The R&D Engineer supports the development of medical device products, including writing or verifying specifications, maintaining product process, designing fixtures, test processes and equipment and raw materials to ensure concepts and/or prototypes meet requirements.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Under supervision, design, develop, modify, and verify mechanical components for medical devices.

• Assist with prototyping and bench testing.

• Test prototypes to verify meet design requirements.

• Support problem solving, root cause analysis, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against requirements while maintaining traceability of components.

• Under supervision, conduct research and studies to support product design and process development.

• Under supervision, develop new test methods, fixtures, and inspection processes for evaluating prototypes.

• Aid with specification development and testing of new materials and designs.

• Ideate new design concepts and generate intellectual property.

• Preform statistical analysis and present findings.

• Contribute to Design Reviews.

Business Responsibilities:

• Basic understanding of customer needs and design inputs.

• Understand the product’s intended use and clinical procedures.

• Individual Design History File task ownership including testing and drawings.

Med Device Compliance:

• Understand fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which align with regulatory requirements.

• With supervision, create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file per company design control procedures.

• Learn R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.

General Responsibilities:

• With supervision, work with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success.

• Learn procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.

• Work on problems in limited scope; purposefully learn while gaining experience.

• Demonstrate ownership and integrity of work.

• Build stable relationships.

• Contribute to the project as a team member.

$83,400 - $139,000 USD Annual

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.

The future of healthcare starts with you. Customers, patients and employees are at the heart of everything we do at Stryker. As a world-leading medical technology company, we are focused on innovative healthcare solutions not just for today but for tomorrow. The future of healthcare starts with hiring the best talent and providing our employees with flexibility and opportunity to grow their careers in whatever direction their passions take them.