Senior Staff Engineer, Embedded Software

About the role

Stryker is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer for its SFTC-PV team in Gurugram, with onsite work. The engineer provides technical leadership for the architecture, design, development, integration, verification and lifecycle support of embedded software for innovative medical-device platforms. The role combines deep hands-on expertise in real-time embedded development, low-level software, motor-control applications and hardware–software integration with broad technical ownership, mentoring and decision-making across multiple projects.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, testing, release and maintenance of embedded software for medical-device and electromechanical systems, and own critical technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Define software architecture, interfaces, technology roadmaps, reusable platforms, engineering standards and modernization strategies.
• Develop and review production-quality firmware and low-level software in C and C++ for ARM microcontrollers, microprocessors, DSPs and FPGA platforms.
• Architect closed-loop control solutions such as motor-control and PID algorithms with hard real-time performance.
• Lead board bring-up, debugging and root-cause analysis using JTAG/SWD debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and protocol analyzers.
• Establish unit, integration, system, automated, hardware-in-the-loop, code-coverage, static-analysis and regression-test strategies.
• Lead architecture, design, code, risk and technical readiness reviews, and drive estimation, risk management, sprint planning and CI/CD practices.
• Mentor engineers, coach teams and influence global, cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Typically 12-14 years of professional software-development experience, including embedded-product development and leadership of complex or safety-critical systems.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers and communicate with senior stakeholders in a global, matrixed environment.

Required skills

• Expert-level embedded C and C++, with production-quality software under strict resource, timing, safety and reliability constraints.
• Microcontroller/microprocessor architectures, real-time operating systems, embedded Linux, BSPs, bootloaders, device drivers and hardware–software integration.
• Requirements engineering, software design, verification, risk management, configuration management and version control.
• Good to have: Agile, Git, CI/CD, static analysis, model-based design (MATLAB/Simulink), HIL, and medical-device standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601 and FDA expectations.