Senior Staff Product Engineer (HYBRID)

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Who We Want:

• Team players. Influential leaders who have a reputation for working well with others, including team members and leadership.
• Problem solvers. Strategic thinkers who can easily identify risks and are committed to improving processes and resolving challenges.
• Adaptable partners. Quick-thinking individuals who can rapidly adjust project scope as appropriate and develop recovery plans.
• Organized engineers. Detail-oriented achievers who excel by developing and maintaining project plans and schedules, often in collaboration with other teams.
• Dedicated achievers. Individuals with a strong work ethic and customer-focused attitude who bring value to every project they touch.
• Articulate communicators. Engineers whose strong verbal talents translate to positive business outcomes.
• Game changers. Go-getters who will stop at nothing to live out Stryker’s mission to make healthcare better.

What You Will Do:

 Lead Stryker engineering teams responsible for creating and implementing perfect, life-saving medical devices.

Product Engineers drive successful Stryker Medical device project execution of a cross-functional engineering team made up of technical, non-technical, and implementation associates in the planning, coordinating, monitoring, and execution of Stryker medical devices. The Product Engineer is a highly specialized individual contributor role that requires deep expertise from a professional / technical thought leader in their respective field or discipline. This position provides technical guidance and direction for the area of specialization as well as balancing the needs of multiple disciplines for the overall project objectives, timelines, and scope. The job requires good analytical skills as well as evaluative judgement based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations. 

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Lead a cross-functional Engineering, Test, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Compliance, Marketing and Project Management to ensure end to end project success including research, planning, development, testing, regulatory submittal, configuration management, manufacturing and service support.
• Proactive project planning including identify risks and contingency mitigation plans.
• Ensure projects are completed in accordance with the Stryker's quality system
• Establish strategy, tactics, and priorities, imparting a sense of urgency and importance to the team, while using project management tools and techniques to support Stryker business needs
• Lead project team to follow fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which apply to regulatory requirements
• Lead impact assessment of design changes using product and technical expertise
• Provide timely communication of complex plans and technical information to team members and concise project summaries to senior management and stakeholders.
• Work closely with Project Managers to drive successful project implementation
• Support capital acquisition activity from specifying equipment, contract negotiation, installation, and validation
• Hold self and others accountable to deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities.
• Collaborate and influence others on cross functional teams advancing partnerships to achieve business objectives
• Lead impact assessment of design changes using product expertise
• Performs other related duties as required.

What You Will Need:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (Software, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering) or equivalent required
• 6+ years of proven experience leading cross-functional teams to manage project objectives, timelines, and scope
• 3+ years applicable technical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of Science

Software experience including:

• Scrum/Agile methodology
• Software architecture and debug techniques
• Managing Software projects including software build, transition to test, & release
• Experience with medical device integration or equivalent highly regulated industry
• Experience working with cross-functional and outside design partners
• Knowledge and understanding of product development within a regulated quality system, including familiarity with ISO 13485, IEC60601-1 and other related medical device standards 

• $112k - $185k salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.