Principal Engineer - Foot & Ankle, R&D

As a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer on Stryker's Foot & Ankle CORE New Product Development team, you will be at the forefront of creating groundbreaking medical devices that improve patient lives. In this highly visible role, you will lead the design and development of products from initial concept through to successful launch, applying your technical expertise to solve complex engineering challenges.

Beyond driving innovative solutions, you will act as a trusted advisor and mentor-guiding junior engineers, shaping design strategies, and championing best practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence. Collaborating across R&D, Marketing, Quality, and Manufacturing, you will influence critical decisions and ensure that every product meets the highest standards of safety, performance, and reliability.

This is more than a design role-it is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on patients, the business, and the future of medical technology.

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What you will do:

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  Partner with customers, as well as internal and external key opinion leaders, to develop technical strategies that meet clinical needs.

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  Collaborate on Financial /business modeling and support business reviews to validate a technical approach.

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  Independent reviewer and advisor for the creation or refinement of engineering documentation, such as the Design History file.

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  Lead cooperative efforts with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management to ensure project success.

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  Lead and support team members to create or improve procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology requirements.

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  Develop and utilize tools to enhance the company's product/process development or performance.

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  Lead and support complex product development for cross-functional teams, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise.

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  Mentor, develop, and influence across the business, intentionally building divisional relationships.

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What You Need:

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

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  Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or BioMedical or a related discipline

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  8+ years of work experience

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Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

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  Broad base of experience in implementing design methodologies such as DFM, Reliability, Systems Design & experience in New Product Development.

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  High degree of experience in medical device design (or designing in a highly regulated industry) and ability to utilize Solid Modeling and CAE tools to optimize the design

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  In-depth knowledge of materials, manufacturing, and processing methods and technologies to support complex product development

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  Ability to communicate complex plans and technical information to team members within and across businesses

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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.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.