Job Description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Senior Medical Packaging Engineer

Tempe, AZ

Join a role focused on developing and improving sterile packaging systems for medical devices. This position contributes to packaging design, validation, and regulatory alignment, supporting both new product development and sustaining product updates. You will work across functions to ensure packaging solutions meet quality, performance, and compliance requirements.

Work Flexibility:
Hybrid: candidates must reside within commuting distance of Tempe, AZ and be able to work onsite several days per week.

What You Will Do

• Design and develop sterile packaging components and systems, translating user needs into engineering specifications
• Create and execute packaging validation and verification protocols in alignment with regulatory standards
• Analyze test data, identify design issues, and implement corrective actions to improve packaging performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory) to deliver project milestones
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including specifications and design history records
• Coordinate supplier activities to support packaging design, materials, and production readiness
• Lead root cause investigations for packaging issues and implement sustainable solutions
• Train production teams and support implementation of new packaging processes and configurations

What You Will Need

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or related disciplines
• Minimum 2 years of experience designing and testing packaging in a regulated environment

Preferred

• Experience in medical device or regulated industry packaging
• Experience with packaging validation, sterilization methods, or regulatory standards
• Experience developing test protocols and analyzing validation data
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in product development environments

• $77,700 - $129,500 USD Annual

Travel Percentage: NoneStryker 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.