Senior Product Systems Engineer, R&D

Stryker is seeking a Senior Product Systems Engineer to help shape the future of our Smart OR platform and surgical visualization solutions. Driving the R&D strategy for products inside Stryker intelligent operating rooms. In this role, you will help define next-generation Smart OR solutions by ensuring that integrated hardware, software, imaging, video, and workflow technologies deliver meaningful value to surgeons, care teams, and patients. Partnering across hardware, software, imaging, video processing, and user experience teams, you will translate customer, clinical, and business needs into system requirements and product features.

Workplace Flexibility: This is a hybrid role requiring the candidate to be within commuting distance to San Jose, CA. The work schedule is structured to support flexibility, with in-office presence required 3 days/week and remote work available the rest of the week. To qualify, candidates must be able to commute to the facility as needed.

What You Will Do:

• Contribute to the definition and prioritization of product capabilities for next-generation Smart OR and surgical visualization solutions.

• Contribute to system architectures and define integration strategies, and interfaces across connected operating room technologies.

• Own product and system requirements, ensuring traceability from customer needs through verification and validation.

• Translate surgeon, customer, business, and regulatory needs into requirements, workflows, and product capabilities.

• Support key 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.

What You Need:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, systems engineering, biomedical engineering or a related technical field.

• Minimum of 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.

Preferred:

• Experience developing regulated medical devices or related surgical visualization, endoscopy, or operating room integration systems, with knowledge of applicable standards such as ISO 13485 and ISO 14971.

• Experience developing complex hardware/software systems in a regulated or structured environment, applying systems engineering practices including requirements management, interface definition, verification, and traceability, 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, with familiarity with interfaces and standards such as HDMI, SDI, DisplayPort, USB, and Ethernet-based video.

$101,000 - $168,400 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.