Stryker Employment Company, LLC

Senior Test Engineer (Hybrid Cary, IL)

3909 Three Oaks Rd, Cary, IL

Full-time · $86k–$143k (as posted)

First seen by offpeak October 23, 2026

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Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Stryker Sage is seeking a highly skilled Test Engineering professional to support the design, development, and validation of innovative medical products. This role plays a critical part in ensuring product safety, efficacy, and performance through advanced test systems and fixtures, while also serving as a technical leader within the organization.

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

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What You Will Do:

Develop, execute, and own comprehensive test plans through an understanding of design requirements in collaboration with quality, design, and test engineering to assess safety, efficacy, and any other product requirements.
Design, develop, and refine mechanical, electrical, and virtual test fixtures for components and sub-systems, ensuring designs meet functional requirements, design inputs, and reliability targets.
Able to leverage laboratory capabilities, including hardware configurations, software integration, and data acquisition systems.
Lead the development of test systems and fixtures that support product development, validation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Analyze test data, investigate failures, and lead root-cause analysis efforts, delivering clear, actionable insights through formal test reports aligned with company standards.
Provide mentorship to junior test team members, technicians, third-party labs, and contractors, acting as a trusted subject matter expert.
Evaluate, recommend, procure, and maintain actuation systems, instrumentation, sensors, and testing technologies to advance testing methods and capabilities.
Act as an internal point of contact on test methods, industry standards, and reliability tools, including statistical analysis, design of experiments, Weibull analysis, stress and strain analysis, FEA, and use, misuse, and abuse testing.

What You Need (Required Qualifications):

Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
2+ years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Test system automation experience
Medical device or regulated industry experience
Understanding of medical device design controls and product development processes

$85,500 - $142,500 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.