Senior Principal Engineer, Innovation Lab (Remote)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architecture direction for Innovation Lab initiatives.
• Design, build, and review full-stack software solutions and AI-enabled applications.
• Rapidly prototype new concepts and validate ideas with business stakeholders.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices, and technical governance for the lab.
• Partner across ED&T, cybersecurity, architecture, data, and business teams to accelerate innovation.
• Mentor engineers and help build the lab's long-term technical capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine their applicability to Stryker.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 10 years of progressive software engineering experience, including hands-on delivery and senior technical leadership across complex systems or enterprise technology.
• At least 8 years of senior technical leadership experience as a Chief Engineer, Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, Software Director, Startup CTO, Founding Engineer, or equivalent.
• At least 7 years of deep full-stack experience across front-end, back-end, cloud, API, database, integration, and DevOps technologies, with hands-on mastery of front-end and back-end systems.
• At least 5 years architecting scalable, secure, cloud-native enterprise systems, including distributed systems, data-intensive applications, APIs, integrations, and cloud services.
• At least 3 years of recent applied AI, machine learning, or generative AI experience building AI-enabled applications, prototypes, automations, agents, or internal tools.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with modern languages, frameworks, databases, APIs, and event-driven architectures, including technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Python, SQL, and GraphQL.
• Cloud-native and DevOps experience, including AWS and/or Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, infrastructure as code, secure deployment, and DevSecOps.
• Experience with LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, embeddings, prompt engineering, AI agents, model evaluation, semantic search, or AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience with cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, identity and access management, secure architecture, responsible AI, and enterprise software risk management.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems and data platforms within security, privacy, governance, and compliance constraints.
• Experience in medtech, healthcare, life sciences, regulated software, financial services, aerospace, defense, or another regulated industry.
• Familiarity with regulated software practices, quality systems, design controls, risk management, validation, auditability, traceability, and healthcare data privacy.
• Experience leading innovation labs, advanced engineering, rapid prototyping, product incubation, or enterprise AI teams.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Snowflake, Databricks, ERP, CRM, identity, and BI systems.
• Experience building software for sales, commercial teams, internal operations, customer support, field service, business leaders, or enterprise IT.
• Experience with product discovery, design thinking, lean experimentation, customer research, UX, and prototype validation.
• An advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.

Pay

• Annual U.S. pay ranges listed by pay zone: USN $155,900–$259,700; US5 $163,700–$272,700; US10 $171,500–$285,700; US15 $179,300–$298,700; US20 $187,100–$311,600; US30 $202,700–$337,600.
• The posting directs candidates to a U.S. work location and transparency guide for the pay range applicable to their location.

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing, and tobacco cessation programs.
• Financial benefits include HSA, FSAs, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

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