Senior Staff Electrical Engineer, R&D - NPD

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Who We Are

Stryker is seeking to hire a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer, R&D to support Orthopaedic Instrument’s new product development team.

This role is hybrid, in Portage, MI with the expectation to come into the office 3 days a week. 

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Who We Want

• Motivated product launchers. Engineers who bring strategic direction and drive for execution to ensure products are developed and launched with precision.
• Dedicated achievers. Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will passionately work to ensure a project and product satisfies customer needs and meets regulations and expectations.
• Curious learners. Engineers who seek out practical methods and information to expand and enhance their ability.
• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

 What You Will Do

The Senior Staff Electrical Engineer, R&D - NPD will design, develop, modify, and evaluate the development of medical devices that support our robotic and computer assisted product lines. This role is focused on new product development engineering; you will work collaboratively with customers, quality, sourcing and advanced operations partners to perform customer research, technology research, design, test, and documenting electrical components, architectures, systems, and products.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Lead or mentor design and development of electrical components, sub-systems, and/or systems for medical devices.
• Apply and mentor others on advanced engineering theories, principles, and concepts.
• Conduct, design, and select advanced prototyping and testing.
• Lead and guide in correction of complex product design issues.
• Conduct technology exploration and influence application in the business.
• Translate user needs to design inputs/ specifications and produce complex system level designs independently.
• Develop invention disclosures, patents or trade secrets.
• Independently make design tradeoff decisions while designing multiple components of the system.
• Work with multiple technologies including voltage regulators, mixed analog/digital circuits, embedded microcontrollers/microprocessors, FPGA’s, motor controllers and sensors.
• Work with suppliers on PCB and EOL test fixture design, and production readiness.

Med Device Compliance:

• Mentor others as a business unit expert on the usage of industry standards, including design requirements and test strategies per applicable regulations.
• Lead others to create and refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file and create more progressive technical content.
• Contribute to R&D procedures and development of industry standards working closely with cross-functional business units.

General Responsibilities:

• Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success, both leading and influencing other leaders on the team.
• Identify and lead the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.
• Execute and lead segments of complex product development to advance projects through the design /development/launch process.
• Contribute to complex product development through release and lead one technical area of expertise.
• Hold self and others accountable to deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities.
• Mentor, develop and inspire others in current and future roles.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related
• 6+ years of work experience
• Ability to lead or teach electrical engineers in electrical design.
• Advanced understanding of the design of complex components and sub-systems.
• Ability to apply advanced circuit and electrical system test methods.
• Advanced understanding of manufacturing and testing methods.
• Ability to apply standard technologies used in industry.
• Ability to perform complex electrical stackups.
• Advanced understanding of statistical methods. 
• Advanced knowledge of sub-system, system, and environmental interactions.