Senior Integration Engineer

Medtronic•Fridley, MN

6d•$124,800 - $187,200•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Integration Engineer is a technical deployment and integration specialist on Medtronic’s Visual Process Monitoring Deployment Acceleration Team. The role onboards manufacturing equipment, machine vision systems, and operational technologies into the Analytics for Manufacturing Imaging (AMI) ecosystem, implementing reusable integration patterns and enabling image and process data connectivity for AI-enabled visual process monitoring across Medtronic’s global manufacturing network. The position partners with manufacturing sites and engineering teams to assess equipment, deploy data collection infrastructure and connectivity services, and ensure deployed systems support image acquisition, metadata capture, model execution, monitoring, and visualization. It also develops reusable deployment approaches, improves deployment automation and scalability, troubleshoots integration issues, supports commissioning and sustainment, and creates documentation and training materials. The role is based at Medtronic’s Rice Creek, Minnesota facility and works onsite four days per week. It requires 25% travel. The position is eligible for the Medtronic Incentive Plan. The listed U.S. salary range is $124,800 to $187,200, excluding Puerto Rico and specified California locations.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, or at least 2 years of experience with an advanced degree.
At least 2 years of experience deploying solutions across multiple manufacturing sites or operational environments.
At least 2 years of experience collecting operational, process, machine-state, and image-based data from manufacturing assets.
At least 1 year of experience connecting operational technology (OT) systems to enterprise software platforms and data infrastructures.
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

Previous Medtronic experience.
Experience integrating manufacturing equipment, inspection systems, machine vision systems, automation equipment, or industrial control systems into production environments.
Experience working with OEM equipment suppliers, controls engineers, automation engineers, and manufacturing personnel during equipment deployment and commissioning.
Understanding of manufacturing equipment architectures and automation system design principles.
Experience with OPC-UA, Ethernet/IP, MQTT, Modbus, Profinet, or similar industrial communication protocols.
Familiarity with industrial networking, Edge architectures, IoT platforms, and manufacturing data systems.
Experience developing and deploying solutions using Ignition.
Experience integrating MES, historians, SCADA systems, databases, ERP platforms, and manufacturing analytics solutions.
Experience configuring dashboards, operational visibility solutions, and manufacturing intelligence applications.
Understanding of image acquisition architectures and deployment of vision systems in manufacturing environments.
Experience developing reusable deployment methodologies, integration templates, implementation guides, and support documentation.
Strong customer-facing communication skills and ability to work directly with plant personnel, engineering teams, automation teams, and site leadership.

Responsibilities

Partner with manufacturing sites, automation engineers, controls engineers, and equipment owners to onboard machines, vision systems, and manufacturing processes into the AMI platform.
Assess manufacturing equipment and determine approaches for collecting image data, process data, machine-state information, and operational context.
Configure and deploy AMI data collection infrastructure, image acquisition workflows, metadata pipelines, and connectivity services for VPM deployments.
Implement, enhance, and support reusable integrations connecting industrial cameras, machine vision systems, PLCs, MES platforms, historians, databases, and manufacturing equipment to AMI solutions.
Configure and support Ignition gateways, tag structures, data models, scripts, and visualization components.
Establish and validate connectivity using industrial protocols such as OPC-UA, Ethernet/IP, MQTT, Modbus, and Profinet.
Collaborate with Computer Vision Engineers and platform engineers to support image acquisition, metadata capture, model execution, monitoring, and visualization requirements.
Develop and prototype integration approaches for previously unsupported equipment, image sources, automation systems, and manufacturing processes.
Turn site-specific integrations into reusable deployment patterns, onboarding templates, reference architectures, and best practices.
Identify opportunities to automate deployment, onboarding, configuration, and validation activities.
Troubleshoot hardware, software, networking, automation, and data-flow issues that affect deployment and production operations.
Support deployment, commissioning, validation, and sustainment of VPM solutions across manufacturing sites.
Create technical documentation, deployment playbooks, integration standards, and training materials.
Coach site engineers and technical resources on AMI capabilities, integration patterns, troubleshooting, and deployment methodologies.
Support multiple concurrent VPM deployments and improve platform scalability, repeatability, and user experience.