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Product Safety Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which requires your employer to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available. Manufacturers, medical device firms, and consumer electronics companies regularly sponsor foreign professionals in this field for permanent residency.
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Job description
We are excited to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces by Fortune Magazine! We are proud to offer you 12 paid holidays annually. For an overview of our benefits and time off, please follow this link to learn more: US Stryker employee benefits.
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Join Stryker's Mako Robotics team as a Senior Product Safety Engineer, helping ensure the safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance of advanced robotic-assisted surgical technologies.
In this hands-on engineering role, you will partner closely with electrical, systems, and cross-functional engineering teams to identify and mitigate product safety risks throughout development. You will support electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing, troubleshoot technical challenges, and help ensure products meet applicable industry standards.
This opportunity is ideal for an engineer with a strong electrical foundation who enjoys practical problem-solving, laboratory testing, and collaborating with design teams to develop safe, high-quality medical devices.
What You Will Do
- Product Safety & Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and document electrical and system-level safety hazards. Develop and maintain risk management documentation, including hazard analyses, FMEAs, and safety assessments, while recommending practical risk mitigation strategies.
- Electrical Safety & EMC: Apply electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility principles to evaluate product designs, identify potential compliance concerns, and support troubleshooting and design improvements.
- Standards & Compliance: Interpret and apply relevant medical device safety standards, with particular emphasis on IEC 60601 and its relationship to ISO 14971 and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Testing & Laboratory Coordination: Plan, coordinate, and support electrical safety and EMC testing with internal teams and external laboratories, including UL, CSA, TÜV, and other recognized testing organizations. Prepare test documentation, coordinate samples, evaluate results, and help resolve identified issues.
- Design Collaboration: Work closely with electrical, systems, mechanical, and software engineers to integrate safety requirements into product development, identify potential issues early, and support iterative design testing.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Investigate safety-related test failures and nonconformances, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with engineering teams to develop and verify effective corrective actions.
- Documentation & Regulatory Support: Maintain accurate safety documentation, test evidence, and requirements traceability. Provide technical input supporting design reviews, verification activities, and regulatory submissions.
- Continuous Improvement: Contribute to improvements in product safety processes, testing practices, and engineering documentation while sharing technical knowledge and best practices across project teams.
What You Need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline is required.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant engineering experience in electrical engineering, product development, hardware testing, product safety, or a closely related technical field is required.
Preferred Qualifications (You do not need all of these)
- Demonstrated understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals, including electrical circuits, system behavior, and troubleshooting methodologies.
- Working knowledge of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC/EMI) principles and their application to electrical systems, testing, or design troubleshooting.
- Ability to interpret technical standards, analyze test results, investigate technical issues, and recommend practical engineering solutions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.
- Experience supporting medical device development or engineering in another regulated industry.
- Familiarity with IEC 60601, ISO 14971, FDA requirements, and medical device risk management practices, including hazard analysis, FMEA, or fault tree analysis.
- Hands-on experience with EMC or electrical safety testing, including test setup, troubleshooting, data interpretation, or coordination with external testing laboratories.
- Understanding of EMC design considerations, including conducted and radiated interference, shielding, grounding, coupling mechanisms, PCB and cable parasitics, and current return paths.
- Familiarity with medical electrical safety concepts such as essential performance, insulation diagrams, means of operator protection (MOOP), means of patient protection (MOPP), and programmable electrical medical systems.
- Experience collaborating with electrical, mechanical, software, and systems engineering teams to resolve product safety or compliance challenges.
- Familiarity with engineering tools such as Altium, Jama, Jira, or equivalent design and documentation systems.
Additional Information
This position is based in Weston, Florida, and may require occasional travel to other Stryker locations and external testing laboratories to support product safety and compliance activities.
- $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
Why join Stryker?
Looking for a place that values your unique talents? Discover Stryker's award-winning culture.
We are proud to offer you our total rewards package which includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards – not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.
Job description
We are excited to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces by Fortune Magazine! We are proud to offer you 12 paid holidays annually. For an overview of our benefits and time off, please follow this link to learn more: US Stryker employee benefits.
It's Time to Join Stryker!
Join Stryker's Mako Robotics team as a Senior Product Safety Engineer, helping ensure the safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance of advanced robotic-assisted surgical technologies.
In this hands-on engineering role, you will partner closely with electrical, systems, and cross-functional engineering teams to identify and mitigate product safety risks throughout development. You will support electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing, troubleshoot technical challenges, and help ensure products meet applicable industry standards.
This opportunity is ideal for an engineer with a strong electrical foundation who enjoys practical problem-solving, laboratory testing, and collaborating with design teams to develop safe, high-quality medical devices.
What You Will Do
- Product Safety & Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and document electrical and system-level safety hazards. Develop and maintain risk management documentation, including hazard analyses, FMEAs, and safety assessments, while recommending practical risk mitigation strategies.
- Electrical Safety & EMC: Apply electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility principles to evaluate product designs, identify potential compliance concerns, and support troubleshooting and design improvements.
- Standards & Compliance: Interpret and apply relevant medical device safety standards, with particular emphasis on IEC 60601 and its relationship to ISO 14971 and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Testing & Laboratory Coordination: Plan, coordinate, and support electrical safety and EMC testing with internal teams and external laboratories, including UL, CSA, TÜV, and other recognized testing organizations. Prepare test documentation, coordinate samples, evaluate results, and help resolve identified issues.
- Design Collaboration: Work closely with electrical, systems, mechanical, and software engineers to integrate safety requirements into product development, identify potential issues early, and support iterative design testing.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Investigate safety-related test failures and nonconformances, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with engineering teams to develop and verify effective corrective actions.
- Documentation & Regulatory Support: Maintain accurate safety documentation, test evidence, and requirements traceability. Provide technical input supporting design reviews, verification activities, and regulatory submissions.
- Continuous Improvement: Contribute to improvements in product safety processes, testing practices, and engineering documentation while sharing technical knowledge and best practices across project teams.
What You Need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline is required.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant engineering experience in electrical engineering, product development, hardware testing, product safety, or a closely related technical field is required.
Preferred Qualifications (You do not need all of these)
- Demonstrated understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals, including electrical circuits, system behavior, and troubleshooting methodologies.
- Working knowledge of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC/EMI) principles and their application to electrical systems, testing, or design troubleshooting.
- Ability to interpret technical standards, analyze test results, investigate technical issues, and recommend practical engineering solutions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.
- Experience supporting medical device development or engineering in another regulated industry.
- Familiarity with IEC 60601, ISO 14971, FDA requirements, and medical device risk management practices, including hazard analysis, FMEA, or fault tree analysis.
- Hands-on experience with EMC or electrical safety testing, including test setup, troubleshooting, data interpretation, or coordination with external testing laboratories.
- Understanding of EMC design considerations, including conducted and radiated interference, shielding, grounding, coupling mechanisms, PCB and cable parasitics, and current return paths.
- Familiarity with medical electrical safety concepts such as essential performance, insulation diagrams, means of operator protection (MOOP), means of patient protection (MOPP), and programmable electrical medical systems.
- Experience collaborating with electrical, mechanical, software, and systems engineering teams to resolve product safety or compliance challenges.
- Familiarity with engineering tools such as Altium, Jama, Jira, or equivalent design and documentation systems.
Additional Information
This position is based in Weston, Florida, and may require occasional travel to other Stryker locations and external testing laboratories to support product safety and compliance activities.
- $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Product Safety Engineer
Translate your credentials into PERM language
When your degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation that maps it to a U.S. bachelor's or master's in engineering. PERM requires your education to match the minimum requirements listed in the prevailing wage request, so a vague evaluation can stall certification.
Target industries with active PERM filing histories
Medical device manufacturers, automotive suppliers, and industrial equipment companies file PERM applications for Product Safety Engineers far more regularly than consumer software firms. Focus your search on regulated-product industries where safety sign-off is a legal requirement, not a nice-to-have.
Search sponsoring employers through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Product Safety Engineer roles by employers with green card sponsorship history. This saves you from applying to companies that have never filed a PERM, which account for the majority of job postings in this field.
Verify the job description supports EB-2 classification
If you hold a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five or more years of specialized safety engineering experience, push your employer to classify the role under EB-2. The job posting must specify an advanced degree as a requirement, not just a preference, or DOL will classify it as EB-3.
Request the prevailing wage determination early in negotiations
Your employer files a prevailing wage request with OFLC before starting PERM recruitment. Ask your HR or immigration contact what wage level they plan to request. Level I and II determinations can underprice senior safety roles, which creates problems during the PERM audit phase.
Confirm your employer is E-Verify enrolled before signing an offer
PERM-sponsoring employers must be able to verify employment eligibility. If the company isn't enrolled in E-Verify, that's a signal their immigration infrastructure may not support a multi-year green card process. Ask directly before committing to a role.
Green Card Product Safety Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Product Safety Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Both categories are available depending on how the role is defined. EB-3 covers positions requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. EB-2 applies when the role requires a master's degree or equivalent, meaning a bachelor's plus at least five years of progressive safety engineering experience. The employer's PERM filing and the DOL prevailing wage determination ultimately lock in the category.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status capped at 85,000 new visas annually and subject to a lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM is permanent and has no annual numerical cap at the EB-3 level for most countries. The PERM process is longer, typically taking one to three years before USCIS adjudicates the I-140, but the result is lawful permanent residency rather than a visa you must renew every three years.
What does the PERM process look like for a Product Safety Engineer?
Your employer first requests a prevailing wage from OFLC, then conducts a supervised recruitment campaign to confirm no qualified U.S. worker is available for the role. If recruitment is unsuccessful, the employer files the ETA-9089 with DOL. After certification, they file an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS on your behalf. The entire sequence commonly spans 18 to 36 months depending on DOL processing times and any audits.
How do I find Product Safety Engineer jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Most job postings don't advertise PERM sponsorship explicitly, so searching by job title alone misses most opportunities. Migrate Mate lets you filter roles specifically by employers who have a documented history of filing green card petitions, which makes it far more efficient than reviewing general job listings and asking about sponsorship after the fact.
Can my functional safety certifications such as TÜV or ISO 26262 training affect my PERM eligibility classification?
They don't change the PERM category directly, but they can support an EB-2 classification argument if your employer frames the role as requiring specialized expertise beyond a standard bachelor's degree. USCIS evaluates whether the position genuinely requires advanced knowledge. Documented certifications in functional safety standards strengthen that argument, particularly for roles in automotive or medical device environments where regulatory compliance is central to the job.