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Staff R&D Engineer

Stryker

Waltham, MAJob$107–179K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$107–179K/yr
Location
Waltham, MA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Staff R&D Engineer – Systems Engineering supports development of complex medical devices from concept through commercialization. The role translates stakeholder and clinical needs into system requirements and guides architecture, interface management, risk management, integration, verification, and validation across multidisciplinary engineering teams. It also collaborates with clinical, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and engineering partners to advance projects through development and launch.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

System RequirementsSystem DesignVerification StrategiesRequirements Management SoftwareJamaSysMLMBSEISO 13485ISO 14971Software SystemsElectrical SystemsC++MATLABScripting Languages

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Related4 Years Engineering Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Join Stryker’s Amplitude Vascular Systems (AVS) team in Waltham , Massachusetts as a Staff R&D Engineer - Systems Engineering . In this role, you’ll be supporting the development of complex medical devices from concept through commercialization, working across software, electrical, and mechanical systems. You will translate stakeholder and clinical needs into system requirements and guide system architecture, interface management, risk management, integration, verification, and validation across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

What you will do

  • Translate user, stakeholder, and clinical needs into clear system-level requirements and design inputs for complex medical devices.

  • Develop and refine system architectures, interfaces, requirements, and verification strategies across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines.

  • Allocate and decompose system requirements using modeling, simulation, engineering budgets, and mathematical techniques.

  • Support concept-phase engineering activities, including trade studies, sensitivity analyses, optimization studies, performance assessments, and design assessments.

  • Drive system integration, verification, and validation activities and resolve complex product design issues using engineering analysis and technical judgment.

  • Contribute to product risk management activities and apply applicable medical device standards, design controls, and risk management practices throughout development.

  • Create and refine engineering documentation, including Design History File documentation, and mentor team members on development procedures and applicable industry standards.

  • Collaborate with clinical, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and engineering partners, including supporting Voice of Customer activities with clinicians, to identify technical risks and advance projects through development and launch.

What you will need

Required qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

  • Minimum 4 years of engineering work experience.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience developing and optimizing system requirements, system designs, and verification strategies.

  • Experience using requirements management software, preferably Jama.

  • Experience with Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods and tools.

  • Knowledge of ISO 13485 and ISO 14971 requirements and their application to medical device development.

  • Experience working with software and/or electrical systems.

  • Familiarity with C++, MATLAB, or scripting languages.

US20 : $107,200 - $178,600 USD Annual

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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 3,056 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$107–179K/yr
  • Massachusetts median$132–220K/yr105 salary ranges
  • US median$136–208K/yr2,219 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $143K, is 18% below the Massachusetts median midpoint ($175K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineering salary ranges in Massachusetts.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 128 open Systems Engineering jobs in Massachusetts and 3,056 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Massachusetts
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 2,417 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,032 of the 3,056 open Systems Engineering jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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