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This position serves as the technical authority for FPGA architecture, hardware/software co-design, and embedded platform development while ensuring alignment among stakeholder needs, system architecture, regulatory requirements, and product implementation.\nThe role provides technical leadership across multiple product development programs and collaborates closely with Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Manufacturing, Product Management, and Project Management teams. The role ensures traceability from stakeholder needs through software requirements, implementation, verification, and risk control activities in accordance with design controls and the software development lifecycle.\nWhat You Will Do\nLead the architecture, design, implementation, integration, and verification of complex FPGA-based and embedded software systems for medical devices, including SoC and stand-alone FPGA architectures.\nDrive hardware/software partitioning, system-level architecture, and technical tradeoff decisions, translating user and system needs into software, FPGA, and subsystem design requirements. \nEstablish FPGA development and verification best practices, including coding standards, reusable test frameworks, self-checking testbenches, automated regression, coverage-driven verification, scripted workflows, automated builds, and Continuous Integration.\nPartner with Test Leads on establishing verification best practices, reusable test frameworks, self-checking test benches, and automated regression. \nLead complex FPGA design activities involving timing constraints, multiple clock domains, high-performance data paths, fixed-point arithmetic, real-time control, signal processing, and hardware/software interfaces. \nServe as a technical authority across development programs, leading architecture/design reviews, resolving complex technical issues, exploring emerging technologies, and developing reusable technology roadmaps.\nEnsure compliance with medical-device design controls, software lifecycle processes, risk management, traceability, and applicable regulatory standards, supporting regulatory submissions, audits, and QMS deliverables. \nLead the development and review of requirements, architecture, design, verification, risk management, and Design History File documentation, while coaching engineers on testable requirements, maintainability, and design for safety. \nProvide cross-functional technical leadership from concept through commercialization, partnering with Systems, Electrical, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Manufacturing, Product Management, and Project Management while mentoring engineers and incorporating customer and business needs into product development. \nWhat You Need (Required Qualifications)\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related engineering discipline and 8+ years of relevant embedded software experience. \nExperience developing embedded software and FPGA-based systems, including FPGA design, implementation, integration, and/or verification. \nExperience with FPGA development languages and technologies, such as VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, SoC FPGA, or comparable FPGA platforms. \nExperience leading or contributing to complex embedded product development, including architecture, requirements, system integration, and verification. \nExperience developing embedded software and FPGA-based systems, including programming in C/C++ and FPGA design, implementation, integration, and/or verification. \nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster’s degree preferred in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. \nExperience with FPGA development tools and platforms, including AMD/Xilinx Vivado and/or Intel Quartus. \nExperience with embedded Linux and/or RTOS development, hardware/software co-design, and FPGA-based digital signal processing. \nKnowledge of FPGA and embedded software verification, including simulation, static/dynamic analysis, coverage analysis, Git, automated builds, and CI/CD. \nExperience with medical device or regulated product development, including requirements traceability, risk management, and standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 14971, and ISO 13485. \n$135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual\nTravel Percentage: 20%Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. 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