• Job Description

  Req#: R510019
  Work Flexibility: Hybrid

  Who We Want:

  • Dedicated achievers. Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
  • Curious learners. Engineers who seek out cutting-edge research and information to expand and enhance their ability to develop products.
  • Goal-oriented developers. Keeping the customer and system requirements squarely in focus, people who deliver safe and robust solutions. .
  • Motivated product launchers. Engineers who bring strategic direction and drive for execution to ensure products are developed and launched with precision.

  What You Will Do:

  As an R&D Software Engineer , you will lead research, design, and develop embedded software devices for use by Orthopaedic Surgeons to allow them to perform their procedures. You will be a key contributor to the software development process of embedded medical devices that support our Total Joint & Large Bone Power product lines.

  Technical Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design and development of software components in alignment with requirements and architecture defined.
  • Apply and mentor others on advanced engineering theories, principles, and concepts.
  • Conduct, design, and select advanced prototyping and testing.
  • Lead and guide in correction of complex product design issues.
  • Conduct technology exploration and influence application in the business.
  • Translate user needs to design inputs/ specifications and produce complex system level designs independently.
  • Develop a number of invention disclosures, patents or trade secrets.
  • Independently make design tradeoff decisions while designing multiple components of the system.
  • Ability to generate and review the necessary documents with project teams. (requirements/design/architecture/bugs/test).

  Business Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to competitive and market strategy by demonstrating in-depth knowledge of the market, customer dynamics and competitive offerings.
  • Apply strong understanding of clinical procedures to enhance product development.
  • Contribute to and execute customer facing activities like voice of customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Demonstrates financial acumen.

  Med Device Compliance:

  • Mentor others as a business unit expert on the usage of industry standards, including design requirements and test strategies per applicable regulations.
  • Lead others to create and refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file and creates more progressive technical content.
  • Contribute to R&D procedures and development of industry standards working closely with cross-functional business units.

  General Responsibilities:

  • Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success, both leading and influencing other leaders on the team.
  • Identify and lead the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.
  • Execute and lead segments of complex product development to advance projects through the design /development/launch process.
  • Contribute to complex product development through release and lead one technical area of expertise.
  • Hold self and others accountable to deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities.
  • Mentor, develop and inspire others in current and future roles.
  • Lead code reviews for systems applying design principals, coding standards and best practices

  What You Will Need:

  Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Software/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field is required.
  • 6+ years of experience with C/C++ in an embedded environment

  Preferred Qualifications:

  Technical Skills:

  Programming Languages:

  • Lead project software implementation using programming skills in VxWorks or similar Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS).

  Design and Development Skills:

  • Ability to lead strategies in integrated development environments (IDE) for projects.
  • Ability to lead strategies with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software.

  Software Process Skills:

  • Collaboratively influence the Software Development Life Cycle processes changes and best practices.
  • Collaboratively influence the Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability best practices and tools.
  • Collaboratively lead in creating estimates for code implementation time/resource for assigned tasks and projects.
  • Regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

  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 contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

• About the company

  Stryker Corporation is an American multinational medical technologies firm based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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