Stryker is one of the worlds leading medical technology companies and is dedicated to helping healthcare professionals perform their jobs more efficiently while enhancing patient care. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies including reconstructive medical and surgical and neurotechnology and spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives.

We are currently seeking a Principal Design Engineer- Mechanical for our Interventional Spine IVS business unit within Stryker Instruments. This position will be located at our division headquarters in Portage Michigan.

As a Principal Engineer you will work with and lead team members from R&D Quality Manufacturing Regulatory Clinical Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success.

Learn more about our business here: Stryker IVS

What You Will Do:

• Lead and mentor technical teams in the research design development evaluation and correction of complex product architectures applying advanced engineering theories to translate user needs into system and platformlevel designs across the business.
• Assess and advance new technologies and capabilities (e.g. prototyping testing) while navigating the intellectual property landscape to support innovation filings and protection.
• Leverage deep industry and competitive landscape knowledge to partner with customers and internal/external key opinion leaders shaping technical strategies aligned with clinical and market needs.
• Lead and execute customerfacing initiatives (e.g. Voice of Customer customercentric design) while collaborating on financial and business modeling and supporting business reviews to validate technical approaches.
• Serve as a divisional subjectmatter expert in applying industry standards and regulations for medical device development ensuring best practices across programs.
• Act as an independent technical reviewer and advisor for engineering documentation (e.g. Design History Files) and lead the development and refinement of standards and regulatory approaches in collaboration with crossfunctional and crossbusiness partners.
• Lead crossfunctional collaboration across R&D Quality Manufacturing Regulatory Clinical Marketing and Project Management to drive complex product development influence multiple technical domains and ensure sustained design and process solutions.
• Develop improve and deploy tools processes systems and technologies while holding teams accountable for highquality execution mentoring talent and building strong divisional relationships aligned to business priorities.

What You Need

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering (Mechanical Biomedical or related discipline).
• Minimum 8 Years of Work Experience.
• Experience working in a regulated industry (Medical Devices Strongly Preferred)

Preferred qualifications

• Broad base of experience in implementing design methodologies such as DFM Reliability and Systems Design.
• High degree of experience in medical device design (or designing in a highly regulated industry) and ability to utilize Solid Modeling and CAE tools to optimize the design.
• In-depth knowledge of materials manufacturing and processing methods and technologies to support complex product development.
• Ability to communicate complex plans and technical information to team members within and across businesses.

$118000 - $196700 USD Annual