Senior Staff Electrical Engineer, R&D

Stryker; Portage (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and prescription drug insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

A leading medical device company is seeking an Electrical Senior Staff Engineer in Portage, Michigan. This role involves leading the design and development of electrical components for hospital beds and stretchers. Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and over 6 years of related experience. Familiarity with advanced prototyping tools and command of electrical components is expected. Health and financial benefits include comprehensive insurance, HSA, and a 401(k) plan. This position offers significant opportunities to impact patient care.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of related design experience.
• Advanced understanding of electrical components and manufacturing methods.
• Experience with PCB schematic & layout process.

Responsibilities

• Lead or mentor design and development of electrical components.
• Conduct design and testing for medical devices.
• Make design tradeoff decisions.

Skills

Electrical components expertise

Advanced problem solving

Design and prototyping

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

PSpice

LTspice

OrCAD

Altium

Job description

As Electrical Senior Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for a wide variety of engineering work for development of hospital beds and stretchers medical devices including concept development, prototype design build and test, design changes, DFMEAs and compliance testing to ensure successful product launch. You may support and conduct root cause analysis, verification and validation testing, manufacturing transfer activities, component obsolescence management for existing products.

What You Will Do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Lead or mentor design and development of electrical components, sub-systems, and/or systems for medical devices.
• Conduct, design, and select advanced prototyping and testing.
• Lead and guide in correction of complex product design issues.
• Conduct advanced problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements.
• Translate user needs to design inputs/specifications and produce advanced component and sub-system level designs.
• Develop several invention disclosures, patents or trade secrets.
• Independently make design tradeoff decisions while designing multiple components of the system.
• Through the design process, you will design circuits including but not limited to Schematic Capture, Layout and Failure Mode Analysis for PCBA’s, Cables and other electromechanical components.

What You Will Need:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 6+ years of related design experience
• Advanced understanding of electrical components like microcontrollers, power supplies, motor control designs and manufacturing methods including common failure modes.
• Experience with PCB Schematic & Layout process and tools (e.g. PSpice, LTspice, OrCAD, Mentor Graphics, Altium, etc.).
• Experience using electronic hardware lab tools for development of design (e.g. Oscilloscope, Electronic Loads, Function Generator, Spectrum Analyzer, Environmental Chambers).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of wired interface protocols, including I2C, UART, RS-232, RS-485, CAN, SPI, LVDS, Ethernet, and DRAM interfaces
• Knowledge of wireless interface protocols, such as Bluetooth, BLE, RFID, and Wi‑Fi, including standards, requirements, and testing protocols
• Experience working with suppliers on process improvements, test methods development e.g. ICT, FCTs

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.