Senior Principal Engineer Robotics

Stryker; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Sr. Principal Engineer to own end-to-end embedded platforms, including Mako 5 platform software, OS lifecycle management, and security. You will partner with architects to shape modules, drive platform strategy, and ensure security-by-design across products.

You will lead technical leadership across embedded systems, Linux internals, and product security; mentor teams; accelerate releases and raise quality while reducing vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of engineering experience across embedded software and system architecture.
• Strong background in Linux/OS internals and platform security.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving security-by-design.
• Hands-on expertise in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.
• OSS security and compliance management; post-market security activities.

Responsibilities

• Define and own platform architecture for M5 embedded software and OS lifecycle.
• Lead security integration across the SDLC and product lines.
• Drive standards, frameworks, and architecture decisions across teams.
• Mentor high-performing engineering teams and enable faster releases.
• Influence early architecture decisions across products.

Skills

Embedded software

System architecture

Linux/OS internals

Security-by-design

Mentoring

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

What you will do:

Sr. Principal Engineer responsible for end-to-end embedded platforms (Embedded Software (Mako 5 platform), Embedded OS Lifecycle Management and product security). Operates at the intersection of architecture, development, and security, driving platform lifecycle strategy, technical excellence, and security-by-design across products.

• Partner with other platform and software architects to develop platform tech block/modules.
• Platform Ownership: Define and partner with architects to architecture modules for M5 embedded software, OS Lifecycle Management (Flex OS), and security platforms across product lines.
• Technical Leadership: Provide deep expertise in embedded systems, Linux/OS internals, product security and systems architecture.
• Security Integration: Embed security-by-design (threat modeling, secure design, validation) into the full SDLC and post-market product security activities.
• Cross-Team Influence: Drive standards, frameworks, and architecture decisions across multiple teams and platforms
• Strategic Initiatives: Lead initiatives on platform hardening, shift-left security, quality improvement, and release acceleration

What you need:

• Influence early-stage architecture decisions across products
• Improve first-pass quality and reduce vulnerabilities/rework
• Enable faster, predictable releases via proactive design
• Act as a technical authority across embedded, OS, and security domains
• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ Years of work experience with an Engineering background
• Strong experience in Embedded software and system architecture, Linux / OS internals
• Product and platform security (secure design, hardening)
• Hands-on expertise in:
• Vulnerability assessment, penetration testing
• OSS security and compliance management
• Post-market product security activities management
• Proven ability to Lead platform-level / multi-product initiatives
• Influence cross-functional teams
• Drive end-to-end ownership (design → delivery)

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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.