Product Safety Engineer

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  • Portage, MI 49002, United States
  • Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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Work flexibility: Hybrid Req ID: R569027 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Engineering Travel: Relocation: Yes

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Job description

Stryker is seeking an early-career Product Safety Engineer who is passionate about developing safe, high-quality medical devices, enjoys solving technical problems while collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role offers an opportunity to build expertise in product safety during medical device development.


What You Will Do:

  • Work with Research and Development (R&D) teams to define and implement a product safety program plans for large, complex development programs for the Product Engineering business unit within Stryker Instruments.​

  • Creates product safety test plans and ensures that the plans can be completed and meet the needs of 3rd party certifier’s requirements with respect to our internal product safety testing.

  • Apply advanced circuit and electrical system test methods

  • 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

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

What You Need (Required Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree in EE or related discipline and 0+ years of work experience


Preferred Qualifications (Strongly Desired):

  • Working knowledge of electrical design process, electrical components, and manufacturing methods

  • Ability to interpret, analyze, and test electrical designs

  • Proficiency with design and concept generation CAD, CAE, or simulation tools

  • Ability to apply analysis tools and statistical methods

  • Knowledge of system components and associated requirements

  • Understanding of the system lifecycle and effects of design choices on the system

  • IEC 60601-1 (Medical Electrical Equipment Safety)

  • IEC 60601-1-2 (Electromagnetic Compatibility)

  • IEC 60529 (Ingress Protection)

  • IEC 61000 Series (EMC Testing)

  • IEC 61010-1

  • ISO 17025 laboratory requirements

  • Product safety certification processes and third-party testing organizations (NRTLs)


$69,500 - $110,900 USD Annual

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. Click here to learn more about: US Stryker employee benefits

Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics 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.

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