Senior Mechanical Engineer, Disposable Fluid-Path Plastics

Stryker; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 168,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

HSA/FSAs

Short-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to develop and manage disposable fluid-path components for the Urology portfolio. The role emphasizes injection-molded plastics, supplier collaboration, and lifecycle ownership of cartridges, cassettes, and tubing systems.

You will work with cross-functional teams to resolve design, manufacturing, and field issues while mentoring in plastics design and design controls within a regulated medical-device environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering is required.
• Two or more years of product-development experience is required.
• Experience designing injection-molded plastic parts or small plastic components is required.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer and product needs into engineering requirements, specifications, and mechanical designs for disposable fluid‑path components.
• Support the design and development of cartridges, cassettes, tubing systems, connectors, sealing interfaces, locking mechanisms, and other plastic components.
• Create and evaluate design concepts through prototyping, engineering analysis, and proof‑of‑concept testing.
• Develop 3‑D models, engineering drawings, tolerance analyses, and GD&T documentation.
• Apply injection‑molding design principles, including material selection, part geometry, dimensional requirements, tooling considerations, and manufacturing feasibility.
• Lead technical collaboration with suppliers during concept development, design reviews, tooling development, component qualification, and production support.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities and work with Supplier Quality and Sourcing to address quality, cost, delivery, and manufacturability requirements.
• Review supplier‑proposed concepts and provide technical recommendations based on product performance, design requirements, and manufacturing risk.
• Plan, execute, analyze, and document design verification testing.
• Support design transfer, engineering builds, process validation, and the introduction of new or modified components into production.
• Investigate product, manufacturing, and field issues using structured root‑cause analysis and corrective‑action methods.
• Identify opportunities to improve product reliability, manufacturability, quality, and cost.
• Maintain design documentation and contribute to design controls, risk‑management activities, and the Design History File.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, recommendations, and project status to internal stakeholders and external suppliers.

Skills

Mechanical design

Communication

Root cause analysis

Statistical analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering

Tools

3-D modeling software

Engineering drawings

Job description

Stryker is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to develop and manage disposable fluid-path components for the Urology portfolio. The role emphasizes injection-molded plastics, supplier collaboration, and lifecycle ownership of cartridges, cassettes, and tubing systems.

You will work with cross-functional teams to resolve design, manufacturing, and field issues while mentoring in plastics design and design controls within a regulated medical-device environment.