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San Jose, CAJob$133–222K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Stryker is seeking a hands-on Senior Staff Hardware Engineer for its Smart Care organization, focused on camera and imaging sensor technologies for smart hospital solutions. The engineer will lead hardware development across the product lifecycle and provide technical direction to JDM partners. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable, manufacturable products for critical care environments.
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What You Will Do:
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Staff Hardware Engineer to join our growing Smart Care organization. In this highly technical role, you will help define, develop, and deliver next-generation smart hospital solutions for critical care environments, with a strong focus on camera and imaging sensor technologies.
You will provide technical leadership across the full hardware product lifecycle, working closely with internal cross-functional teams and Joint Design Manufacturer (JDM) partners to translate product concepts into robust, scalable, and manufacturable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead and execute end-to-end hardware development across the product lifecycle, from architecture and concept development through design, validation, production launch, sustaining, and end-of-life, with a primary focus on camera and imaging sensor systems.
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Provide technical leadership and direction to JDM engineering teams for board-level architecture, design, implementation, integration, and debugging.
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Review and provide technical guidance on hardware design collateral, including schematics, component selection, PCB layout, and design documentation.
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Develop clear and comprehensive hardware architecture, design requirements, interface specifications, and engineering documentation for internal and external development teams.
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Define and execute comprehensive hardware verification and validation plans at the board, subsystem, and system levels.
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Characterize, analyze, and optimize system and product-level performance, reliability, and robustness.
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Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex hardware and system-level issues, coordinating internal engineering teams, suppliers, and JDM partners.
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Partner closely with firmware, software, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams to ensure successful system integration, design transfer, production ramp, and product launch.
What You Will Need:
Required Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering field, with 6+ years of direct product development experience involving camera or imaging systems, preferably taking products from concept through production.
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Demonstrated experience partnering with Joint Design Manufacturers (JDMs), Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs), or external engineering partners throughout the product development lifecycle.
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Strong hardware design expertise involving camera modules, image sensors, processors/SoCs, displays, motors, and embedded electronic systems.
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Strong knowledge of hardware interfaces and protocols, including USB, HDMI, UART, Ethernet, and other high-speed and low-speed interfaces.
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Extensive PCB design, review, bring-up, and debugging experience, including multi-layer boards, fine-pitch BGAs, high-speed signal routing, power distribution, and complex board-level troubleshooting.
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Hands-on experience with prototype bring-up, functional verification, design validation, and manufacturing support, utilizing laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and network/interface test equipment.
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Strong understanding of system-level design considerations, including PCB and mechanical integration, thermal management, power architecture/conversion, signal integrity, reliability, and manufacturability.
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Proven ability to independently lead complex technical projects, operate effectively with evolving or ambiguous requirements, translate product needs into practical engineering solutions, and drive technical issues through resolution.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Master’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering field
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$133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual
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.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,137 open Hardware Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$133–222K/yr
- California median$168–245K/yr241 salary ranges
- US median$146–245K/yr825 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $178K, is 15% below the California median midpoint ($209K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineering salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 369 open Hardware Engineering jobs in California and 1,137 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Hardware Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (674 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 374 of the 1,137 open Hardware Engineering jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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