Staff Embedded & Control Systems Engineer

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We are seeking a Staff Embedded & Control Systems Engineer to design and develop embedded software and control systems for medical devices. In this role, you will contribute to real-time embedded software and control algorithms for complex electromechanical systems, including sensors, actuators, motors, thermal systems, power systems, and multi-board electronics.

You will work across hardware, firmware, and system integration layers to help deliver safe, reliable, high-performance solutions in a regulated medical device environment.

What You Will Do

• Design and develop embedded control systems for electromechanical medical devices.
• Develop and implement real-time control algorithms, including PID control, feedback loops, and state machines.
• Develop firmware for microcontrollers and embedded platforms using bare-metal or RTOS-based approaches.
• Implement communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, RS232, and board-to-board/module-level communication.
• Support hardware/software integration across multi-PCB architectures.
• Perform debugging and root cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and system-level interactions.
• Contribute to system-level design considerations, including signal flow, timing, control loops, power systems, fault handling, and safety protections.
• Support verification and validation activities, including unit, integration, and system-level testing.
• Create and maintain design documentation, including requirements, architecture, risk analysis, test protocols, and design history file deliverables.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in R&D, Quality, Clinical, Marketing, Manufacturing, and Regulatory.
• Translate user, clinical, and product needs into system and control requirements.
• Support regulated software development activities in alignment with design controls, risk management, and applicable medical device standards.
• Design, develop, modify, evaluate, and verify software components for medical devices.
• Participate in code reviews using design principles, coding standards, and software best practices.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline required.
• 4+ years of experience developing embedded software for electromechanical systems required.
• Experience developing software in a regulated medical device environment, including hands-on experience with IEC 62304 required.

What We Would Love That You Have (Preferred Qualifications)

• Strong experience with control systems, including PID control, system modeling, and tuning in real-world applications.
• Demonstrated experience performing multi-domain debugging across hardware, firmware, and system-level interactions.
• Experience working with power systems and safety considerations, including AC/DC systems, fault handling, and system-level protections.
• Experience with C/C++ for embedded systems.
• Experience with Python for testing, scripting, or automation.
• Experience with bare-metal firmware development and/or RTOS-based development.
• Experience with motor control, thermal regulation, sensor integration, actuator control, or power management.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics and PCB designs.
• Experience with ADCs, DACs, amplifiers, sensor interfaces, load cells, pressure sensors, or capacitive sensing.
• Understanding of EMI/EMC considerations.
• Experience using debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD debuggers.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, static/dynamic analysis tools, and requirements/traceability tools such as Jama.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, code reviews, software architecture, and safety-critical design principles.
• Experience with risk management practices, including ISO 14971.
• Familiarity with electrical safety standards such as IEC 60601.
• Ability to evaluate and balance engineering tradeoffs across performance, cost, and reliability.
• Experience contributing to design control documentation, verification testing, regulatory submissions, or audit support.
• Experience working on complex electromechanical medical devices.

$112,900 - $188,100 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.