{"id":3739534,"url":"https://alion.io/job/stryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd","title":"Staff Scientist, Clinical Sciences (m/f/d)","company":{"id":2579,"name":"Stryker","domain":"stryker.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/stryker","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":131,"ghost_share":0.008,"stale_share":0.588,"repost_share":0.023,"time_to_fill_p50_days":34,"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Science & Research","role_family":"Science & Research","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany"],"countries":["DE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":4760,"max":7965,"currency":"EUR","period":"month","gross":null,"usd_annual":107028},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Design Controls","optional":false},{"name":"ISO 10993","optional":false},{"name":"GMP","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":true},{"name":"Sterilization Validation","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T11:24:36Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T09:52:38Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Work Flexibility: Hybrid or OnsiteJob Description\n***3 year fixed term contract***\nPosition Summary:\nThe Staff Scientist will be responsible for providing technical support to various areas of the business including biocompatibility, cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization of reusable and single use medical devices.\nTechnical Responsibilities:\nIndependently develop compliant testing protocols and guidelines and support regulatory submissions for new product development and product changes of both terminally sterilized and reusable medical devices.\nIndependently coordinate and complete project deliverables in collaboration with cross functional groups such as R&D, Global Quality Operations (GQO), Regulatory, and Marketing.\nInterpret, assess, analyze and apply international standards related to sterilization, cleaning, disinfection and biocompatibility. Mentor others.\nSupport technical problems of significant scope and complexity; independently determine and develop approach to solutions. This may include support for quality issues such as customer complaints, adverse events, product field actions, and non-conformances.\nPerform gap assessments to new or changing standards and mentor others.\nLead the development or revision of quality system procedures for Clinical Sciences. This may include serving as a divisional process owner (DPO).\nSupport internal and external regulatory audits as an SME.\nParticipate in Corporate wide projects or initiatives; this may include Corporate quality system workgroups.\nSupport Regulatory Affairs in interactions with FDA or Competent Authorities on topics pertaining to Clinical Sciences\nTrain, provide direction and technical support to junior team members\nSupport internal and external customer inquiries\nBusiness Responsibilities:\nAdvance solutions by applying in-depth knowledge of customer needs, design inputs and technical areas of responsibility.\nApply detailed knowledge of with product’s intended use, clinical procedures, and manufacturing process.\nDemonstrate developing financial acumen. Apply knowledge of how test strategies impact development timelines and cost. \nApply awareness of cultural differences that may exist in business practices in global interactions and mentor others.\nMed Device Compliance:\nBe proficient with and mentor others in usage of industry standards, including validation requirements and test strategies per applicable regulations.\nLead creation and refinement of documentation, such as sterilization evaluations, biocompatibility evaluations, and reusable device processing evaluations, per company design control procedures.\nFollow and mentor others on procedures like terminal sterilization, biocompatibility evaluation, and reusable device processing, per the Quality Management System.\nThe role may include support of national and/or international standards committees and workgroups.\nGeneral Responsibilities:\nWork cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success.\nIdentify and support the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology.\nSupport and execute complex projects on multifunctional teams to advance projects through the design /development/launch process.\nDeliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to build partnership to achieve business objectives.\nDemonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills with ability to effectively communicate and lead through influence\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: What you will need (strongly desired):\nTechnical Skills:\nIn depth technical knowledge and understanding of FDA, GMP, ISO, and other medical device regulatory requirements.\nAdept at applying knowledge of cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization validation principles, testing concepts, standards, and practices within a regulated environment.\nStrong technical expertise with multiple sterilization modalities (e.g, irradiation, ethylene oxide, vaporized hydrogen peroxide, moist heat)\nAdept at applying knowledge of biocompatibility requirements, test methods, and practices within a regulated environment.\nAdept at applying knowledge of environmentally controlled area qualification principles and monitoring requirements, standards, and practices within a regulated environment.\nAbility to communicate moderate complexity plans and technical information to team members.\nStrong technical ability to read and Interpret standards and regulations.\nStrong technical ability to analyze and interpret laboratory and validation test results and to resolve test failures.\nWorking knowledge of business applications such as Microsoft Office.\nSkills:\nExercise discretion and independence when applying professional expertise.\nMust be able to manage time, projects, stress and conflict.\nMust possess strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication.\nMust be able to bring tasks through to completion with minimal supervision.\nMust have the ability to prioritize work and keep detailed and confidential records.\nMust be able to communicate / present to large groups of people.\nCertifications:\nAAMI CISS certification desirable.\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: What you will need (must have):\nEducation Requirements:\nBachelor of Science in Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, or Biomedical Engineering.\n4+ years of work experience\nGermany Pay Ranges:\nFreiburg/Stetten 35Std: €4.760 - €7.965 EUR Monthly\n Freiburg/Stetten 39Std: €5.305 - €8.875 EUR Monthly\nAt Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.\nIf you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.\nTravel Percentage: 10%","description_format":"text","description_chars":6310,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Surgical Instruments & Devices","Orthopedic & Spine Implants","Neurotech & Neuromodulation","Hospital Equipment & Furniture"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T11:24:36Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":107028,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/stryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/stryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T10:03:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23393,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2579},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2579"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fstryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fstryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fstryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/stryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fstryker-staff-scientist-clinical-sciences-mfd"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3739534}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"stryker.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3739534},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}