--- title: Senior / Staff Quality Engineer at Stryker description: Stryker is hiring for the Senior / Staff Quality Engineer role in San Jose, CA. Full-time, hybrid role. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-staff-quality-engineer-at-stryker-01a0cc24-4a0b-74d9-9859-50b11576e24f date: 2026-09-28T04:22:12Z og_description: Join Stryker as Senior / Staff Quality Engineer in San Jose, CA. Pays $133.4K–$222.3K per year. Full-time, hybrid role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/766ekj.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Stryker | | **Location** | San Jose, CA (Hybrid) | | **Salary** | $133.4K/yr - $222.3K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Sep 22, 2026 | ## Description Work Flexibility: Hybrid **Stryker** is hiring a **Senior Staff Quality Engineer** for our **Endoscopy** division in **San Jose, CA** to provide quality engineering leadership and technical guidance in quality assurance, control, and preventative activities with a focus on continuous improvement of products and processes. Advocate and lead the execution of initiatives and projects to enhance quality performance within the business and for our customers. Mentor and provide technical direction across multiple areas of expertise. Ensure compliance with regulation and standards. **What you will do** - Work closely with customers, sales/marketing/field personnel, and cross-functional teams to address top quality issues. - Mentors, provides oversight and approval of NC/CAPA, activist and high-level expert in problem-solving and root-causing activities. - Leads quality initiatives or projects. - Recognized process owner, with expertise across multiple quality areas. - Provides input into local, global, and corporate processes, represents function on review boards and teams. - Review and approval of change management activities, challenges effectiveness and drives strong review. - Interpret KPI trends, drive continuous improvement process. - Advocate of Human Factor practices, proficiency in the science of identification of mitigation. - Engage in and may lead internal and external audits with regulatory representatives, providing effective narrative and description of topic of expertise and overview of the business. May manage audit logistics and/or preparation. - Responsible for initiation, internal containment, and support of ship and product holds for potential product escapes. - Coach and mentor others in quality topics and activities. **Required** - Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering or related discipline. - Minimum 6 years of experience in Quality and/or Research & Development (R&D) within the medical device industry, supporting product development, design controls, risk management, quality systems, and post-market surveillance activities. - Strong knowledge of medical device quality and regulatory requirements, including ISO 13485, Good Documentation Practices (GDP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), post-market compliance requirements, and U.S. and international medical device regulations. - Experience leading and supporting root cause investigations, nonconformance management, CAPA activities, complaint investigations, and post-market quality initiatives to drive continuous improvement and regulatory compliance. **Preferred** - Masters degree - Experience in interacting with regulatory agencies (FDA, MoH, TUV, etc.) - Strong knowledge of Quality Concepts (e.g. Risk Management, CAPA, Audits, Statistics). - ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and/or Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) certification preferred. - Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred, with demonstrated application of continuous improvement and process optimization methodologies. $133,400 - $222,300 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. ## Skills - Open Web Application Security Project (Owasp) - Non-Conformance Management - Good Distribution Practice (Gdp) - Investigation - Certified Quality Engineer - Process Optimization - Problem Solving - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - Good Manufacturing Practices - Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - Risk Management - Root Cause Analysis - External Audit - Logistics - Medical Devices - ISO 13485 - Continuous Improvement Process - BCSI Good Documentation Practices - Statistics - Post-Market Surveillance - New Product Development - Good Manufacturing Practice (Gmp) - Design Controls (Medical Devices) - Auditing - Lean Six Sigma Black Belt - Corrective And Preventive Action (Capa) - Certified Reliability Engineer - Medical Device Regulations - FDA Regulations - Change Management - American Society for Quality (Asq) Certification - Regulatory Compliance ## How to Apply [Apply for this position](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-staff-quality-engineer-at-stryker-01a0cc24-4a0b-74d9-9859-50b11576e24f?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Related - [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown)