Stryker

Staff Electrical Engineer, Embedded Systems

United States · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerStryker
LocationUnited States
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted9 Oct 2026

Work Flexibility: Onsite

Stryker is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer, Embedded Systems for our Sports Medicine business in Greenwood Village, CO. In this role, you will serve as a senior technical contributor, supporting the full product life cycle including sustainment, design, development, and verification of complex electrical and software systems for our line of Arthroscopy pumps and soft-tissue/bone resection medical devices. You will apply technical expertise to solve design challenges by translating clinical and user needs into robust solutions. You will collaborate cross‑functionally with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, and Clinical partners, ensuring designs meet performance, quality, and regulatory standards.

What you will do:

Design, develop, and verify electrical and software components and sub‑systems for regulated medical devices.
Bring-up and debug electrical/firmware integration at the signal level, diagnosing failures across the hardware/software boundary.
Support product End of Life (EOL) component evaluations, execute design changes and complete engineering change orders to support sustained market success.
Apply circuit, system, and software test methods, including prototyping, verification, validation, and design reviews to ensure robust, compliant designs.
Help translate user, clinical, and Voice of Customer inputs into clear design requirements, specifications, and architectures at the component and sub‑system level.
Analyze and resolve design issues using independent judgment, balancing technical, regulatory, cost, and schedule tradeoffs.
Develop, modify, and review software per defined architecture and requirements, applying design principles, coding standards, and best practices in code reviews.
Contribute to high‑quality engineering documentation, including requirements, design artifacts, test strategies, defect tracking, and Design History Files.
Work closely with cross‑functional teams (R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management), influencing outcomes and driving projects forward.

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What you need:

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related discipline.
Minimum of 4+ years of experience designing and developing embedded systems, with hands-on ownership across both hardware and firmware domains; including PCB bring-up, signal-level debugging, component failure analysis, alternative component selection and qualification, and/or embedded firmware development.
Understanding of electrical components and common failure modes, with the ability to interpret, analyze, and test electrical and system‑level designs.
Experience analyzing system architectures, schematics, and design documentation to understand design intent and implement changes within defined technical and regulatory constraints.

Preferred:

Experience in Medical Device development or other regulated industries.
Working knowledge of the end‑to‑end electrical design process, including use of CAD and circuit design/analysis tools.
Experience developing software in C/C++ and applying software engineering best practices, including code analysis, memory management, defect resolution, integration, deployment, and SDLC methodologies.

$98,200 - $163,700 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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