursue opportunities to unlock new ways to creatively and innovatively tackle business problems that impact processes, material and method capabilities, and the team. + Excel at a high technical expertise level involving planning development and design of materials, equipment, processes, and/or methods within lab and pilot scale environments. + Present at internal forums and publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals. + Develop patent protected science-based innovations to enhance visual performance. + Collaborate with other scientists and engineers to accelerate development and launch of products by creating novel material characterization methods necessary to develop next-generation ophthalmic materials. + Work with third party suppliers, external collaborators, and an interdisciplinary technical team. + Apply design of experiments; data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation; conduct literature and patent searches; organization and assimilation of literature search results. + Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills required. + Have strong analytical approach to problem solving to deliver innovative + solutions. + Track, trend, develop, and implements equipment and/or method improvements that will increase method capability, efficiency, safety, and/or equipment reliability. + Interact with intellectual property, legal, clinical, quality and regulatory functions. **Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant technical field (Science and Engineering preferred). Master’s degree or PhD highly preferred. + 10 years of relevant experience in a medical device industry with BS Degree; 8 years with a MS Degree; 5 years with a PhD. + Knowledge in polymer physical chemistry and determination of structure property relationships required. Highly preferred experience with hydrogel materials, solvated polymer networks, soft material surface characterization, and/or investigation of polymer-polymer or polymer-solvent interactions. + Extensive experience with soft materials characterization, including one or more of the following: mechanical characterization (e.g. DMA, nanoindentation, rheology), spectroscopy (e.g. FTIR, Raman, UV-VIS), scattering techniques (e.g. DLS/SLS, neutron scattering, X-ray scattering) and/or microscopy (e.g. optical, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy). Additional experience with computational modeling highly preferred. + Previous experience with instrumentation design, development, and validation preferred. + Proven technical leadership and/or significant participation in the scientific community is required. + Experience with statistical analysis software (Minitab, JMP, etc.) required. + Must be detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to manage multiple tasks. + Must have the ability to work individually (independently) as well as on a team. + Currently authorized to work in the U.S. + Up to 10% travel _Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act._ _Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource._ **The anticipated base pay range for this position is :** $115,000-$-190,000 Additional Description for Pay Transparency: Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: 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 Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits