
Internal Clinical Research Associate
Waltham, MAResearch$87–145K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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The Internal Clinical Research Associate supports medical device clinical studies from start-up through closeout. The role contributes to trial operations, study documentation, device accountability, data review, and regulatory compliance. It supports multiple studies and helps maintain study quality, data integrity, and inspection readiness while coordinating with investigator sites and cross-functional study teams.
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Internal Clinical Research Associate
Waltham, MA
Join a clinical research team that supports the execution of medical device clinical studies from study start-up through closeout. As an Internal Clinical Research Associate, you will contribute to clinical trial operations, study documentation, device accountability, data review, and regulatory compliance activities that help ensure studies are conducted according to established quality and regulatory standards.
What You Will Do
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Support site qualification, activation, monitoring, and closeout activities across multiple clinical studies.
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Manage investigational device accountability, including product serialization, inventory tracking, shipment coordination, and maintenance of device records.
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Maintain Trial Master Files and essential study documentation to support inspection readiness and regulatory compliance.
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Review, organize, and maintain informed consent forms, case report forms, and other study-related documents.
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Perform remote source data verification and study data review activities to support data quality and protocol compliance.
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Develop and maintain study metrics, reports, and dashboards that provide visibility into study progress and operational performance.
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Coordinate clinical trial registration activities and support audit and inspection preparedness efforts.
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Create study communications, newsletters, and documentation that support investigator sites and cross-functional study teams.
What You Will Need
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, or a related scientific discipline.
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0+ years of experience
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in clinical research, clinical trial operations, or clinical study administration.
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Experience working under Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.
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Experience using electronic clinical trial databases, clinical trial management systems, or related research software.
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Experience supporting clinical trial audits, regulatory inspections, or regulatory submission activities.
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Experience with clinical trial registration platforms and study reporting processes.
US20 : $87,000 - $145,100 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 569 open Clinical Research Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$87–145K/yr
- US median$75–175K/yr209 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $116K, is 13% below the US median midpoint ($133K) — in the middle half of Clinical Research Associate salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 17 open Clinical Research Associate jobs in Massachusetts and 569 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Clinical Research Associate postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 514 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 126 of the 569 open Clinical Research Associate jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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