
Design Engineer, R&D - Mechanical
Portage, MIJob$70–111K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Stryker is hiring a Design Engineer to support product and sustaining engineering for Stryker Medical’s Acute Care Business Unit. The role focuses on mechanical changes to medical-device components, including production support, quality improvements, and line extensions. The engineer works with cross-functional teams and contributes to design documentation, risk management, prototyping, and bench testing. This is an on-site position in Portage, Michigan.
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Full job description
Stryker is seeking to hire a Design Engineer to support Stryker Medical’s Acute Care Business Unit. This role is focused on product/sustaining engineering.
This is an on-site role based in Portage, MI; candidates must live within commuting distance and be on-site.
Know more about the Acute Care Product Line you will work on: Stryker Acute Care (https://www.stryker.com/us/en/acute-care.html)
What you will do
The Design Engineer - Mechanical works with Manufacturing, Customer and Operations Quality, Materials, Regulatory Affairs, Content Management, Clinical Sciences, and Marketing teams to ensure project success. On the product engineering team, the engineer designs, develops, modifies, evaluates, and verifies changes to mechanical components for medical devices. This includes:
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Working on problems for production support, quality improvements, and line extensions. This includes conducting and supporting problem-solving efforts, root cause analysis, and identification and evaluation of potential solutions.
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Demonstrating ownership and integrity of work, a spirit of volunteerism, a passion for excellence and our products, and a hands-on approach to engineering.
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Interpreting and understanding the product’s intended use, clinical procedures, customer needs and design inputs.
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Creating and/or refining engineering documentation, such as the Design History File and the Device Master Record.
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Following, learning, and contributing to R&D procedures, such as design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.
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Assisting prototyping efforts and bench testing.
What you need
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
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0-2 Years of experience.
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Working knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering practices and design principles.
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Working knowledge of design and concept generation, and engineering analysis utilizing CAD and CAE tools, Creo Preferred.
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Working knowledge of materials and manufacturing methods.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
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Puerto Rico : $64,400 - $94,400 USD Annual
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USN : $69,500 - $110,900 USD Annual
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US5 : $73,000 - $116,400 USD Annual
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US10 : $76,500 - $122,000 USD Annual
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US15 : $79,900 - $127,500 USD Annual
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US20 : $83,400 - $133,100 USD Annual
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US30 : $90,400 - $144,200 USD Annual
View the U.S. work location and transparency guide (https://view.stryker.com/viewer/fcd609f31e39eac44598615224ec7216?iid=69deda99678eb495e0710914#1) to find the pay range for your location.
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 2,830 open Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$70–111K/yr
- Michigan median$78–135K/yr35 salary ranges
- US median$110–160K/yr1,795 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $90K, is 22% below the Michigan median midpoint ($115K) — in the lowest quarter of Design Engineer salary ranges in Michigan.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 72 open Design Engineer jobs in Michigan and 2,830 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
- Ford Motor Company9 open
- Kiewit7 open
- Actalent5 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,288 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,060 of the 2,830 open Design Engineer jobs (73%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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