• R&D Senior Staff Electrical Engineer

    Stryker (Portage, MI)


    As Electrical Senior Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for a wide variety of engineering work for new product development (NPD) of hospital beds and stretchers medical devices including concept development, prototype design build and test, design changes, DFMEAs and compliance testing to ensure successful product launch. You may support and conduct root cause analysis, verification and validation testing, manufacturing transfer activities, component obsolescence management for existing products.

    What You Will Do:

    Technical Responsibilities:

    + Lead or mentor design and development of complex motor control circuits, ADC, power supplies for new products.

    + Conduct or design advanced prototyping and testing for motor control and high end power electronic circuits.

    + May design and test high end battery modules

    + Conduct advanced problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements.

    + Independently make design tradeoff decisions while designing multiple components of the system.

    + Through the design process, you will design circuits including but not limited to Schematic Capture, Layout and Failure Mode Analysis for PCBA’s, Cables and other electromechanical components

    + Develop several invention disclosures, patents or trade secrets.

    + Lead and guide in correction of complex product design issues.

    What You Will Need:

    _Basic Qualifications:_

    + Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related field

    + 6+ years of related design experience

    + Strong knowledge & working experience of designing and testing Power MOSFETs, Motor Control, Power Supply topologies, ADCs, H-bridge control and thermal management

    + Advanced understanding of electrical components like microcontrollers, power supplies, motor control designs and manufacturing methods including common failure modes.

    _Preferred Qualifications:_

    + Knowledge of wired interface protocols, including I2C, UART, RS-232, RS-485, CAN, SPI, LVDS, Ethernet, and DRAM interfaces ·

    + Knowledge of wireless interface protocols, such as Bluetooth, BLE, RFID, and Wi-Fi, including standards, requirements, and testing protocols

    + Experience working with suppliers on process improvements, test methods development e.g. ICT, FCTs

    + Ability to work closely with software, mechanical, and electrical engineering disciplines to implement EMC best practices and execute testing at internal/external labs ·

     

    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.