Principal Mechanical Engineer

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Flower Mound, TX, 75022, US
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Work flexiblity: Hybrid or Onsite Req ID: R534054 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Engineering Travel: 20% Relocation: Yes

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Job description

As a Principal Mechanical Engineer in R&D, you will lead the research, design, development, modification, and evaluation of surgical tables and similar devices, including industrial and medical robotics.

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You will need to live within commuting distance of our Flower Mound, TX office. You will need to be in the office three days per week.

What you will do:

  • Partner with customers, and internal and external key opinion leaders to develop technical strategies that meet clinical needs
  • Independent reviewer and advisor for the creation or refinement of engineering documentation, such as the Design History file
  • Lead and support complex product development for cross-functional teams, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise
  • Mentor, develop, and influence across the business, intentionally building divisional relationships
  • Designs, validates and brings new products to market.
  • Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
  • Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
  • Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
  •  Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.

What You Need:

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or BioMedical
  • Minimum 8 years of work experience in electromechanical systems or robotics in a highly regulated industry (medical, automotive, or aerospace)
  • Experience in motion systems (e.g. rotary/linear drives, bearings, gears, linkages, etc.), electric/hydraulic actuators, sensors, and motion controls. 
  • Experience in New Product Development
  • Experience in implementing design methodologies such as DFM, Reliability, Systems Design
  • Experience utilizing Solid Modeling and CAE tools to optimize product designs
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. Apply Now
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