Principal Portfolio Lead Electrical Engineer

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Stryker is seeking to hire a Principal Portfolio Lead Engineer to support Stryker's Interventional Spine division. As a Principal Portfolio Lead Engineer, you will largely operate to enhance our research portfolio, engage in VOC (sales, marketing & customers), and support the design engineering team to launch products. You will develop and maintain expert-level awareness of the customers served by the portfolio, their procedures, and the technologies that serve their needs. Identify/assess potential product opportunities through application of multi-disciplinary engineering judgement and by planning and conducting (or directing through assigned Industrial Designers) Customer Centered Design (CCD) best practices and interactions.

This role is hybrid in Portage, MI with the expectation to be in office 3 days a week.

Check out our IVS Portfolio: Stryker Interventional Spine

What you will do:

• Champion, teach, and systematize advanced engineering principles to expand technical capabilities across the organization.

• Leading voice of customer activities directly with clinicians in collaboration with marketing and sales.

• Architect product and platform development spanning multiple technologies, product lines, and business areas.

• Anticipate technology trends/threats and define strategies to convert them into opportunities.

• Solve complex, cross-disciplinary technical problems requiring advanced analysis and innovation.

• Contribute to intellectual property strategy through invention, patents, and technical review boards.

• Serve as independent reviewer and mentor in the design review process, ensuring rigor and compliance.

• Lead cross-functional strategy by aligning engineering with regulatory requirements, technology roadmaps, and industry standards.

What you Need:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or related discipline

• 8+ years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years leading VOC events with clinicians, applying CCD principles, and driving early-stage research

• Experience developing and delivering digital platforms

• Advanced expertise in DFM, Reliability Engineering, and Systems Design

• Proven track record of commercially successful medical device designs, leveraging Solid Modeling and CAE tools for optimization

Travel Percentage: 20%

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.