Senior Development Engineer

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Senior Development Engineer leads design and development efforts for gastrointestinal endoscopy devices or major subsystems, driving activities throughout the product life cycles from concept to product release to sustaining. This role owns design control deliverables, including requirements definition, risk management activities, and verification and validation strategies.

The position provides technical leadership within cross functional teams, supports design reviews, and ensures alignment across engineering, quality, regulatory, clinical, product management, project management, and manufacturing functions. The Senior Development Engineer is expected to proactively identify technical risks, influence design decisions, mentor other engineers, drive forward progress towards milestones, and achieve compliance to applicable standards and regulations.

What You'll Do As a Senior Development Engineer

Lead design and development of medical devices or major subsystems activities throughout the product life cycles from concept to product release to sustaining.
Own design control deliverables, including requirements definition, risk management, and V&V strategy.
Develop and execute verification and validation plans aligned with regulatory and quality requirements.
Identify technical risks (threats and opportunities) and proactively drive strategies to minimize threat impact or maximize opportunity gain
Make sound technical trade offs balancing performance, quality, cost, and schedule. Integrate input from technical, manufacturing, and marketing disciplines. Create and drive a product development plan according to established company practice and all associated support documentation.
Generate detailed, high quality technical documentation to communicate designs and decisions. Must be able to present updates to technical and non-technical audiences (project meetings, board meetings, etc.) This position may be required to solely represent the design function in key meetings.
Provide technical leadership within cross functional teams. Work closely with the Design Engineer to support all Intellectual Property activities such as documenting design ideas in an IP Assessment, confirming freedom to operate, reviewing patent filings, and discussing patents with internal or external patent attorneys.
Integrate input from clinical, manufacturing, quality, and marketing disciplines.
Mentor Development Engineer I and II team members. As resources allow, supervise an engineering co-op in their daily and weekly work responsibilities.
Identify and implement improvements to internal processes and development practices.

The Experience, Abilities And Skills Needed

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 5+ years of relevant work experience with the following:
Experience leading device or subsystem development from concept to release
Ownership of design control deliverables and DHF content
Experience developing and executing V&V strategies
Experience identifying and mitigating technical risk
The Preferred Experience, Abilities And Skills

Preference for technical ownership of complex projects
Experience integrating input from clinical, manufacturing, and quality disciplines
Interest in mentoring less experienced engineers
Comfort making design trade offs with limited data
Desire to influence technical decisions within programs
Advanced technical problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to make sound decisions using good enough information
Strong written and verbal communication with technical and non technical audiences
Mentorship and technical leadership skills
Ability to balance quality, cost, and schedule considerations

What STERIS Offers

At STERIS, we invest in our employees and their families for the long term! STERIS wouldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. We share our success together with you by rewarding you for your hard work and achievements.

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

Competitive Pay
Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays.
Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) with a company match
Long/Short term disability coverage
Parental Leave
Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
Continued training and educations programs
Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

Pay range for this opportunity is $93,000 - $114,000. This position is eligible for bonus participation.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits

Open until position is filled.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by

60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.

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