Electrical Design Engineer

Stryker

Cork, Ireland

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

This role will be focused on designing small, high speed, high precision motor hardware and its circuitry. You will be responsible for the creation of embedded systems requirements/architecture for new products leading to engineering High Speed Motors and Motorcontroller PCB assemblies.

You will have the opportunity to work with multiple technologies including FPGA’s, motor controllers, mixed analog/digital circuits, embedded microcontrollers/microprocessors, sensors, and camera/EM based navigation.
You will perform a wide variety of technical work in planning and design of electro-mechanical, embedded hardware electronic circuits and PCB design which will lead to new or improved products/product lines under marketing, cost, time and regulatory constraints for medical devices that supports our Neurosurgical needs.
Through the design process, you will complete analysis for electromagnetic compliance (EMC), reliability, safety, cost and design for manufacturing/assembly/test.
You will assist in evaluating vendor capability to support development and test fixture development.
You will work with our technical leadership and project management team on breaking down work, scheduling, risks, and project updates.
You will lead or mentor design and development of electrical components, sub-systems, and/or systems for medical devices.
You will apply and mentor others on advanced engineering theories, principles, and concepts.
You will conduct, design, and select advanced prototyping and testing.
You will lead and guide in correction of complex product design issues.
You will conduct technology exploration and influence application in the business.
You will translate user needs to design inputs/specifications and produce complex system level designs independently.
You will develop a number of invention disclosures, patents or trade secrets.
You will independently make design tradeoff decisions while designing multiple components of the system.

Business Responsibilities:

Contribute to competitive and market strategy by demonstrating in-depth knowledge of the market, customer dynamics and competitive offerings.
Apply strong understanding of clinical procedures to enhance product development.
Contribute to and execute customer facing activities like voice of customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
Demonstrates financial acumen.

Med Device Compliance:

Mentor others as a business unit expert on the usage of industry standards, including design requirements and test strategies per applicable regulations.
Lead others to create and refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file and creates more progressive technical content.
Contribute to R&D procedures and development of industry standards working closely with cross-functional business units.

General Responsibilities:

Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success, both leading and influencing other leaders on the team.
Identify and lead the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.
Execute and lead segments of complex product development to advance projects through the design/development/launch process.
Contribute to complex product development through release and lead one technical area of expertise.
Hold self and others accountable to deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities.
Mentor, develop and inspire others in current and future roles.

What you will need (strongly desired):

Technical Skills:

Ability to lead or teach electrical engineers in electrical design.
Advanced understanding of the design of complex components and sub-systems.
Ability to apply advanced circuit and electrical system test methods.
Advanced understanding of manufacturing and testing methods.
Ability to apply standard technologies used in industry.
Ability to perform complex electrical stackups.
Advanced understanding of statistical methods.
Advanced knowledge of sub-system, system, and environmental interactions.

Preferred Skills/Engineering tools:

Understands the advanced theory and methods of Motor Design and Control and can lead others in its application while demonstrating:
- Experience and expertise using electronic hardware lab tools for development of design (e.g. Oscilloscope, Electronic Loads, Function Generator, Spectrum Analyzer, Environmental Chambers).
- Experience and expertise with PCB Schematic & Layout process and tools (e.g. PSpice, LTspice, OrCAD, Mentor Graphics, Altium, etc.).
- Experience and expertise with Motor design simulation tools (e.g. Ansys Maxwell, Ansys Motor-CAD, Motorsolve, etc.).
- Experience and expertise in autoclavable electro-mechanical designs.