Staff Software Engineer- Neurosurgical Applications (Hybrid In Mi-Open To Relo)

Work Flexibility: Remote or Hybrid or Onsite
Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and is dedicated to helping healthcare professionals perform their jobs more efficiently while enhancing patient care. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including reconstructive, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology and spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives. We are currently seeking a Staff Applications Software Engineerto work (hybrid) out of our headquarters in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area. (Relocation Provided)
Who We Want:
As a Staff Applications Software Engineer, you will support new product development and play a pivotal role in the development of cutting-edge medical products within Stryker's NeuroSurgical division. Your expertise will drive innovation in surgical execution, contributing to procedural solutions in cranial and spinal fusion.

• Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes - finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.
• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.
• Self-directed initiators. People who take ownership of their work and need no prompting to drive productivity, change, and outcomes.

What You Will Do:
Technical Responsibilities:

• Design and conduct advanced prototyping and testing.
• Identify solutions for complex problems, evaluating them against component and sub-system requirements.
• Perform research and studies to support innovative product design.
• Translate user needs into design specifications and produce advanced component and sub-system designs.
• Analyze and resolve complex product design issues, exercising independent judgment.
• Balance design tradeoffs while working on system components.
• Develop software systems according to defined requirements and architecture.
• Estimate code development time/resources to support projects.
• Generate and review essential project documents (requirements, design, architecture, bugs, tests).

Business Responsibilities:

• Apply in-depth customer knowledge, market insights, and competitive understanding to drive solution advancements.
• Utilize clinical procedure expertise to define design inputs.
• Support internal and external Voice of Customer sessions with clinicians.
• Demonstrate evolving financial acumen.

General Responsibilities:

• Collaborate across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management for successful project outcomes.
• Identify, create, and enhance procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology.
• Contribute to complex product development phases, advancing projects through design, development, and launch.
• Play a role in the product development lifecycle, from concept to release.
• Deliver high-quality results with enthusiasm, energy, and alignment with business priorities.
• Foster relationships and exert influence across engineering groups within the business.
• Design, develop, modify, evaluate, and verify software components for medical devices.
• Apply design principles, coding standards, and best practices in code reviews.

What You Will Need: (Required)

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline & 4+ years of work experience.
• Prior Qt/QML experience.
• C / C++ programming language proficiency.
• STL experience.
• Linux experience.

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
Technical Skills:

• Exposure to programming skills. Design new components applying various concepts design concepts and patterns.
• Experience with software tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software.
• Prior experience developing mission-critical software in a regulated industry.
• Familiar with FDA software regulations and ISO 62304.

Software Process Skills:

• Experience in creating estimates for code implementation time/resources for assigned tasks.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle processes.
• Experience using Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability tools.
• Experience with regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

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.