Software Application Engineer/Surgical Robotics - OTTAVA

Johnson & Johnson RAD (Robotics and Digital) is seeking a Software Application Engineer for a Digital Manufacturing team delivering smart-factory solutions and analytics to enable scalable automation.

• Build and maintain digital manufacturing applications (edge services, APIs/microservices, and web dashboards).
• Integrate OT/IIoT systems (PLCs, robots, vision, AMRs) with cloud and enterprise platforms (e.g., MES, data lake, analytics) using industrial protocols/APIs (OPC UA, MQTT, REST).
• Design and deploy automation solutions (RPA, agent‑based workflows, and LLM/RAG‑enabled assistants) with human‑in‑the‑loop controls, safety gates, and auditable logs.
• Operate and scale solutions through lifecycle management (scheduling, versioning/rollback, monitoring/observability) and reusable documentation/runbooks.
• Plan and execute testing/deployment activities (FAT/SAT, commissioning, run‑at‑rate) and produce validation d...