Staff Software Engineer, R&D

Stryker; Portage (MI); On-site; USD 103,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design and develop software for advanced electromechanical medical devices. You will translate requirements, own module design and testing, and collaborate across engineering, regulatory, and manufacturing teams to ensure robust product delivery.

You will work across the product lifecycle from concept through verification, launch, and post-market enhancements, contributing to quality software and reliable medical devices used

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 4 years of professional software engineering experience in an embedded systems environment.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and Python for embedded applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop embedded software for medical device applications and electromechanical surgical systems.
• Translate requirements into software designs and implementation plans.
• Own design, coding, integration, testing, and troubleshooting of embedded software modules.

Skills

C programming

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering / computer science

Tools

Git

GitLab

Jira

Visual Studio Code

Arm Keil

STM32Cube

Job description

Join a team developing embedded software for advanced electromechanical medical devices within Stryker's Orthopaedic Instruments business. In this role, you will contribute to software systems that power surgical technologies used by orthopedic surgeons worldwide while partnering across software, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering disciplines. You will support the development of innovative medical devices throughout the product lifecycle, from concept and architecture through verification, launch, and post-market enhancements.

What You Will Do

• Design and develop embedded software for medical device applications and electromechanical surgical systems.
• Translate customer, user, and system requirements into software designs and implementation plans.
• Own the design, coding, integration, testing, and troubleshooting of software modules for embedded systems.
• Contribute across the product lifecycle, including concept development, architecture, verification, validation, launch, and post-market support.
• Conduct technical investigations, evaluate design alternatives, and resolve complex software and system-level issues.
• Develop and maintain software documentation, including requirements, architecture, design, test, and defect records.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, clinical, marketing, and project management teams to support product development activities.
• Review code and apply software engineering standards, best practices, and quality processes to deliver reliable software solutions.

Required Qualifications

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 4 years of professional software engineering experience in an embedded systems environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing software for embedded systems using C, C++, and/or Python.
• Experience configuring, debugging, and supporting microcontroller-based hardware systems.
• Experience with software quality assessment techniques, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, memory management, and code coverage.
• Experience with software verification and validation methodologies, requirements management, and traceability practices.
• Experience using software development tools such as Git, GitLab, Jira, Visual Studio Code, Arm Keil, STM32Cube, or similar platforms.
• Experience developing automated test frameworks, verification tools, or supporting engineering test laboratories and test infrastructure.
• $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual

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.