Staff Engineer, Advanced Quality
StrykerCork, Ireland
Posted April 16, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com and careers.stryker.com. Facts: ● 2023 Sales: $20.5 billion ● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies ● Employees: 52,000 worldwide ● 40 years of sales growth leading up to 2020 ● 44+ Manufacturing and R&D Locations Worldwide ● $1.4 billion spent on research and development in 2023 ● ~12,900 patents owned globally in 2023 ● Products sold in ~75 countries ● Fortune 500 Company ● 7 consecutive years as one of Fortune's World's Best Workplaces Stryker’s social media community guidelines: https://www.stryker.com/content/m/legal/social-media-community-guidelines/en/index.html Notice Regarding Employee Conduct on Facebook/LinkedIn Meta/LinkedIn does not permit employers to verify or validate “employees” in the (META: “Works at” LinkedIn: “Experience”) section of users’ profiles. Please be aware that the views expressed by individuals on their personal accounts and do not necessarily represent the views of our company. If you encounter any issues with a person claiming to be our employee, we recommend using the “Report Profile” feature. If you’d like to report concerns to our Ethics Hotline, you may do so at: https://app.convercent.com/en-us/LandingPage/b6bb4e84-9fcb-ea11-a974-000d3ab9f296
Job Description
Partner with Engineering and Advanced Operations to define design requirements and develop manufacturing processes to support new product development projects. Lead risk management activities to ensure the highest level of product and process quality.
Requirements
- Develop quality assurance documentation to support new product development process and regulatory submissions.
- Lead quality system maintenance by identifying and correcting deficiencies in procedures and practices.
- Partner with cross-functional project teams to lead product and/or process design and development activities.
- Lead risk management activities for new product development projects.
- Evaluate overall residual risk for products prior to launch and present final risk/benefit justification to executive leadership.
- Present risks associated with the product use during Design Reviews and track the design, documentation, and manufacturing process mitigate those issues throughout the development process.
- Partner with cross-functional project teams to define design verification and validation test requirements that ensure appropriate objective evidence is available to support the acceptance criteria.
- Partner with Advanced Operations in the development of manufacturing processes for new products.
- Utilize standard statistical analysis and problem-solving techniques to determine product acceptance limits, establish process parameters, resolve quality problems, etc.
- Develop, review, and approve inspection plans, routers, and product drawings for new products.
- Support product design transfers to internal and/or external manufacturing facilities.
- Provide support and direction for other Quality Engineers.
- Evaluate predicate products for relevant quality issues that may impact new product development projects.
- Analyze and define critical quality attributes for product and process through risk analysis techniques. Participate in collection of initial market feedback on new products and address early concerns.
- Contribute to the completion of final design verification and validation reports by providing concise conclusions with statistical validity and graphical support