The R&D Engineer supports the development of medical device products, including writing or verifying specifications, maintaining product process, designing fixtures, test processes and equipment and raw materials to ensure concepts and/or prototypes meet requirements.
Technical Responsibilities:
Under supervision, design, develop, modify, and verify mechanical components for medical devices.
Assist with prototyping and bench testing.
Test prototypes to verify meet design requirements.
Support problem solving, root cause analysis, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against requirements while maintaining traceability of components.
Under supervision, conduct research and studies to support product design and process development.
Under supervision, develop new test methods, fixtures, and inspection processes for evaluating prototypes.
Aid with specification development and testing of new materials and designs.
Ideate new design concepts and generate intellectual property.
Preform statistical analysis and present findings.
Contribute to Design Reviews.
Business Responsibilities:
Basic understanding of customer needs and design inputs.
Understand the product’s intended use and clinical procedures.
Individual Design History File task ownership including testing and drawings.
Med Device Compliance:
Understand fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which align with regulatory requirements.
With supervision, create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file per company design control procedures.
Learn R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.
General Responsibilities:
With supervision, work with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success.
Learn procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.
Work on problems in limited scope; purposefully learn while gaining experience.
Demonstrate ownership and integrity of work.
Build stable relationships.
Contribute to the project as a team member.
$83,400 - $139,000 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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