Senior Video Systems Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits including medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Stryker is looking for a Senior Video Systems Engineer in San Jose, CA, to innovate surgical visualization and operating room integration solutions. The role involves defining system-level video requirements and requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering with 2+ years in systems engineering. Candidates must be willing to work onsite/hybrid as needed.

The position offers a competitive salary range from $101,000 to $168,400 USD annually, along with extensive health and financial benefits including medical, dental, vision, and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in systems engineering or related roles.
• Experience defining system-level requirements.
• Proven experience collaborating with systems engineering and architecture teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate clinical and user needs into system-level requirements.
• Develop and analyze product solutions and participate in Concept Phase activities.
• Define and document interfaces between subsystems.

Skills

Systems engineering experience

Collaboration skills

Communication skills

Familiarity with video interfaces

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama)

Collaboration tools (e.g., Miro)

SysML/MBSE tools (e.g., Cameo/MagicDraw)

Job description

Overview

Stryker is seeking to hire a Senior Video Systems Engineer as part of our Endoscopy Business. In this role, you will help define and deliver innovative, clinically meaningful surgical visualization and operating room integration solutions. Working cross-functionally with R&D, UX, Marketing, Quality, and Regulatory teams, you will translate product vision into system-level video requirements, architectures, and interfaces—ensuring alignment across hardware, software, and platform constraints to deliver high-quality medical video systems. This position may be onsite or hybrid based on business needs.

Workplace flexibility: Candidate must reside within a commutable distance to either San Jose, CA or Flower Mound, TX but is expected to be onsite at the facility multiple times per week.

What You Will Do

• Translate clinical, user, business, and regulatory needs into clear system-level requirements
• Decompose complex product concepts into well-structured system architectures, workflows, system block diagrams, and feature definitions
• Develop and analyze product solutions, participating in Concept Phase activities
• Prepare and participate in Technical Design Reviews (TDRs), feature refinement sessions, and system walk-throughs
• Build alignment and consensus through structured discussions and documented decisions
• Define and document interfaces between subsystems, including mechanical, electrical, data, control, and user-facing interfaces
• Produce product and system-level documentation to support releases and internal alignment as required
• Bridge communication between diverse stakeholders (customers, marketing, UX, software, hardware, etc.) ensuring that the technical implementation aligns with user expectations and business goals
• Maintain high quality systems documentation and decision traceability

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, or a related field, with 2+ years of experience in systems engineering or related roles
• Experience defining system-level requirements and acceptance criteria, including decomposing user needs, clinical workflows, and business objectives into clear, testable requirements
• Proven experience collaborating with systems engineering and architecture teams
• Experience working across the full product development lifecycle, from early concept and requirements definition through verification and product launch
• Familiarity with video interfaces and standards (e.g., HDMI, SDI, DisplayPort, USB, Ethernet-based video)

Preferred

• Experience with digital video systems, including video acquisition, processing, encoding/decoding, distribution pipelines, and/or camera systems, sensors, optics, illumination, and image quality trade-offs
• Experience with surgical visualization, endoscopy, or operating room integration systems
• Experience working on complex, integrated systems in regulated or highly structured environments, including exposure to medical devices or adjacent industries (e.g., imaging, video, optics, robotics) and knowledge of ISO 13485 and ISO 14971
• Working knowledge of requirements management and systems engineering tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, Jira, Azure DevOps), collaboration tools (e.g. Miro), and SysML/MBSE tools (e.g., Cameo/MagicDraw, Enterprise Architect), with experience or exposure to MBSE practices

Salary: $101,000 - $168,400 USD Annual

Benefits

• 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.