

New · posted Nov 5
Stryker · Medical Devices
Senior Staff Medical Writer
- Remote, US
- Remote
- Full-time
- Senior & Principal
The role
Work Flexibility: Remote
Stryker is hiring a Senior Staff Medical Writer for our Neurovascular Division. This is a remote position within the United States.
As the Senior Staff Medical Writer, you will lead the development of clinical evidence strategies and scientific documentation that support regulatory submissions, market access initiatives, and product lifecycle decisions. This position partners closely with Regulatory Affairs, Research and Development, Clinical, Marketing, and Quality teams to ensure clinical evidence is effectively evaluated, communicated, and applied throughout the product lifecycle.
What you need
Required
- Master of Science degree in a health, clinical, biological science, biomedical, engineering, or related scientific field.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in clinical affairs, regulatory affairs, quality, medical writing, clinical evaluation, post-market surveillance, or related field.
- Minimum 2 years of experience authoring clinical evaluations for medical devices.
- Experience conducting literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and scientific analysis using clinical and/or technical data.
- Experience supporting regulatory submissions and product lifecycle activities within a regulated healthcare industry.
Preferrednice to have
- Doctoral degree (PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent) in a health or science-related discipline.
- Experience supporting global medical device regulatory requirements, including clinical evaluation, post-market clinical follow up, and market access activities.
- Experience applying global regulatory requirements, including ISO, FDA, and international regulations
- Experience managing complex cross-functional projects within the medical device industry.
What you'll do
- Lead the development and execution of clinical evidence strategies for new product development and lifecycle management activities.
- Manage clinical evaluation projects, ensuring alignment between clinical evidence, regulatory strategy, product claims, and commercialization objectives.
- Author and maintain clinical evaluations, post-market clinical follow-up documentation, regulatory submissions, annual reports, and other clinical documentation.
- Design and execute systematic literature reviews, evaluate published evidence, and synthesize clinical, preclinical, and post-market data into scientifically supported conclusions.
- Assess benefit-risk profiles of medical devices and develop evidence-based recommendations in accordance with global regulatory requirements.
- Partner with regulatory authorities and internal stakeholders to address clinical evidence requirements and support regulatory submissions.
- Develop scientific communications, including manuscripts, conference abstracts, presentations, white papers, and customer-facing evidence materials.
- Mentor team members, lead cross-functional review processes, and identify opportunities to improve clinical evaluation methodologies, documentation practices, and team efficiency.
Pay
$110,100 – $238,400 a year
Employer providedUnited States of America Pay Ranges
- USN: $110,100 - $183,400 USD Annual
- US5: $115,600 - $192,600 USD Annual
- US10: $121,100 - $201,700 USD Annual
- US15: $126,600 - $210,900 USD Annual
- US20: $132,100 - $220,100 USD Annual
- US30: $143,100 - $238,400 USD Annual
Equal opportunity, accessibility and legal noticesStryker's statements, word for word
View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.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.
Job intelligence
The context around this role
Live data · November 5, 2026
Salary intelligence
How the pay compares
This role's midpoint is 19% above the US median for Clinical Evaluation & Medical Writing roles at this level.
This roleEmployer provided
Senior & Principal roles in the US14 roles publishing pay
| Annual base pay | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| This role | $110,100 | — | $238,400 |
| All US (middle half) | $132,750 | $146,000 | $173,250 |
This role: Stryker's own published range. Comparisons: the base pay employers published on open Clinical Evaluation & Medical Writing roles at the same level on Regulatory Jobs, November 5, 2026. Nothing is estimated.
Career trajectory
Where this role sits in Clinical Evaluation & Medical Writing
The general path across 42 open Clinical Evaluation & Medical Writing roles on Regulatory Jobs, with the titles they carry most. Not Stryker's own promotion track.
Skills DNA
What this role leans on
How many of the posting's 20 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.
- Collaboration and leadership6
- Regulatory submissions5
- Documentation and SOPs4
- GMP and compliance1
- Lab testing and methods1
Regulatory intelligence
The rules, regulations and standards behind this role
The regulations, guidance and standards that govern Clinical Evaluation & Medical Writing work in medical devices, each linked to the agency or standards body that publishes it.
- EUMDCG guidance(official source, opens in a new tab)The Medical Device Coordination Group's endorsed guidance on applying the MDR and IVDR
- EUEU MDR (Regulation 2017/745)(official source, opens in a new tab)The EU Medical Device Regulation: CE marking, technical documentation, vigilance
- ISOISO 14155(official source, opens in a new tab)Good clinical practice for clinical investigations of medical devices
- ISOISO 14971(official source, opens in a new tab)Application of risk management to medical devices
- FDA21 CFR Part 812(official source, opens in a new tab)Investigational device exemptions for clinical studies of devices
- FDAFDA 510(k)(official source, opens in a new tab)Premarket notification: showing substantial equivalence to a legally marketed device
- FDA21 CFR Part 814(official source, opens in a new tab)Premarket approval of class III medical devices
- FDAFDA De Novo(official source, opens in a new tab)Classification requests for novel low- to moderate-risk devices
- EUEU IVDR (Regulation 2017/746)(official source, opens in a new tab)The EU In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation
- ICHICH E6(R3) good clinical practice(official source, opens in a new tab)The international standard for the design, conduct and reporting of clinical trials
- NIH42 CFR Part 11(official source, opens in a new tab)Clinical trial registration and results reporting on ClinicalTrials.gov
- IECIEC 62366-1(official source, opens in a new tab)Application of usability engineering to medical devices
- FDAFDA human factors guidance(official source, opens in a new tab)Applying human factors and usability engineering to medical devices
- FDA21 CFR Part 803(official source, opens in a new tab)Medical device reporting of deaths, serious injuries and malfunctions
- IMDRFIMDRF(official source, opens in a new tab)International Medical Device Regulators Forum guidance, including software as a medical device
- FDA21 CFR Part 50(official source, opens in a new tab)Protection of human subjects: informed consent in FDA-regulated trials
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