R&D Engineer, Peripheral Vascular

Join a Team That’s Transforming Healthcare Through Innovation

Join Stryker’s Peripheral Vascular division in Irvine, California, as an R&D Engineer, where you’ll have the opportunity to help support innovative medical device technologies designed to address complex vascular conditions. In this role, you’ll gain hands-on R&D experience supporting product development, testing, and design changes for commercialized products while collaborating with cross-functional partners. This is a great opportunity for an early-career engineer to build their technical expertise, learn the medical device development process, and contribute to products that make a meaningful impact on patient care!

To learn more about our Peripheral Vascular portfolio, please click here: Peripheral Vascular | Stryker .

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and verify mechanical components for medical devices under supervision.

• Assist in prototyping and bench testing to verify and validate design concepts and performance.

• Support root cause analysis and resolve technical challenges using data-driven approaches aligned with product requirements.

• Conduct research and feasibility studies to inform product design decisions.

• Translate customer needs into actionable design inputs that guide development.

• Understand product use and clinical procedures to inform design strategy.

• Create and refine engineering documentation in compliance with design control procedures.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management teams.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering.

• 0+ years of work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Internship experience or related coursework in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering.

• Medical device industry exposure through an internship, co-op, capstone project, or relevant academic experience.

• Exposure to technical documentation and the development, execution, or support of test methods.

• Fundamental understanding of mechanical engineering practices and tools.

• Basic knowledge of design principles and standards within a regulated environment (ISO13485 and ISO10555).

• Familiarity with CAD or CAE modeling tools (e.g., SolidWorks, Creo).

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• US15 : $79,900 - $127,500 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.