Senior Design Engineer

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San Jose, CA, 94088, US
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Work flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite Req ID: R537426 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Engineering Travel: 10% Relocation: Yes

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Job description

As a Senior Design Engineer on our Endoscopy team, you will be asked to apply sound engineering practices while designing new products and technologies within our surgical visualization portfolio.  Staying close to our customers and collecting valuable insights into product performance and features will be critical to success. You will have an active role in everything from brainstorming new concepts to commercialization and manufacturing scale-up; design engineers anchor our New Product Development (NPD) team!  

To learn more about Stryker’s Endoscopy portfolio click here: Stryker Endoscopy

This is a hybrid role in San Jose, CA, with the expectation to come into the office 3 days a week. 

What You Will Do

  • Under minimal supervision, design, develop, modify, and verify mechanical components for medical devices.
  • Under minimal supervision, work with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management to ensure project success.
  • Translate design inputs to engineering specifications and produce sub-system-level designs.
  • Apply fundamental and some advanced concepts, practices, and procedures for problem-solving. Develop and analyze solutions, prototyping one or more options to provide proof of concept.
  • Demonstrate proficiency with the product’s intended use and clinical procedures. Demonstrate advanced understanding of customer needs and design inputs.
  • Follow fundamental industry standards, design requirements, and test strategies that apply to regulatory requirements.
  • Independently create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file
  • Follow R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.
  • Work on complex problems, applying advanced experience and learnings; while demonstrating ownership and prioritization of work with minimal supervision.

What you need

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, BioMedical, or related discipline.
  • 2+ years of work experience in mechanical design engineering.
  • Working knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering practices and design principles.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of design and concept generation CAD or CAE modeling tools (Creo preferred)
  • Knowledge of analysis tools (i.e. DFMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, FEA, Stack-ups, etc.) and statistical methods (i.e. leveraging Minitab for ANOVA, normality testing, confidence calculations, etc.).
  • Technical ability to create engineering drawings and models, applying GD&T and CAE tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes to product design.

$77,200 - $160,800 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. Apply Now
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