Senior Product Systems Engineer, R&D
About The Position
Stryker is seeking a Senior Product Systems Engineer to help shape its Smart OR platform and surgical visualization solutions. The role contributes to R&D strategy for products used in Stryker intelligent operating rooms and helps define next-generation solutions by ensuring integrated hardware, software, imaging, video, and workflow technologies provide value to surgeons, care teams, and patients. The engineer partners across hardware, software, imaging, video processing, and user experience teams to turn customer, clinical, and business needs into system requirements and product features. This is a hybrid role for candidates within commuting distance of San Jose, California. The schedule requires in-office presence three days per week, with remote work available the rest of the week; candidates must be able to commute to the facility as needed. Travel is 10%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, biomedical engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 2 years of experience in systems engineering or related product development roles.
- Experience translating user, customer, and business needs into clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing regulated medical devices or related surgical visualization, endoscopy, or operating room integration systems.
- Knowledge of applicable standards such as ISO 13485 and ISO 14971.
- Experience developing complex hardware/software systems in a regulated or structured environment.
- Experience applying systems engineering practices, including requirements management, interface definition, verification, and traceability.
- Experience with tools such as Jama, Jira, Azure DevOps, or Miro.
- Experience with digital video systems, including video acquisition, processing, distribution, camera technologies, and image quality considerations.
- Familiarity with interfaces and standards such as HDMI, SDI, DisplayPort, USB, and Ethernet-based video.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to defining and prioritizing product capabilities for next-generation Smart OR and surgical visualization solutions.
- Contribute to system architectures, integration strategies, and interfaces across connected operating room technologies.
- Own product and system requirements and ensure traceability from customer needs through verification and validation.
- Translate surgeon, customer, business, and regulatory needs into requirements, workflows, and product capabilities.
- Support product decisions by balancing customer value, technical feasibility, risk, and business impact.
- Partner with Engineering, UX, Marketing, Quality, and Regulatory teams to deliver solutions from concept through commercialization.
- Support product strategy and roadmap development by evaluating emerging technologies, competitive offerings, market trends, and customer feedback.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
