Senior Engineer, R&D

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Job description

We are excited to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces by Fortune Magazine! We are proud to offer you 12 paid holidays annually. For an overview of our benefits and time off, please follow this link to learn more:US Stryker employee benefits.

The Senior Engineer, R&D focuses on product sustainment, continuous improvement, design changes, and lifecycle management, providing the opportunity to apply engineering expertise across manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and testing functions. You will play a key role in maintaining product performance, supporting technical investigations, and implementing engineering solutions throughout the product lifecycle. This role is Hybrid in Mahwah, NJ.

What You Will Do

• Represent the R&D sustainment engineering team at the manufacturing site and coordinate technical activities with global engineering and manufacturing partners.
• Support product remediation, maintenance, and lifecycle management activities around customized implants within the CMF product portfolio.
• Lead the evaluation, development, and implementation of engineering and design changes through established change management processes.
• Develop and implement engineering solutions that enhance product performance, manufacturability, reliability, and ongoing product support.
• Assess the impact of design changes on product performance, quality requirements, manufacturing processes, and regulatory compliance.
• Conduct technical investigations of customer complaints, nonconformities, and product-related issues using structured root cause analysis methodologies.
• Define, document, and implement corrective and preventive actions to address identified issues and support product reliability.
• Create, review, and maintain engineering documentation, technical specifications, risk management files, and design change records in compliance with applicable requirements.

What You Will Need

• Minimum 2 years of engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Experience conducting technical investigations and root cause analyses.
• Experience creating, reviewing, and maintaining engineering documentation and design change records.

Preferred

• Experience working in the medical device industry.
• Experience supporting sustaining engineering, product maintenance, or product lifecycle management activities.
• Experience implementing product changes within a regulated quality management system.
• Experience collaborating with Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory Affairs, or Testing functions.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• US20: $93,200 - $155,400 USD Annual

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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.