Manager, Robotics Platform Development

Stryker Corporation; Florida; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking a Manager, Robotics Platform Development to lead a growing engineering organization focused on complex robotic medical technology. You will manage a multidisciplinary team spanning electrical, systems, product safety, and contractor staff.

You will drive staffing, execution, and program planning, partner with senior technical leaders on architecture and strategy, and ensure adherence to design controls and quality requirements across the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or an applicable technical field.
• 8+ years of engineering experience.
• 2+ years of direct people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering organization supporting complex robotic platform development.
• Drive execution across hardware and systems development with staffing, schedules, and budgets.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure design controls, risk management, and regulatory compliance throughout development.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Execution planning

Architecture & strategy

Design controls

Regulatory awareness

Distributed teams

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or technical field

Job description

Work Flexibility: Onsite It's Time to Join Stryker! Stryker is seeking a Manager, Robotics Platform Development to lead a growing engineering organization supporting the development and evolution of complex robotic medical technology. In this role, you will lead a multidisciplinary team spanning electrical engineering, systems engineering, product safety, and engineering contractors. You will focus on people leadership, organizational scalability, and engineering execution, ensuring teams are appropriately staffed, supported, and positioned to deliver complex platform development commitments. You will partner closely with project management and senior technical leaders, helping translate program priorities into executable plans while enabling technical leaders to remain focused on architecture, systems strategy, and technical excellence.

What You Will Do

People and Organizational Leadership

Lead, coach, develop, and engage a multidisciplinary engineering organization supporting complex robotic platform development. Establish clear performance expectations, provide actionable feedback, and support career and professional development. Lead a blended organization of full-time employees and contractors, including workload planning, onboarding, integration, and day-to-day coordination. Support staffing and organizational planning as program and business needs evolve. Build a collaborative, accountable team culture focused on execution, quality, and continuous improvement.

Engineering and Program Execution

Drive execution across complex hardware and systems development activities, ensuring teams have the resources, priorities, and support needed to deliver program commitments. Partner with project and program management to translate program objectives into engineering plans, schedules, staffing needs, and deliverables. Identify execution risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies and drive timely resolution. Balance priorities across multiple development efforts while maintaining focus on quality, schedule, and business objectives. Support resource planning, contractor strategy, budgeting, forecasting, and project-level financial accountability. Provide engineering leadership and technical judgment while partnering with senior technical leaders responsible for architecture and technical strategy.

Cross-Functional and Compliance Leadership

Partner with Electrical, Systems, Software, Mechanical, Product Safety, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and other functions throughout the product development lifecycle. Ensure engineering activities are executed in accordance with applicable design controls, risk management processes, quality systems, and regulatory requirements. Review and approve, or appropriately delegate, technical documentation and program deliverables within assigned areas. Support continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and operating practices. Support a distributed engineering organization and travel periodically to other Stryker development sites as business needs require.

What You Will Need

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or an applicable technical field. 8+ years of applicable engineering experience. 2+ years of direct people management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Electrical Engineering background or significant experience leading electrical hardware development teams.


• Experience leading complex engineering projects, programs, or technical organizations.


• Demonstrated ability to influence across engineering disciplines and drive execution in a cross-functional environment.


• Experience leading a blended organization of full-time employees and engineering contractors.


• Experience managing engineering teams through complex product redesign, modernization, or late-stage product development programs.


• Medical device experience or experience in another highly regulated or safety-critical product development environment.


• Experience with design controls, risk management, verification, and regulated product development.


• Experience managing staffing, schedules, resources, budgets, and competing program priorities.


• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.

$135,600 - $225,900 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. Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

Work Flexibility

• Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.


• Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.


• Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.


• Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.