Summer 2023 - Software Engineering Internship - Redmond

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are seeking a talented Software Engineering Intern to help us achieve our mission of making healthcare better! As a member of the Research & Development engineering team, you will perform engineering in applied research, technology development, and/or design of new products. In this position, you will architect, design, and develop software components with input from leads and senior engineers. Work includes the concept, prototype, design, testing, modification, evaluation, and documentation of software components and systems for use in biomedical devices.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY: What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Assist with prototyping and bench testing.
• Support problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against requirements.
• Under supervision, conduct research and studies to support product design.
• Code development time/resource estimation to support projects.
• Generate and review the necessary documents with project teams (requirements/design/architecture/bugs/test).

Business Responsibilities:

• Interpret customer needs and understands design inputs.
• Understand the product's intended use and clinical procedures.

Med Device Compliance:

• Understand fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which align with regulatory requirements.
• With supervision, create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file per company design control procedures.
• Learn R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.

General Responsibilities:

• Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success and contribute to the project as a team member.
• Learn procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.
• Work on problems in limited scope; purposefully learn while gaining experience.
• Design, develop, modify, evaluate and verify software components for medical devices.
• In code reviews apply design principals, coding standards and best practices.
• Demonstrate ownership and integrity of work.
• Build stable relationships.
• Participate in code reviews applying design principals, coding standards and best practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: What you will need (strongly desired):

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages:

• Exposure to programming skills in C and C++.

Design and Development Skills:

• Experience with integrated development environments (IDE) for projects.
• Experience with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software.
• Integration and deployment processes using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) technologies.

Software Process Skills:

• Software Development Life Cycle processes.
• Application Lifecycle Management/Traceability tools.
• Regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

Preferred Skills / Engineering tools:

• Understands the theory and methods of embedded software development and can apply them under minimal supervision.
• Experience with Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
• Experience working with microprocessors and/or microcontrollers (e.g. Raspberry Pi, Arduino).
• Exposure to scripting and automation using Python and shell scripting.
• Exposure to tools used for electrical troubleshooting and measurement (e.g. oscilloscope, logic analyzer).
• Exposure to electrical schematics.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: What you will need (must have):

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline.

Travel Percentage: 0%

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.