At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

In this role, you will be responsible for technical development of Neuromodulation products from early feasibility through to market release.  Neuromodulation products provide therapy for a variety of conditions including Chronic Pain, Cancer Pain, Severe Spasticity, Epilepsy, Dystonia, Essential Tremor, and Parkinson’s Disease. Products include implantable and external neurostimulators, implantable infusion pumps, and associated device recharge and programming instruments. 

You will work closely with a cross-functional engineering team to synthesize feature needs and technology trends into system requirements and design specifications.  This individual will apply proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to guide his/her team on issues related to the design, design characterization and verification testing, operations support, and product release.

Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team!

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develop and execute the overall system technical development strategy.
• Collect and analyze design inputs (customer needs, business needs, etc.) and transform them into high quality engineering requirements.
• Perform system architecture and design for all phases of system development to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of system requirements and design into product requirements that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Lead, coordinate, execute, and document system analysis and design activities including but not limited to architecture definition, interface management, performance modeling, system integration, and design failure modes and effects analyses.
• Identify technical development risks, develop and execute risk burn-down plans
• Facilitate cross-functional engineering and project team communication to drive design decisions, align on test and integration strategies, review test results, identify technical issues and manage their resolution
• Verify system requirements have been properly implemented (writing, leveling, tracing) through inspection, demonstration, test or analysis.
• Validate that implemented systems meet customer needs
• Support regulatory body submissions and facilitate knowledge transfer to continuation engineering teams
• Represent the organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.  May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.
• Manage major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.
• Establish and advocate for best practices and continuous improvement as to mature the Systems Engineering knowledge and processes.
• Understand and advocate for technology evolution and participate in the development of system and product roadmaps.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in a technically related field required
• Minimum of 4 years of engineering experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of experience

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s Degree in in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or similar discipline.
• Experience developing system definition, system design and requirements, requirement tracing to subsystems and interface requirements, and system verification and validation strategy and testing.
• Experience with systems engineering principles, including requirement analysis and allocation, architecture, verification, and validation.
• Collaboration experience with Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, and/or Biomedical Design Engineers.
• Complete lifecycle product development experience for hardware and/or software systems(concept to market release).
• Knowledge of engineering statistical tools/methods such as DOE, Monte Carlo, Minitab, ANOVA, (DFLS, DFSS, or DRM Green or Black Belt certification a plus).
• Product Risk Assessment and Risk Management Experience (Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, etc.)
• Experience developing sensor-based systems, including closed-loop feedback control systems.
• Experience developing data analytics algorithms, machine learning algorithms, and working with big data.
• Previous medical device experience with a history of developing products from technology to  market release.
• Experience interfacing with physician customers and therapy consultants.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$104,800.00 - $157,200.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

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About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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