Staff Electrical Engineer- PCB

PowerToFly; Portage (MI); On-site; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Prescription drug coverage

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

401(k) plan

Short-term disability

HSA / FSA options

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer-PCB in its Orthopaedic Instruments R&D team to improve and redesign established medical devices. You will design electrical components, lead testing, and mentor others to meet regulatory standards while collaborating with Quality, Manufacturing and Regulatory groups.

Work on translating clinical needs into robust design inputs and validating performance across a portfolio of products used in operating rooms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 4+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• PCB/circuit design, electrical system testing and troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to interpret and analyze system-level drawings and interactions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop electrical components and subsystems for medical devices, meeting performance and compliance standards.
• Apply advanced circuit and system test methods to validate designs and ensure reliability.
• Lead prototyping and testing efforts to evaluate design feasibility and performance.
• Translate user needs into design inputs and specifications, ensuring alignment with clinical requirements.
• Analyze and resolve complex design issues using data-driven approaches to improve processes and outcomes.
• Collaborate across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, and Regulatory teams to drive project success.
• Author and maintain engineering documentation, including Design History Files, in compliance with regulatory standards.
• Mentor team members on design controls, risk management, and industry standards.

Skills

PCB/circuit design

Electrical system testing

Troubleshooting experience

System-level interpretation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

At Stryker, we’re driven to make healthcare better. As a Staff Electrical Engineer-PCB within our Orthopaedic Instruments R&D team, you won’t be designing concepts that may never reach patients. You’ll be improving and redesigning products that are already trusted by surgeons around the world. This is an opportunity to apply your electrical engineering expertise to enhance performance, reliability, manufacturability, and patient outcomes across a portfolio of established medical technologies. Working alongside cross-functional partners, you’ll tackle complex technical challenges, influence product evolution, and make a measurable impact on devices used every day in operating rooms.

Interested in the products you'll help support and improve? Learn more about our Orthopaedic Instruments portfolio and the MAKO RPS handpiece:

https://www.stryker.com/us/en/about/news/2026/stryker-introduces-mako-handheld-robotics-mako-rps.html

What You Will Do

• Design and develop electrical components and subsystems for medical devices, meeting performance and compliance standards.
• Apply advanced circuit and system test methods to validate designs and ensure reliability.
• Lead prototyping and testing efforts to evaluate design feasibility and performance.
• Translate user needs into design inputs and specifications, ensuring alignment with clinical requirements.
• Analyze and resolve complex design issues using data-driven approaches to improve processes and outcomes.
• Collaborate across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, and Regulatory teams to drive project success.
• Author and maintain engineering documentation, including Design History Files, in compliance with regulatory standards.
• Mentor team members on design controls, risk management, and industry standards.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 4+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• PCB/circuit design, electrical system testing and troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to interpret and analyze system-level drawings and interactions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of design controls and regulatory compliance in a product development environment.
• Experience designing for medical devices or other regulated industries.
• Knowledge of common electrical component failure modes and mitigation strategies.
• Familiarity with Voice of Customer (VoC) processes and clinical procedure inputs.
• Understanding of system and environmental interactions in product design.

$89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• critical illness insurance
• accident insurance
• hospital indemnity insurance
• personalized healthcare support
• wellbeing program
• tobacco cessation program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• 401(k) plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• basic life and AD&D insurance
• 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.