Senior Staff R&D Engineer - Systems

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Waltham, MA, USA
In-Office
123K-205K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech • Other • Robotics • Biotech • Manufacturing
Together with our customers, we're on a mission to make healthcare better.
The Role
Provides system-level technical leadership for commercial medical devices across commercialization and sustaining engineering. Leads requirements, architecture, risk management, reliability assessments, integration, verification testing, and complex product issue investigations. Partners with engineering, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, service, and operations teams to maintain safe, reliable, compliant products. Mentors engineers and guides systems engineering practices, design controls, and industry standards.
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Work Flexibility: Onsite

Join Stryker’s Amplitude Vascular Systems (AVS) team in Waltham, Massachusetts as a Senior Staff R&D Engineer. In this role, you will provide system-level technical leadership throughout the lifecycle of medical devices, with a focus on commercialization and sustaining engineering, investigate complex product issues, and partner across engineering, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, service, and operations functions to help ensure products remain safe, reliable, compliant, and available to customers.


This role offers a unique opportunity to support a newly integrated business as it advances toward commercialization.


What You Will Do

  • Lead system-level engineering activities for commercial medical devices, including design changes, product evaluations, and lifecycle management.
  • Lead reliability assessments and analysis to understand product performance, failure modes, and opportunities to improve product reliability and longevity.
  • Investigate product performance issues using field, service, manufacturing, reliability, and complaint data to identify root causes and improvement opportunities.
  • Define, maintain, and refine system requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical documentation.
  • Allocate and decompose system requirements across electrical, mechanical, and software subsystems.
  • Lead risk management activities, including hazard identification, risk analysis, mitigation planning, and verification of safety requirements.
  • Lead and support system integration, reliability, regression, and verification testing associated with product changes.
  • Drive resolution of complex design, manufacturing, and service-related technical issues through structured engineering analysis.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on systems engineering methods, design controls, industry standards, and engineering best practices.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
  • Minimum 6 years of engineering experience in a regulated industry.
  • Experience supporting product development, system integration, design changes, or product lifecycle activities.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of experience supporting medical devices in a post-commercialization environment.
  • Strong mechanical engineering foundation with experience working across multidisciplinary systems, including exposure to electrical and/or software components.
  • Experience with requirements management tools, including Jama.
  • Experience with SysML and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methodologies and tools.
  • Knowledge of ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601-1, and medical device design control requirements.
  • Experience with reliability engineering, fault tree analysis, FMEA, statistical analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies.

  


US20: $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual

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Travel Percentage: 20%

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 contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
  • Minimum 6 years of engineering experience in a regulated industry
  • Experience supporting product development, system integration, design changes, or product lifecycle activities
  • Minimum 5 years of experience supporting medical devices in a post-commercialization environment
  • Strong mechanical engineering foundation with multidisciplinary systems experience and exposure to electrical and/or software components
  • Experience with requirements management tools, including Jama
  • Experience with SysML and model-based systems engineering methodologies and tools
  • Knowledge of ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601-1, and medical device design control requirements
  • Experience with reliability engineering, fault tree analysis, FMEA, statistical analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies

Stryker Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stryker and has not been reviewed or approved by Stryker.

  • Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options with HSA support and global mental‑health access indicate broad, accessible care. These features materially enhance the overall value of the total‑rewards package.
  • Retirement Support — A meaningful 401(k) company match with potential additional company contribution, alongside an ESPP, supports long‑term savings and wealth building. Documented plan specifics help employees understand eligibility, timing, and vesting mechanics.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and practical supports like breast milk shipping reflect a comprehensive, family‑friendly approach. These offerings address varied family‑building paths and caregiving needs.

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The Company
HQ: Portage, MI
51,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1941

What We Do

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com. Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.

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