Staff Product Safety Engineer

Stryker Ireland, Ltd.

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Portage, Michigan Grand Rapids, Michigan Until 9/27/2026 4+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted July 29, 2026 Last posted July 29, 2026
Job description
Work Flexibility: Onsite

What You Will Do

  • Lead Product Safety Programs for complex R&D projects within the Surgical Technologies business unit, ensuring safety requirements are integrated throughout product development.

  • Collaborate with leadership and influencing technical and organizational safety initiatives across business units.

  • Ensure Regulatory Compliance with U.S. and international electrical and mechanical safety standards, regulations, and certifications.

  • Direct Safety Testing Activities by supporting laboratory personnel, developing test plans, and ensuring compliance testing meets third-party certification requirements.

  • Collaborate with External Certification Bodies including NRTLs and other organizations to achieve and maintain product certifications.

  • Provide Product Safety technical education, mentorship, and frameworks that support the growth of early-career Product Safety Engineers.

  • Promote a Strong Safety Culture by embedding product safety, compliance, and industry best practices across engineering and design teams.

  • Provide Strategic Technical Leadership by resolving complex safety challenges, supporting product lifecycle activities, consulting on compliance issues, and shaping future technology roadmaps.

What You Need (Required Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related Engineering degree

  • 4+ years of engineering experience

  • Prior experience leading Product Safety Programs for complex R&D projects, ensuring safety requirements are integrated throughout product development.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Possess an understanding of IEC standards and understanding of compliance or related regulatory compliance standards.

  • Viewed as a divisional resource in area of expertise.

  • Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.

  • Competent with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.).

  • Demonstrated competence and an intermediate level of expertise in product design theory and application as applied specifically to electrical hardware and architecture, microcontroller, microprocessor, wireless technologies, embedded systems but also familiarity with mechanical components and products.

  

 

$89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual

  

 

Travel Percentage: 10%

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.

About this role

Summary

Lead safety programs, ensure compliance, collaborate on safety standards, and support product lifecycle.

Job title

Staff Product Safety Engineer

Experience level

4+ years

Minimum experience

4+ years exp

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Onsite in Portage or Grand Rapids, Michigan, no remote work

Salary

$89k–$149k

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

electrical engineeringsafety programsregulatory standardstest plansproduct design

Preferred skills

IEC standardsregulatory compliancecommunicationelectrical hardwareembedded systems

Specializations

product safetyelectrical engineeringregulatory compliancetest activitiesrisk management
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Portage, MI, USA

On-site City

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

On-site City