Senior Product Systems Engineer, R&D

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite 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 Travel Percentage: 10% 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. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.