Sr. Staff R&D Engineer

Lead Innovation. Engineer the Future of Healthcare.

Join Stryker Peripheral Vascular as a Senior Staff R&D Engineer supporting the development of a next-generation mechanical thrombectomy device. Take technical ownership of complex structural mechanical design challenges, while remaining hands-on with design, prototyping, testing, and problem-solving. As a subject matter expert, you will guide critical technical decisions, mentor developing engineers, and collaborate across Research and Development (R&D), Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management. This role combines deep technical expertise with broader technical leadership while keeping you closely connected to hands-on medical device product development.

This role is onsite 5 days a week in Irvine, CA.

To learn about our Thrombectomy product, please click here - ClotTriever Thrombectomy System | Stryker

What you will do

• Lead the structural mechanical design, development, prototyping, testing, and technical evaluation of complex catheter-based medical device components and subsystems through design development, design freeze, verification, validation and design transfer.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for nitinol and metallic-alloy component development, including material behavior, processing, structural performance, fatigue, durability, and design optimization.
• Evaluate existing designs, test results, technical limitations, and new concepts to rapidly develop and iterate prototypes that meet component, subsystem, and overall device requirements.
• Develop complex mechanical designs and models using SolidWorks, engineering drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), computer-aided engineering (CAE) analysis, materials selection, and design for manufacturability (DFM) principles.
• Lead technical trade-off decisions, root-cause investigations, risk assessments, and design modifications through engineering analysis, hands-on prototyping and laboratory testing.
• Establish test methods and design verification strategies, including risk-based testing, statistical analysis, sample-size rationale, and technical documentation supporting medical device design controls.
• Partner across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management to integrate component designs into the overall device and address manufacturing requirements throughout development.
• Mentor engineers on advanced engineering principles, technical problem-solving, design controls, risk management, and medical device product-development practices.

What you will need

Required

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of professional engineering experience.
• Professional experience in structural mechanical design and development of components using nitinol, shape-memory materials, or comparable metallic alloys.
• Professional experience developing products within a regulated medical device environment, including design controls, risk management, and test-method development.

Preferred

• Experience developing nitinol-based components, including material behavior, processing, fatigue, durability, and structural performance.
• Experience developing catheter-based, stent, vascular, thrombectomy, structural heart, or other mechanically complex medical devices.
• Experience using SolidWorks, engineering drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), or computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools to develop and iterate complex mechanical designs.
• Experience progressing medical device products through design freeze, design verification, and design transfer, including design for manufacturability (DFM).

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. and not require employment-based sponsorship now or in the future.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• US15: $118,000 - $196,600 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.