

New · posted Nov 15
Stryker · Medical Devices
Staff Clinical Evaluation Specialist
- Remote, US
- Remote
- Full-time
- Senior & Principal
The role
Work Flexibility: Remote
Join Stryker’s Joint Replacement Clinical Affairs team as a Staff Clinical Evaluation Specialist, leading the development and maintenance of clinical evaluation documentation to support brining medical device to market and throughout the product lifecycle. This role combines scientific writing, clinical evidence assessment, regulatory strategy, and project management to support regulatory submissions across multiple global markets.
What you need
Required
- Bachelor’s degree required. Preferred to be in Life Sciences, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 4 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Affairs, Clinical Evaluation, or a related function supporting regulatory or clinical evidence activities.
- Prior experience within the medical device industry.
- Experience developing clinical evaluation documentation for medical devices, including Clinical Evaluation Reports, Clinical Evaluation Plans, Summaries of Safety and Clinical Performance, or post-market clinical follow-up documentation.
Preferrednice to have
- Experience with scientific writing, systematic literature reviews, analysis of published scientific literature, and interpretation of clinical or scientific data.
- Experience applying U.S., European, or Australian medical device regulatory requirements to clinical evidence or clinical evaluation activities
What you'll do
- Lead the preparation and periodic updates of Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs), Clinical Evaluation Plans (CEPs), Summary of Safety and Clinical Performance documents (SSCPs), Post-Market Clinical Follow-up Plans (PMCFPs), and Post-Market Clinical Follow-up Reports (PMCFRs) to support regulatory submissions and ongoing compliance.
- Design compliant, sustainable literature search strategies and conduct systematic literature reviews to identify, evaluate, and summarize published clinical evidence and current scientific and medical practice.
- Analyze clinical, post-market surveillance, preclinical, and marketing data using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate device safety, performance, and benefit-risk.
- Lead clinical evaluation projects and establish clinical evidence strategies throughout new product development, aligning clinical evidence with regulatory, clinical research, preclinical testing, marketing, and product claims strategies.
- Evaluate clinical evidence against current U.S., European, and Australian regulatory requirements and collaborate with medical experts and cross-functional stakeholders to develop scientific conclusions on device safety and performance.
- Identify evidence gaps and residual risks and develop post-market clinical follow-up activities with Clinical Research to address unanswered clinical questions.
- Translate clinical data and scientific findings into peer-reviewed publications, white papers, clinical summaries, posters, presentations, and other materials supporting cross-functional business needs.
Pay
$95,700 – $207,400 a year
Employer providedUnited States of America Pay Ranges
- USN: $95,700 - $159,500 USD Annual
- US5: $100,500 - $167,500 USD Annual
- US10: $105,300 - $175,500 USD Annual
- US15: $110,100 - $183,400 USD Annual
- US20: $114,800 - $191,400 USD Annual
- US30: $124,400 - $207,400 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: 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.
Job intelligence
The context around this role
Live data · November 15, 2026
Salary intelligence
How the pay compares
This role's midpoint is 9% 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 | $95,700 | — | $207,400 |
| All US (middle half) | $125,875 | $139,500 | $157,625 |
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 15, 2026. Nothing is estimated.
Career trajectory
Where this role sits in Clinical Evaluation & Medical Writing
The general path across 41 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 15 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.
- Collaboration and leadership5
- Documentation and SOPs4
- Lab testing and methods2
- Regulatory submissions2
- Clinical trial conduct2
- GMP and compliance1
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
- TGAAustralia TGA(official source, opens in a new tab)Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration
- 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
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