Principal Engineer

Why engineering at Stryker?

At Stryker we are dedicated to improving lives, with a passion for researching and developing new medical device products. As an engineer at Stryker, you will be proud of the work that you will be doing, using cutting-edge technologies to make healthcare better. Here, you will work in a supportive culture with other incredibly talented and intelligent people, creating industry-leading medical technology products. You will also have growth opportunities as we have a culture that supports your personal and professional development.

Need another reason to apply? Check out these 8 reasons to join Stryker's engineering team: https://www.strykercareersblog.com/post/8-reasons-to-join-strykers-engineering-team

Technical Responsibilities:

• Lead or mentor technical team in design and development of components, sub-systems, and/or systems for

medical devices.

• Apply and mentor others on advanced engineering theories, principles, and concepts across various

products within business unit.

• Assess and integrate new technologies and capabilities (prototyping, testing, et.al.) for the organization.

• Mentor and influence in correction of complex product design issues.

• Navigate and influence the Intellectual landscape for filings and protection.

• Translate user needs to design inputs/ specifications and produce system/architectural level layouts and

platform designs.

• Develop and influence a number of invention disclosures, patents or trade secrets.

• Lead architecture of a complex system and guide design tradeoff decisions.

• Generate and review the necessary documents with project teams.

(requirements/design/architecture/bugs/test).

• Additional role-specific technical areas of responsibilities may be added as deemed necessary by the local

hiring manager.

Business Responsibilities:

• Possess an in-depth knowledge of the industry and competitive landscape.

• Partner with customers, internal and external key opinion leaders to develop technical strategies that meet

clinical needs.

• Strategize and execute customer-facing activities like voice of customer and customer centric design across

the business.

• Collaborate on financial /business modeling and support business reviews to validate a technical approach.

Med Device Compliance:

• Divisional expert with extensive experience applying industry standards in device development.

• Act as independent reviewer and advisor for the creation or refinement of engineering documentation,

such as the Design History file.

• Lead the development of standards and regulations, working closely with functions within and across

business.

General Responsibilities:

• Lead cooperative efforts with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success.

Lead and support team members to create or improve procedures, policies, processes, systems, and

technology requirements.

• Develop and utilize tools to enhance the company's product/process development or performance.

• Mentor and grow technical talent within discipline/function.

• Lead and support complex product development for cross functional teams, influencing multiple technical

areas of expertise.

• Hold team accountable to deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business

priorities.

• Mentor, develop and influence across the business, intentionally building divisional relationships.

• Identify and implement design and process solutions and ensure they are sustained over time.

• Lead code reviews for projects/systems as independent reviewer applying design principals, coding

standards and best practices.

• Collaboratively review and update coding standards.

Programming Languages:

• Lead system software implementation using programming skills in .Net, C#, Django or Flask

Strong understanding of OOP concepts and design patterns

Expertise with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, and HTML

Experience building single page applications (SPA) and progressive web apps (PWA)

Strong understanding of web and browser technologies

Experience building RESTful web services using Web API

Extensive experience with Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle or mySQL and writing SQL queries

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or 6+ years of web development experience.

Experience with Azure and AWS

Experience in JQUERY, JSON

Extensive experience in open source frameworks

Design new components applying various concepts design concepts and patterns.

Big Data Cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS

Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure Devops, Docker

Experience creating conceptual and logical database models

Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs

Experience developing and deploying services to Azure

Design and Development Skills:

• Collaboratively lead strategies for integrated development environments (IDE) structures for projects.

• Collaboratively lead strategies with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage

and techniques for analyzing software.

Provide guidelines and development standards for engineers in design, development and testing.

Review existing architecture, code and build roadmap of future architecture

• Collaborate with engineers and DevOps to lead and implement strategies for integration and deployment processes using either Docker or Kubernetes or Jenkins

Software Process Skills:

• Lead the adoption of Software Development Life Cycle process changes and best practices. Provide

strategic planning and guidance for project based SDLC decisions.

• Lead the adoption of Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability best practices and tools.

Expertise in Agile / Scrum

• Lead teams in creating estimates for code implementation including time/resources for projects.

• Regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

Establish standards and process for design reviews, code reviews

Preferred Skills / Engineering tools:

Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale

Updating production enterprise critical software

Databases such as Snowflake

Experience overall with experience as a software architect

Experience solving for scalability, Performance and stability

Expertise in enterprise metrics/monitoring with frameworks such as Splunk

About Stryker
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 stryker.com.