Senior Software Engineer, Applications

It's Time to Join Stryker!

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your software engineering talent in a domain that is shaping the future of surgery?

As a Senior Software Engineer, Applications on Stryker’s Mako SmartRobotics team, you will help design and develop application software for robotic-assisted surgery products. This role supports hands-on product development for robotic bone preparation and cutting features, including real-time visual updates, tool movement, and communication with embedded software.

You will work closely with software engineers, product owners, systems engineers, software testers, surgeons, marketing partners, and other cross-functional stakeholders to develop safe, robust, and user-friendly software for market-leading medical technology.

This is a hybrid/onsite role, with regular onsite work required to support hands-on interaction with robotic systems, testing, development, and lab activities.

Learn more about Mako SmartRobotics:

https://www.stryker.com/us/en/joint-replacement/systems/Mako_SmartRobotics_Overview.html

What You Will Do

As a Senior Software Engineer, Applications, you will design, develop, test, and document software for robotic-assisted surgery applications. You will contribute to new feature development, support existing applications, and participate in refactoring legacy code as needed.

You will:

• Design and develop software components based on defined requirements, architecture, design principles, and coding standards.
• Develop application software that supports robotic bone preparation and cutting features, including visual updates, tool movement, and interaction with embedded software.
• Translate software requirements into design, implementation, testing, and documentation deliverables.
• Participate in Agile development activities, including sprint planning, estimation, reviews, and team ceremonies.
• Create, update, and maintain software engineering documentation in accordance with R&D procedures and the Quality Management System.
• Follow defined software development lifecycle procedures to support software quality, including code reviews, unit testing, component testing, code analysis, and defect management.
• Collaborate with software engineers, product owners, systems engineers, software testers, surgeons, marketing, quality, and project management partners.
• Support hands-on testing and integration activities with robotic systems.
• Participate in lab activities, including cadaver labs, to support feature feedback, testing, and validation of robotic-assisted surgery workflows.
• Support integration, troubleshooting, and refinement of application software within complex robotic-assisted surgery systems.
• Execute segments of complex product development work with minimal supervision while aligning technical priorities with business and project objectives.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline is required.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience is required.
• Experience with C++ is required

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C++.
• Experience with Qt/QML for UI development.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, Perforce, GitHub, and/or GitLab.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle in an Agile development environment.
• Experience with software engineering tools and practices such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, memory management, unit testing, code coverage, CI/CD, security, and task, defect, or requirements management.
• Knowledge of software architecture design, including design patterns, software modeling, and maintainable application design.
• Strong knowledge of linear algebra, including matrix transforms.
• Experience with computational geometry, computer graphics, 2D/3D transformations, triangle meshes, or related mathematical concepts.
• Experience in medical imaging, image processing, computer vision, algorithm development, computer-assisted surgery, or robotics.
• Experience developing biomedical software or software within a regulated environment.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners such as systems engineering, software testing, product management, marketing, clinical users, or quality teams.
• Ability to work onsite/hybrid to support hands-on robotic system development, testing, and lab activities.
• $89,300 - $148,800 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.