Work Flexibility: Onsite Stryker is seeking a Staff Advanced Manufacturing, Automation/Software Engineer to join our Advanced Operations team, supporting the Medical Division - Acute Care Business Unit. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced automation and production test systems for new product introductions. This role is critical to ensuring reliable, scalable, and compliant manufacturing for patient support and patient environment products. You will serve as both a technical owner and a supplier-facing leader, architecting systems internally while guiding external partners to deliver high‑quality automation solutions. You will have the opportunity to work on the design transfer of new products from research through development and into production. This is a hybrid role based out of Portage, MI. The team works onsite 4-5 days per week to support collaboration and project needs. What you will do: Automation System Architecture & Development Lead the full lifecycle of industrial automation and test systems from requirements, architecture, and design through implementation, validation, and release. Define system-level requirements encompassing mechanical, electrical, software, controls, and safety considerations. Develop and integrate control software, embedded interfaces, test sequences, and operator interfaces (HMI/SCADA). Ensure robust performance, maintainability, reliability, and alignment with design intent and manufacturing needs. Troubleshoot complex processes, software, and equipment issues; optimize system performance and uptime. Supplier & Equipment Vendor Leadership Manage automation and equipment suppliers, including capability assessments, technical reviews, process monitoring, and on‑site visits. Create clear, comprehensive
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Stryker is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer, Robotics to lead systems engineering activities for critical electromechanical components within a complex robotic medical platform.
In this role, you will serve as a systems engineering owner for robotic end effectors, including powered surgical tools and future attachments that interface directly with the robotic system. You will help translate user and clinical needs into system architecture and requirements, define interfaces across electrical, mechanical, and software disciplines, and guide the product from requirements development through integration and verification.
This role requires a highly collaborative engineer who can bring together input from multiple technical disciplines and maintain a system-level view throughout development.
What You Will Do
Systems Engineering
- Own systems engineering activities for robotic end effectors and related electromechanical subsystems.
- Translate user, clinical, and product needs into clear, verifiable system requirements and design inputs.
- Develop and refine system architectures, interfaces, and functional requirements across electrical, mechanical, software, and controls disciplines.
- Allocate and decompose system requirements to appropriate subsystems and engineering disciplines.
- Lead technical trade studies, design assessments, performance analyses, and other systems engineering activities used to guide design decisions.
- Support concept development and architecture definition for new end effectors, features, and product capabilities.
Requirements, Integration, and Verification
- Establish and maintain requirements traceability throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Develop system-level verification strategies and ensure requirements can be objectively verified.
- Lead system integration activities across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Investigate and help resolve complex system-level design and integration issues.
- Lead or support system verification and validation activities as development progresses.
- Contribute to product risk management and ensure appropriate linkage between risks, requirements, mitigations, and verification evidence.
- Create and maintain engineering documentation supporting the Design History File.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Collaborate with Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Systems, Clinical, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders to ensure successful system development.
- Support Voice of Customer activities and translate clinical workflows and customer needs into actionable engineering inputs.
- Mentor engineers in systems engineering, requirements development, design controls, risk management, and verification practices.
- Identify and implement improvements to systems engineering processes, tools, and practices.
What You Will Need
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 4+ years of applicable engineering experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing or managing system requirements for complex products.
- Experience working across multiple engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, software, systems, or test.
- Experience developing medical devices or other complex regulated products.
- Experience with systems architecture, requirements development, decomposition, interface definition, integration, and verification.
- Experience translating user or customer needs into system-level design inputs and requirements.
- Experience developing verification strategies and supporting system integration and testing.
- Experience with robotic systems, powered surgical tools, power tools, or other precision electromechanical products.
- Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama, IBM DOORS, or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of ISO 13485, ISO 14971, design controls, and medical device development practices.
- INCOSE CSEP certification or equivalent systems engineering certification.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence across technical disciplines.
- $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
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.
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What You Will Need Minimum Qualifications Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline; INCOSE CSEP certification or equivalent systems engineering certification; 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
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