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We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to support Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technology. This research and development role will lead efforts to define, simulate, test, and improve the accuracy performance of our Mako system, including anatomy registration and robotic resection. Your responsibilities will include translating user needs into design accuracy specifications and leading the effort to allocate and decompose accuracy requirements on multi-disciplinary concepts using modeling, simulation, budgeting, and mathematical techniques. Additionally, you will design and execute analytical studies, and assess new technologies and capabilities to solve novel accuracy challenges. By partnering with internal and external stakeholders, you will drive technical strategies that meet clinical needs and enhance the company's performance through innovative solutions.

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This role is hybrid with the expectation to be on-site in Weston, FL, 3 days a week.

What you will do:

Build and use tools (Matlab, Python, Monte-Carlo, FEA, Minitab, etc.) to simulate accuracy of anatomy registration, localization system, and robotic platform. Apply statistics approaches to data to compare simulated accuracy result to requirement.

Lead technical integration of devices to be used to improve anatomy registration and robotic platform accuracy.

Apply advanced engineering theories to develop concepts while establishing methods to prove concept feasibility.

Create and assess performance of algorithms used in anatomy registration and robotic surgery.

Translate user needs to accuracy design specifications.

Lead the effort to define an accuracy budget, negotiate with stakeholders allowed errors to the system, platform, and components.

Design and execute tests and tools (hardware, software, data post processing) to measure accuracy.

Consider cross-functional needs (clinical, marketing, sustaining) to ensure successful transition of accuracy related concepts from feasibility to product launch.

Identify and assess new technologies and capabilities (prototyping, testing) to improve anatomy registration and robotic surgery accuracy.

Develop and influence invention disclosures and patents while navigating the intellectual landscape.

What you need:

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Software, Electrical, Systems, Biomedical Engineering, or related discipline

6+ years overall work experience

2+ years of work experience in medical device or other highly regulated industry

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in assessing, integrating, and developing electromechanical components and assemblies, with familiarity in system processes related to mechatronics, localization, and/or robotics

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

Experience creating accuracy test protocols for electro-mechanical systems

Application of statistics to refine and assess large data sets

Practical application of linear algebra to robotic and localization systems

Algorithm development

Basic robotics control understanding

Experience developing and assessing anatomy registration methods and algorithms

Ability to formulate and test design requirements

Clinical operating room or cadaveric testing

Medical imaging use and analysis

Matlab and/or Python proficiency

CAD proficiency preferred (Solidworks)

Compensation Grade: 12

Travel Percentage: 10%

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.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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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.