Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (Onsite San Jose, CA)

Stryker is seeking a seasoned hardware engineer who owns designs end to end — from schematic capture through layout, bring-up, and verification — and holds the result to a high bar at every stage. The ideal candidate is energized by board-level debugging and root-cause analysis and sweats the details that make or break a board: stackup, impedance control, power integrity, etc. Experience in a regulated industry is essential, and this engineer is comfortable working within design controls, risk management, and standards such as IEC 60601-1. As a Sr. Staff-level contributor, they elevate the broader team — mentoring others, working across firmware, mechanical, and systems, and anticipating sourcing, manufacturability, and lifecycle challenges before they arise.

What You Will Do

• Own end-to-end PCB design from schematic capture through layout, fabrication, assembly, and board bring-up for multi-layer, multi-board medical device systems 

• Lead board-level debugging and root cause analysis using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and thermal imaging 

• Drive signal integrity and power integrity analysis, including impedance-controlled routing, decoupling strategies, plane partitioning, and high-speed interface design (LVDS, USB, HDMI, Ethernet) 

• Develop and refine PCB layout guidelines, stackup definitions, and design rules to meet EMI/EMC and electrical safety requirements per IEC 60601-1 

• Design power distribution architectures at the board level, including DC-DC converters, LDOs, sequencing, inrush management, and grounding/isolation strategies 

• Perform component selection and qualification, including derating analysis, alternate sourcing, and obsolescence management for long-lifecycle medical products 

• Define and execute board-level verification and validation testing, including environmental stress testing, margin testing, and boundary condition characterization

• Collaborate with firmware, mechanical, and systems engineering teams to resolve cross-domain integration issues at the board and system level, while mentoring junior engineers on PCB design best practices, debugging methodology, and design-for-excellence principles (DFM, DFA, DFT) 

• Generate and maintain engineering documentation, including schematics, layout guidelines, test reports, DVP&Rs, risk analysis, and design control records 

What You Need (Required Qualifications)​

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field required 

• 6+ years of experience in electrical hardware design, PCB design, or a related field required 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PCB design tools (Altium, OrCAD, or Allegro), including multi-layer boards

• Proven experience in board bring-up, debugging, and failure analysis

• Strong background in signal integrity, power integrity, and mixed-signal design

• Experience with high-speed interfaces (e.g., USB, Ethernet, LVDS)

• Proficiency with lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, analyzers, thermal tools)

• Experience with board-level power design (DC-DC, LDOs, etc.)

• Knowledge of EMI/EMC design and pre-compliance

• Experience in a regulated industry (medical preferred)

• Familiarity with design controls, risk management, and V&V

• Understanding of DFM/DFA/DFT and manufacturing collaboration

• Experience with embedded systems (MCU/FPGA interfaces)

• Knowledge of PCB thermal management techniques

• Exposure to flex/rigid-flex designs and Linux (nice to have)

$133,400 - $222,300 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.