Sr. Electrical Engineering Manager (CRM)

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Electrical System Design team develops electronics, integration approaches, and engineering solutions for life-saving implantable cardiac devices and associated external systems. The Senior Electrical Engineering Manager contributes to the functional strategy and turns it into actionable team plans, anticipating future product needs and identifying capability, expertise, and infrastructure gaps. The role balances program delivery with long-term functional strength and aligns technical priorities and team capabilities with business needs. The manager leads 10–15 engineers, from entry-level engineers to experienced technical leaders and subject matter experts, supporting multiple product platforms and concurrent development programs. The team works across the full product lifecycle, from architecture and requirements through circuit and PCB design, firmware and ASIC integration, characterization, verification, manufacturing transfer, and post-market support. The manager is accountable for technical execution, organizational health, and employee engagement, while developing technical talent and leadership capability and aligning resources and commitments with business priorities. The position is based in Mounds View, Minnesota, and requires working onsite a minimum of five days per week. The team delivers high-reliability, safety-critical electrical designs and operates in accordance with applicable internal procedures, regulatory expectations, and external standards, including ISO 14708 and IEC 60601.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical field, with at least 7 years of relevant technical experience and 5 or more years of managerial or people leadership experience; OR an advanced degree with at least 5 years of relevant technical experience and 5 or more years of managerial or people leadership experience.
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

Experience leading electrical engineering, product engineering, hardware integration, or systems integration teams in a regulated product development environment.
Experience developing Class III medical devices, active implantable medical devices, or other high-reliability safety-critical products.
Strong understanding of medical device design controls, verification and validation, requirements management, risk management, and post-market support.
Technical breadth across PCB design, analog and mixed-signal electronics, digital interfaces, RF/telemetry, ultra-low-power design, EMI/EMC, manufacturing test, and product integration, with ability to guide reviews and technical tradeoffs.
Experience integrating PCB hardware with firmware, ASICs, mechanical systems, sensors, electrodes, batteries, telemetry systems, or other embedded product technologies.
Experience with MRI safety, electromagnetic compatibility, implantable device reliability, or applicable standards such as ISO 14708 and IEC 60601.
Demonstrated ability to lead root-cause investigations and resolve complex hardware, firmware, ASIC, manufacturing, or system-level interactions.
Experience partnering with global manufacturing sites, suppliers, technical sourcing, operations, quality, reliability, regulatory, and program management.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make sound technical and business tradeoffs in ambiguous situations.
Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment across engineering disciplines.
Strong communication, leadership, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
Experience developing technical talent, building team capability, and creating an inclusive, accountable, high-performing engineering culture.

Responsibilities

Define and advance the electrical engineering functional strategy, including technical capability development, engineering methods and tools, and investments for current and future product portfolios.
Recruit, develop, coach, and evaluate team members; set goals aligned with business and program objectives; and provide performance feedback, career development, and technical leadership opportunities.
Build an inclusive, high-performing team culture grounded in technical excellence, accountability, design rigor, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
Plan and prioritize resources and staffing across product development programs, sustaining projects, and functional initiatives; balance near-term commitments with long-term capability needs and escalate gaps or competing priorities.
Partner with program managers and cross-functional leaders to establish electrical engineering commitments aligned with program cost, scope, and schedule; monitor execution and drive corrective actions and technical risk mitigation.
Ensure robust electrical designs and PCB implementations are supported by clear requirements, interface specifications, design documentation, and characterization and verification strategies, with evidence demonstrating compliance with product requirements and medical device design controls.
Lead electrical system integration across PCB hardware, ASICs, firmware, mechanical interfaces, and telemetry/RF systems, ensuring compatibility with manufacturing processes and product requirements.
Ensure appropriate expertise and rigorous reviews are applied to circuit and PCB design, mixed-signal electronics, RF/telemetry performance, EMI/EMC, MRI safety, reliability, and safety-critical design decisions.
Guide issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and technical decision-making for complex development and manufacturing issues, including tradeoffs involving power consumption, sensing performance, device size, reliability, manufacturability, and product cost.
Partner with test engineering and global operations to define production test requirements, establish assembly and test readiness, and execute design transfer; support yield improvement, failure analysis, and resolution of sustaining issues.
Drive continuous improvement in design practices, documentation quality, test automation, design margin assessment, technical reviews, and engineering execution.
Ensure work complies with internal procedures, regulatory expectations, and relevant external standards, including ISO 14708 and IEC 60601.
Escalate technical, resource, quality, schedule, and organizational issues through established governance practices as appropriate.

Benefits

Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
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.
Global well-being program (Simple Steps).
Incentive plans, including eligibility for the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) short-term incentive.
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 for Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums.