Senior Principal Engineer AI & Innovation Lead (Remote)

Stryker; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Engineer to lead software efforts in the Enterprise Digital Technology Innovation Lab. You will drive architectural decisions, prototype new AI-enabled solutions, and guide cross-functional teams to accelerate value from ideas to pilots and production where appropriate.

You will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and partner across cyber, data, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure systems while advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with hands-on delivery and leadership.
• 8+ years in senior technical leadership roles such as Chief Engineer / Principal Engineer.
• 7+ years of full stack engineering across front-end, back-end, cloud, API, database, integration and DevOps.
• 5+ years architecting scalable, cloud-native enterprise systems.
• 3+ years of AI/ML or generative AI experience and AI-enabled applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architecture direction for Innovation Lab initiatives.
• Design, build, and review full stack software solutions and AI-enabled applications.
• Prototype concepts rapidly and validate ideas with business stakeholders.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices, and technical governance for the lab.
• Partner with ED&T, cybersecurity, architecture, data and business teams to accelerate innovation.
• Mentor engineers and help build the lab's long-term technical capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for applicability to Stryker.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Next.js

Angular

Vue

Node.js

Python

Django

.NET

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Serverless

CI/CD

IaC

DevSecOps

Observability

Job description

Stryker Corporation is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Engineer to lead software efforts in the Enterprise Digital Technology Innovation Lab. You will drive architectural decisions, prototype new AI-enabled solutions, and guide cross-functional teams to accelerate value from ideas to pilots and production where appropriate.

You will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and partner across cyber, data, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure systems while advancing