Senior Principal Engineer Robotics

What you will do:

Sr. Principal Engineer responsible for end-to-end embedded platforms (Embedded Software (Mako 5 platform), Embedded OS Lifecycle Management and product security). Operates at the intersection of architecture, development, and security, driving platform lifecycle strategy, technical excellence, and security-by-design across products.

• Partner with other platform and software architects to develop platform tech block/modules.
• Platform Ownership: Define and partner with architects to architecture modules for M5 embedded software, OS Lifecycle Management (Flex OS), and security platforms across product lines.
• Technical Leadership: Provide deep expertise in embedded systems, Linux/OS internals, product security and systems architecture.
• Security Integration: Embed security-by-design (threat modeling, secure design, validation) into the full SDLC and post-market product security activities.
• Cross-Team Influence: Drive standards, frameworks, and architecture decisions across multiple teams and platforms
• Strategic Initiatives: Lead initiatives on platform hardening, shift-left security, quality improvement, and release acceleration
  
  

What you need:

• Influence early-stage architecture decisions across products
• Improve first-pass quality and reduce vulnerabilities/rework
• Enable faster, predictable releases via proactive design
• Act as a technical authority across embedded, OS, and security domains
• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams
  
  

 

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ Years of work experience with an Engineering background
• Strong experience in Embedded software and system architecture, Linux / OS internals
• Product and platform security (secure design, hardening)
• Hands-on expertise in:
• Vulnerability assessment, penetration testing
• OSS security and compliance management
• Post-market product security activities management
• Proven ability to Lead platform-level / multi-product initiatives
• Influence cross-functional teams
• Drive end-to-end ownership (design → delivery)
  
  

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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.