Staff Engineer

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Conduct or design advanced prototyping and testing
• Conduct advanced problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements
• Conduct and design research and studies to support advanced product design
• Translate user needs to design inputs/specifications and produce advanced component and sub-system level designs
• Analyze and correct complex product design issues, using independent judgment
• Independently balance design tradeoffs while designing a component of the system
• Develop and design software systems per requirements and architecture defined
• Code development time/resource estimation to support projects
• Generate and review the necessary documents to support the project. (requirements/design/architecture/bugs/test)
  
  

Business Responsibilities:

• Advance solutions by applying in-depth knowledge of customer needs, market and competitive offerings
• Apply detailed knowledge of clinical procedures to author design inputs
• Support Voice of Customer sessions internally and with clinicians
• Demonstrate developing financial acumen
  
  

Med Device Compliance:

• Be proficient with and mentor others in usage of industry standards, including design requirements and test strategies per applicable regulations
• Lead creation and refinement of engineering documentation, such as the Design History file
• Follow and mentor others on R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System
  
  

General Responsibilities:

• Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success as a leader on the team
• Identify and support the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology
• Support and execute segments of complex product development to advance projects through the design /development/launch process
• Contribute to product development from concept through release
• Deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities
• Build relationships and influence across the engineering groups within the business
• Design, develop, modify, evaluate and verify software components for medical devices
• In code reviews apply design principals, coding standards and best practices
  
  

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline & 4+ years of work experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

Technical Skills:

• Knowledgeable programming skills. Design new components applying various concepts design concepts and patterns
  
  

Design and Development Skills:

• Knowledgeable with integrated development environments (IDE) for projects
• Knowledgeable with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software
• Knowledge in integration and deployment processes
  
  

Software Process Skills:

• Software Development Life Cycle processes
• Knowledge in creating estimates for code implementation time/resource for assigned tasks and projects
• Knowledge from using Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability tools.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
  
  

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.