Senior Staff Engineer, R&D

Overview

It\'s Time to Join Stryker! Why Join Stryker?

You will play a key role in advancing the reliability and performance of products trusted by hospitals worldwide.

Stryker’s Sage division designs and manufactures innovative medical products that help prevent infection and improve patient outcomes in hospitals around the world. As a Senior Staff Engineer in our Sustaining Engineering team, you’ll take technical ownership of existing product lines—driving improvements that enhance reliability, manufacturability, and cost efficiency. You’ll serve as a mentor and informal leader, guiding engineers through complex problem solving, leading root-cause investigations, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure continued success of our life-improving products.

What You Will Do

• You will lead sustaining engineering initiatives for multiple product families, resolving complex technical and manufacturing issues while improving product performance and cost efficiency.
• You will serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert, coaching engineers in advanced design principles, analysis techniques, and best practices for medical device development.
• You will translate user needs and business requirements into detailed engineering specifications and independently develop robust system-level design solutions.
• You will drive and oversee CAPA and non-conformance investigations, identifying root causes and implementing effective corrective actions.
• You will partner closely with suppliers and contract manufacturers to qualify alternate materials, manage component obsolescence, and improve production processes.
• You will lead creation and refinement of engineering documentation, including design history files, risk management records, and change control reports, ensuring full regulatory compliance.
• You will initiate and execute design-to-cost, process optimization, and technology advancement projects that deliver measurable business impact.
• You will collaborate across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, and Marketing to align on priorities, share insights, and deliver high-quality results.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, or related Engineering discipline required
• 6+ years of engineering experience, including mechanical or electromechanical product development or sustaining engineering required

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in developing and optimizing complex designs for mechanical or electro-mechanical assemblies using DFM/DFMEA principles
• Proficiency in CAD/CAE tools (SolidWorks, Creo) with advanced understanding of GD&T and tolerance analysis
• In-depth knowledge of materials, extrusion, textile, or disposable plastic manufacturing processes
• Proven ability to lead through influence, mentor others, and communicate complex technical concepts across cross-functional teams

Compensation and Benefits

• $110,600 - $182,200 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

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.