Intern Conversion - R&D Engineer

Stryker•Irvine, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The R&D Engineer supports the development of medical device products, including writing or verifying specifications, maintaining product process, designing fixtures, test processes and equipment and raw materials to ensure concepts and/or prototypes meet requirements. This role involves technical responsibilities such as designing, developing, modifying, and verifying mechanical components for medical devices under supervision. It also includes assisting with prototyping, bench testing, and testing prototypes to verify they meet design requirements. The engineer will support problem-solving, root cause analysis, and the evaluation of potential solutions while maintaining traceability. Additionally, the role involves conducting research, developing new test methods and fixtures, aiding with material and design specifications, ideating new design concepts, performing statistical analysis, and contributing to Design Reviews. Business responsibilities include understanding customer needs, product intended use, and maintaining Design History File tasks. Compliance responsibilities involve understanding industry standards and regulatory requirements, creating engineering documentation, and learning R&D procedures like design controls and risk management. General responsibilities include collaborating with various departments, learning procedures and systems, working on problems with a limited scope, demonstrating ownership and integrity, building relationships, and contributing to the project as a team member.

Requirements

Basic understanding of customer needs and design inputs.
Understand the product’s intended use and clinical procedures.
Understand fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which align with regulatory requirements.
Basic understanding of medical device product development.

Nice To Haves

Experience with medical device products.
Experience with writing or verifying specifications.
Experience maintaining product process.
Experience designing fixtures, test processes and equipment.
Experience with raw materials.
Experience with prototyping.
Experience with bench testing.
Experience with root cause analysis.
Experience with intellectual property generation.
Experience with statistical analysis.
Experience contributing to Design Reviews.
Experience with Design History File tasks.
Experience with engineering documentation.
Experience with company design control procedures.
Experience with R&D procedures.
Experience with Quality Management System.
Experience working with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management.
Experience learning procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology.
Experience working on problems in limited scope.
Experience purposefully learning while gaining experience.
Experience demonstrating ownership and integrity of work.
Experience building stable relationships.
Experience contributing to the project as a team member.

Responsibilities

Under supervision, design, develop, modify, and verify mechanical components for medical devices.
Assist with prototyping and bench testing.
Test prototypes to verify meet design requirements.
Support problem solving, root cause analysis, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against requirements while maintaining traceability of components.
Under supervision, conduct research and studies to support product design and process development.
Under supervision, develop new test methods, fixtures, and inspection processes for evaluating prototypes.
Aid with specification development and testing of new materials and designs.
Ideate new design concepts and generate intellectual property.
Perform statistical analysis and present findings.
Contribute to Design Reviews.
Individual Design History File task ownership including testing and drawings.
With supervision, create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file per company design control procedures.
Learn R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.
With supervision, work with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success.
Learn procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology.
Work on problems in limited scope; purposefully learn while gaining experience.
Demonstrate ownership and integrity of work.
Build stable relationships.
Contribute to the project as a team member.

Benefits

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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