Senior Staff Engineer - Mechanical R&D

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Stryker's Sports Medicine business delivers a wide range of innovative sports medicine solutions - from implants and biologic products for soft tissue repair and healing, to pre-operative surgical planning software and surgical tools for accurate soft tissue and boney resection - our focus is on minimally invasive and open approaches to the shoulder, knee, hip, and small joints.

Know more about the Sports Medicine team here: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/sports-medicine.html

As a Sr. Staff Design Engineer, you will be an integral part of the design team and NPD process. Under minimal supervision, you will serve as a technical lead with a cross functional team to design, evaluate, iterate and bring innovative new products to market for the Sports Medicine business. This role will be responsible for strategically partnering with cross functional teams and suppliers to create new disposable instrumentation, enhance current anchor platforms, and build out sustainable processes for kitting of products.

**Who we Want:**

**Achievers:** Goal-oriented engineers who are committed to the project objectives and will work aggressively to launch new, winning technologies to the market that help change patients' lives.

**Motivated product launchers** : Engineers who bring strategic direction and drive for execution to ensure products are developed and launched with precision.

**Challengers & Influencers** **:** People who constantly challenge themselves and each other to achieve more & to win the right way.

**Teammates** **:** Partners who listen to ideas, share thoughts, challenge ideas, and work together to improve their team.

**Analytical problem solvers:** People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and implement hard-to-find solutions to improve outcomes for patients.

**Curious learners:** Engineers who seek out cutting-edge research and information to expand and enhance their ability to develop the next generation of solutions.

**What You Will Do**

**_Technical Responsibilities:_**

+ Independently research, design, develop, modify, and verify components, modules, and sub-systems for medical devices.

+ Translate user needs to design inputs/ specifications and produce complex system-level designs with some guidance.

+ Strong clinical understanding of device needs and user experience

+ Conduct or design advanced prototyping and testing.

+ Analyze and correct complex product design issues using independent judgment.

+ Select components and equipment based on analysis of specification, reliability, and regulatory requirements.

+ Lead the development process by ensuring designs are cost-efficient, manufacturable, and reliable.

+ Analyze and correct complex product design issues using independent judgment.

+ Proactively drive positive outcomes to technical, business, and resource problems.

+ Leverage strong listening skills and written/verbal communication to influence and convey business, regulatory compliance, and/or technical ideas to customers, employees, peers, external partners, and senior leaders.

+ Oversee product testing for design verification, design validation, shelf life, engineering studies, and equivalency.

**_Business Responsibilities:_**

+ Advance solutions by applying in-depth knowledge of customer needs, market, and competitive offerings.

+ Own setting the technical project strategy and communicate appropriately to other project team members.

+ Apply a strong understanding of clinical procedures to author design inputs while enhancing product development and patient outcomes.

+ Support Voice of Customer sessions internally and with clinicians.

+ Assist in evaluating vendor capability to support product development.

+ Communicate complex plans and technical information to team members, leaders, and project managers.

**_Med Device Compliance:_**

+ Be proficient with and mentor others in the 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.

+ Mentor others on R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.

+ Hold yourself and others accountable to deliver high-quality results with passion, energy, and drive to meet business priorities.

**_General Responsibilities:_**

+ Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management to ensure project success.

+ Identify and support the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology.

+ Support and execute segments of complex multifunctional teams to advance projects through the design /development/launch process.

+ Deliver high-quality results with passion, energy, and drive to meet business priorities.

+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build partnerships to achieve business objectives.

+ Mentor, develop, and inspire others in current and future roles.

**What you will need**

**_Minimum Qualifications(Must Have):_**

+ Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related discipline

+ Minimum 6+ years of work experience

+ Strong technical background in injection molding, machining, and sterile packaging.

**_Preferred Skills / Engineering tools:_**

+ Experience leading technical projects in the medical device industry

+ Advanced degree in relevant area

+ Strong technical ability with SolidWorks

+ Experience in applying FEA (e.g. ANSYS) to improve designs and reduce prototype costs and time

+ Thorough understanding of sports medicine-related physiology, anatomy, and associated procedures

+ Proficient in project management (e.g. project scoping, task management, defining deliverables)

+ Product design for injection molding

+ Experience with the design of metal components with tight tolerancing

+ Experience with sterile packaging and kitting

**_Certifications:_**

+ GD&T Certification

**_Technical Skills:_**

+ Strong technical ability to develop and optimize designs for mechanical assemblies incorporating DFM principles.

+ Strong technical ability in creating engineering drawings, and models, and applying GD&T and CAE tools.

+ Adept at applying knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes to product design.

+ Ability to communicate moderate complexity plans and technical information to team members.

+ Demonstrated ability to lead small project teams and drive results through others.

+ Strong communication skills to partner with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and senior leadership.

$98,000 - $210,100 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location. 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.

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.