Principal Systems Engineer
About The Position
Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) group is hiring a Principal Systems Engineer to support product development. The role focuses on procedure and system development, integration, verification, and validation for CRM products. The engineer partners with systems engineering peers and cross-functional teams—including marketing, product design, quality, and program management—to develop meaningful design inputs, robust designs, and efficient verification and validation strategies. The position contributes technical expertise throughout product development and helps establish effective practices and approaches for demonstrating that products meet expectations. The role is based at Medtronic’s Mounds View, Minnesota facility and requires at least four days per week on-site. Travel is 10% or less. The engineer leads project technical work and systems engineering activities, develops and guides the project’s systems engineers, and provides technical oversight through early product launch and transition to Released Product Engineering.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, health science, or a related technical field.
- At least 7 years of relevant industry experience with a bachelor’s degree, or at least 5 years of relevant industry experience with an advanced degree.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of the clinical application of products within CRM.
- Experience with procedure development and/or clinical workflow exposure.
- Experience with customer engagements and field support.
- For baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree satisfying the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of system architecture for products involving hardware, software, communication, and mechanical components.
Responsibilities
- Lead the transformation of customer and business needs into quality solutions.
- Drive and monitor technical content, system integrity, and system integration.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to achieve technical alignment.
- Identify major technical project risks and drive mitigation activities.
- Evolve solutions based on risk-reduction learnings and system integration activities.
- Work with cross-functional partners to mature solution concepts and address trade-offs and subsystem allocation.
- Communicate solution concepts to core, business, and cross-functional teams, and drive organizational alignment through influence.
- Identify Systems Engineering activities, durations, dependencies, and work breakdown structure; delegate appropriate project tasks.
- Coach and mentor systems engineers on the project team.
- Lead the Systems Team, providing technical review and decisions and escalating challenges with recommendations.
- Account for the technical correctness of the final delivered solution.
- Lead user engagement sessions to collect user inputs.
- Define user workflows and drive procedure development solutions.
- Define design input requirements and system design, including use cases and system interfaces; allocate functionality and performance to subsystems; and review subsystem designs.
- Plan and execute activities to mature technology and algorithmic features and reduce risk, including clinical or pre-clinical download studies as needed.
- Develop and execute system risk burndown activities to retire risk and demonstrate system capability.
- Lead teams in developing and executing a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy.
- Establish evaluation and launch strategies, such as alpha/beta testing and key performance indicators.
- Participate in defining and executing clinical trial design or Limited Release Evaluation strategy, if required.
- Provide technical guidance on customer training and deliver training on new system features.
- Monitor key performance indicators and develop responses when they fall outside expected ranges.
- Proactively detect and manage system issues during early launch, including Field Corrective Actions.
- Provide technical oversight and on-site support during initial product launch until the product is stable and ready to transfer to Released Product Engineering.
- Lead identification and documentation of technical lessons learned.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Short-term incentive through the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement.
- Simple Steps global well-being program.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match.
- Short-term disability.
- Paid time off.
- Paid holidays.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement, subject to IRS earning minimums.
- Capital Accumulation Plan, available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
