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Position Summary:

This position will research, design and develop Stryker’s next generation of medical devices. A Senior Design Engineer is responsible for researching surgical applications and unmet user needs and designing and developing the embedded software of medical devices to satisfy those user needs. They will interact with a broad cross-functional team to bring these designs through the new product development process and launch them in a highly regulated environment.

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Conduct or design prototyping and bench testing.

• Conduct problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements.

• Conduct research and studies to support product design.

• Translate design inputs to engineering specifications and produce component and sub-system level designs.

• Code development time/resource estimation to support projects.

• Design new components applying various design concepts.

• Generate and review the necessary documents with project teams (requirements, design, architecture, bugs, test).

Business Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate advanced understanding of customer needs and design inputs.

• Demonstrate proficiency with product’s intended use and clinical procedures.

• Learn how the financial models are constructed.

Med Device Compliance:

• Follow fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which apply to regulatory requirements.

• Independently create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file.

• Follow R&D procedure 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 key member of the team, collaborating with others and solidifying relationships.

• Quickly process and assimilate procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.

• Work on complex problems, applying advanced experience and learnings.

• Demonstrate ownership and prioritize work with minimal supervision.

• Build relationships and influence among peers.

• Lead code reviews for components in systems applying design principals, coding standards and best practices.

• Develop and design software components per requirements and architecture defined.

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline & 2+ years of work experience

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages:

• Exposure to programming skills in C and C++. Design new components applying various concepts design concepts and patterns.

• Design and Development Skills:·Experience with integrated development environments (IDE) for projects.

• Experience with software tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software.

Software Process Skills

• ·Experience in creating estimates for code implementation time/resource for assigned tasks.

• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle processes.

• ·Experience using Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability tools.

• ·Experience with regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

Preferred Skills / Engineering tools:

Understands the theory and methods of Embedded Software Development and can apply them under minimal supervision while demonstrating:

• Proficiency in designing, developing, coding, testing, debugging and maintenance of embedded software

• Ability to analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of the embedded system resources.

• Ability to prototype and bench test designs.

• Proficiency in writing device drivers from scratch or debugging/enhancing device drivers on an embedded processor.

• Expertise in problem solving, root cause analysis, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against requirements.

• Proficiency in conducting research and studies to support product design.

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.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.