Senior Electrical Design Engineer, R&D

Stryker Surgical Technologies is looking for a Senior Electrical Design Engineer to join our R&D team. This role goes beyond engineering—it’s about collaboration, leadership, and driving innovation. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, translating user needs into precise design specifications, influencing clinical outcomes, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. With the opportunity to engage directly with clinicians and stakeholders, you’ll bring products from concept to market, addressing real-world challenges and making a measurable difference in patients' lives.

This role is hybrid based in Portage, MI, with the expectation to come into the office 3-4 days a week.

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What You Will Do:

• Design and develop schematics and PCB layouts for electronic circuit boards in medical devices, ensuring alignment with system requirements.
• Develop, review, and execute electrical system tests using advanced equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers) to validate performance and reliability.
• Identify and evaluate solutions to complex product design challenges, balancing tradeoffs at the component and sub-system levels.
• Development, creation, and refinement of technical documentation, including schematics, design descriptions, stack‑up calculations, and manufacturing test specifications.
• Interface with manufacturers to define and implement manufacturing test specifications for scalable production.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management to drive project success.
• Build relationships and influence across engineering teams, fostering collaboration and technical excellence.
• Deliver high‑quality results with passion, energy, and a strong commitment to meeting business priorities such as process improvements, technology advancements, and product development from concept to launch.

What You Need

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 2+ years of work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced understanding of electrical components and manufacturing methods, including common failure modes.
• Experience in interpreting and analyzing system drawings with basic Mechanical/Software/Electrical Interactions.
• Ability to interpret, analyze, and test electrical designs.
• Working knowledge of the electrical design process.
• Proficiency in the use of CAD and/or other circuit design and analysis tools to design.
• Knowledge of standard technologies used in industry.

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.