Senior Product Engineer - NM - Rice Creek, MN (Onsite)

Medtronic • Fridley, MN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

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 Our Neuromodulation Operating Unit provides advanced therapies for chronic pain, movement disorders, and other neurological conditions. Through spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and targeted drug delivery systems, we deliver personalized treatments that restore function, reduce symptoms, and improve quality of life worldwide. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic Brain Modulation and Pain Interventions In this role as Senior Product Engineer, you will lead the technical development of Neuromodulation products from early feasibility through market release. These products support therapies for conditions such as chronic pain, cancer pain, severe spasticity, epilepsy, dystonia, essential tremor, and Parkinson’s disease, and include implantable and external neurostimulators, implantable infusion pumps, as well as associated recharge and programming systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams to translate clinical needs and emerging technologies into product requirements and design specifications. This includes providing technical direction, guiding verification and validation activities, and driving risk assessment and mitigation throughout the development lifecycle. You will also partner with manufacturing and suppliers to ensure alignment on requirements, specifications, and risk management, supporting seamless integration across the broader development process. Onsite At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer or Biomedical Engineering with minimum of 4 years of experience designing requirements developments and structure, OR Master’s degree in Electrical, Computer or Biomedical Engineering with minimum of 4 years of experience designing requirements developments and structure

Nice To Haves

• Product Risk Assessment and Risk Management Experience (Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, etc.)
• Collaboration experience with Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, and/or Biomedical Design Engineers
• Experience working with Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Processes
• Product development experience (concept to market release)
• Familiarity with International Standards applicable to medical devices, such as ISO 14708-1 or IEC 60601
• Project Management experience
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the overall technical strategy for product development
• Partner with Systems, Labeling, Marketing, Regulatory, and other cross-functional teams to define and deliver designs that meet customer and system requirements, ensuring alignment across functional interfaces
• Translate product needs into clear requirements and allocate design and verification responsibilities accordingly
• Identify technical risks and lead the development and execution of risk mitigation plans
• Facilitate cross-functional communication to drive design decisions, align on test strategies, review results, and resolve technical issues
• Lead and maintain design failure modes and effects analyses (DFMEA)
• Collaborate with suppliers and manufacturing partners to ensure effective flow-down of requirements and risks, and alignment between process and design maturity for builds and testing
• Establish and oversee design verification plans, ensuring technical rigor throughout development
• Support regulatory submissions and enable smooth knowledge transfer to sustaining/continuation engineering teams
• Translate customer needs and emerging technologies into hardware technology roadmaps

Benefits

• 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.
• Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
• Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
• Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees