Senior Test Engineer

Stryker Sage is seeking a highly skilled Test Engineering professional to support the design, development, and validation of innovative medical products. This role plays a critical part in ensuring product reliability, durability, and performance through advanced test systems and fixtures, while also serving as a technical leader within the organization.

This role is hybrid in Cary, IL with the expectation to be in office 3 days a week.

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What you will do:

• Design, develop, and refine mechanical, electrical, and virtual test fixtures for components and sub-systems, ensuring designs meet functional requirements, design inputs, and reliability targets.

• Able to leverage laboratory capabilities, including hardware configurations, software integration, and data acquisition systems.

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans in collaboration with quality, design, and advanced test engineering teams to assess durability, fatigue life, and product reliability.

• Lead the development of test systems and fixtures that support product development, validation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Analyze test data, investigate failures, and lead root-cause analysis efforts, delivering clear, actionable insights through formal test reports aligned with company standards.

• Provide mentorship to junior test team members, technicians, third-party labs, and contractors, acting as a trusted subject matter expert.

• Evaluate, recommend, procure, and maintain actuation systems, instrumentation, sensors, and testing technologies to advance testing methods and capabilities.

• Act as an internal point of contact on test methods, industry standards, and reliability tools, including statistical analysis, design of experiments, Weibull analysis, stress and strain analysis, FEA, and use, misuse, and abuse testing.

What you need:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline

• 2+ years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Test system automation experience

• Medical device or regulated industry experience

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.