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Stryker · Medical Devices

Senior Quality Engineer

  • Kalamazoo, MI
  • On-site
  • Full-time
  • Senior & Principal
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Pay$89K–$149Ka year · employer provided
EmploymentFull-time
LocationKalamazoo, MIOn-site
LevelSenior & Principal
FunctionQuality AssuranceQuality
Deadline

Open until filled

The role

Work Flexibility: Onsite

Stryker is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to support product and process quality across manufacturing operations for Instruments in Portage, Michigan. In this role, you will partner with operations, engineering, suppliers, and quality teams to drive compliance, resolve quality issues, support new product introductions and manufacturing scale up activities, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure products meet applicable regulatory and quality requirements.

What you need

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline.
  • Minimum 2 years of quality engineering, manufacturing engineering, or related engineering experience.
  • Experience supporting non-conformance investigations, corrective and preventive actions, or quality management systems.

Preferred Qualificationsnice to have

  • Experience in the medical device industry.
  • Experience analyzing quality data and applying statistical methods to support manufacturing or process improvements.
  • Six Sigma Green Belt or Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
  • Experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
  • Experience using metrology equipment such as calipers, micrometers, pin gauges, or coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

USN: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual

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Skills named in this posting

What you'll do

  1. Partner with manufacturing, engineering, and quality teams to monitor and improve product and process quality performance.
  1. Support the transfer, launch, and scale-up of new products and manufacturing processes, partnering cross-functionally to establish robust quality systems and ensure successful production readiness.
  1. Support or lead investigations and timely closure of non-conformances and corrective and preventive actions, including root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions.
  2. Review and disposition nonconforming materials and products through Material Review Board processes.
  3. Collaborate with suppliers to address quality issues, manage supplier corrective actions, and support supplier quality improvement initiatives.
  4. Evaluate and support manufacturing, supplier, and engineering changes to ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.
  5. Monitor quality performance indicators, analyze trends, and implement actions to address identified risks and improvement opportunities.
  1. Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality enhancement, scrap reduction, efficiency gains, and cost savings.
  1. Support process validation, equipment qualification, inspection methods, measurement system analysis, and statistical process controls.
  2. Participate in internal and external audits, complaint investigations, field actions, and continuous improvement projects across manufacturing operations.

Pay

$89,300 – $148,800 a year

Employer provided
How this compares

Where you'll work

Kalamazoo, MIOn-siteOpen in Maps (opens in a new tab)

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Travel Percentage: 20%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.

Job intelligence

The context around this role

Live data · October 14, 2026

Salary intelligence

How the pay compares

This role's midpoint is 4% below the US median for Quality Assurance roles at this level.

This roleEmployer provided

$89,300 to $148,800 a year

Senior & Principal roles in Michigan11 roles publishing pay

Middle half $104,000 to $119,000, median $119,000

Senior & Principal roles in the US221 roles publishing pay

Middle half $105,500 to $142,000, median $124,500
Annual base pay
Annual base payLowMedianHigh
This role$89,300—$148,800
Michigan$104,000$119,000$119,000
All US$105,500$124,500$142,000

This role: Stryker's own published range. Comparisons: the base pay employers published on open Quality Assurance roles at the same level on Regulatory Jobs, October 14, 2026. Nothing is estimated.

Career trajectory

Where this role sits in Quality Assurance

The general path across 598 open Quality Assurance roles on Regulatory Jobs, with the titles they carry most. Not Stryker's own promotion track.

  1. One step back

    Associate & Specialist

    Often: Quality Engineer · Intern

    $80K median156 open

  2. This role

    Senior & Principal

    Often: Quality Engineer · Supplier Quality Engineer

    $125K median269 open

  3. Next step

    Manager

    Often: Manager, Quality Assurance · QA Supervisor

    $156K median92 open

  4. Later

    Director

    Often: Associate Director · Associate Director, GMP Operational Quality

    $211K median69 open

  5. Later

    VP & Executive

    Often: AVP · Executive Director Quality, Cell & Gene Therapy

    $293K median12 open

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Skills DNA

What this role leans on

How many of the posting's 22 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.

GMP and compliance: 4 linesLab testing and methods: 3 linesInvestigations and CAPA: 4 linesValidation and qualification: 1 lineQuality systems and risk: 8 linesCollaboration and leadership: 5 linesGMPLab testingInvestigationsValidationQuality systemsTeamwork
  • Quality systems and risk8
  • Collaboration and leadership5
  • GMP and compliance4
  • Investigations and CAPA4
  • Lab testing and methods3
  • Validation and qualification1

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  • Regulatory9 17%
  • Compliance & Safety2 4%

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  • Associate & Specialist18 33%
  • Manager6 11%
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