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Staff Clinical Safety Specialist

Stryker


Job Location:

Irvine, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 124400 - 207400
Posted: 31 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 28 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Work Flexibility: Remote

Staff Clinical Safety Specialist - Remote

As a Staff Clinical Safety Specialist you will serve as a clinical safety subject matter expert across multiple studies leading safety event review adjudication reporting and process oversight while partnering with cross-functional teams to support consistent and compliant clinical study execution.

This role combines clinical safety expertise regulatory knowledge and operational leadership to ensure accurate assessment documentation coding and reporting of clinical safety events across a global study portfolio.

Work Flexibility:

  • Remote

What You Will Do

  • Lead clinical safety oversight activities across assigned studies including identification assessment adjudication and reporting of adverse events and other safety-related events.
  • Review and evaluate adverse events serious adverse events protocol-defined endpoints and other safety signals to ensure accurate and timely documentation and escalation.
  • Author and review clinical event narratives ensuring completeness consistency scientific accuracy and regulatory compliance.
  • Partner with Clinical Operations Medical Affairs Data Management Biostatistics Regulatory Affairs and Quality teams to support timely safety event review reporting and resolution.
  • Coordinate with clinical sites contract research organizations field monitors medical monitors and adjudication committees to obtain and reconcile source documentation required for safety assessments.
  • Perform and oversee clinical safety event coding activities using established coding standards and conventions to maintain data quality and consistency.
  • Present safety findings event summaries adjudication outcomes and emerging trends during safety review meetings and governance forums.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance safety processes inspection readiness data quality compliance and operational efficiency across studies.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Life Sciences Nursing Pharmacy Public Health or a related discipline.
  • Minimum 4 years of experience in clinical research clinical safety pharmacovigilance medical device vigilance or a related field.
  • Working knowledge of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations ISO 14155 International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines and Medical Device Reporting requirements.
  • Experience assessing and documenting adverse events serious adverse events and other clinical safety events within regulated clinical studies.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in Life Sciences Nursing Pharmacy Public Health Medicine or a related scientific discipline.
  • Experience supporting clinical event adjudication committees data safety monitoring boards or medical monitoring activities.
  • Experience with Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) coding and clinical safety databases.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

  • USN: $95700 - $159500 USD Annual
  • US5: $100500 - $167500 USD Annual
  • US10: $105300 - $175500 USD Annual
  • US15: $110100 - $183400 USD Annual
  • US20: $114800 - $191400 USD Annual
  • US30: $124400 - $207400 USD Annual
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Travel Percentage: 10%

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.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information.


Required Experience:

Staff IC


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