Sr Engineering Manager - CRM

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

4d•$171,200 - $256,800•Hybrid

About The Position

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life Senior Engineering Manager Careers That Change Lives At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday. The Cardiac Rhythm Management Electrical System Design team develops electronics, integration approaches, and engineering solutions that enable life-saving implantable and external medical device systems. As a Senior Electrical Engineering Manager in the Cardiac Rhythm Management organization, you will leverage your technical breadth, product development experience, and leadership skills to lead a team responsible for electrical product engineering, PCB design, electronic design and integration, hardware/software/ASIC integration at the board and system level, RF/telemetry development, manufacturing support, test development, and safety-critical product compliance. This role is ideal for a highly motivated and accountable engineering leader who is passionate about developing people, delivering complex medical technologies, and improving patients’ lives through rigorous engineering execution. This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) operating unit. 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 are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. A Day in the Life This role of Senior Engineering Manager is expected to have responsibilities in both project management and people management, as well as individual contributions as an SME. The broad, collective responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to the following: Team Leadership & Development: Builds, develops, coaches, and evaluates a high-performing team of electrical engineers focused on technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and career growth while fostering a strong culture of design rigor and continuous improvement. Strategic Alignment & Execution: Sets team and individual goals aligned with business priorities, program commitments, and organizational objectives; monitors progress, provides regular feedback, and leads resource planning, prioritization, and staffing across development programs, sustaining projects, and initiatives. Technical Oversight & Delivery: Ensures delivery of high-reliability, safety-critical electrical designs, PCB implementations, firmware/ASIC integration, verification evidence, and production test methods across the full product lifecycle, applying rigorous standards for circuit design, mixed-signal electronics, RF/telemetry, EMI/EMC, MRI safety, and reliability. System Integration & Requirements: Provides leadership for electrical system integration across hardware, ASICs, firmware, mechanical interfaces, and system-level requirements; oversees development and maintenance of electrical requirements, interface specifications, characterization plans, and documentation. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partners closely with program management, systems engineering, firmware, mechanical, reliability, quality, regulatory, operations, and global manufacturing teams to manage cost, scope, schedule, technical risk, manufacturing transfer, yield improvement, and issue resolution. Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Ensures all work complies with medical device design controls and standards (ISO 14708, IEC 60601, etc.); drives improvements in design practices, test automation, technical reviews, and decision-making while escalating issues through governance channels as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical, systems, mechanical or biomedical engineering and minimum of 7 years of work experience with 5 years of managerial experience OR advanced degree in mechanical, electrical, systems or biomedical engineering with 5 years of work experience and 5 years of managerial experience.

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.
Demonstrated understanding of medical device design controls, verification and validation, requirements management, risk management, and post-market support.
Technical breadth across PCB design, analog electronics, mixed-signal electronics, digital interfaces, RF/telemetry, low-power design, EMI/EMC, manufacturing test, and product integration.
Experience integrating PCB hardware with firmware, ASICs, mechanical systems, sensors, electrodes, batteries, telemetry systems, or other embedded product technologies.

Responsibilities

Builds, develops, coaches, and evaluates a high-performing team of electrical engineers focused on technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and career growth while fostering a strong culture of design rigor and continuous improvement.
Sets team and individual goals aligned with business priorities, program commitments, and organizational objectives; monitors progress, provides regular feedback, and leads resource planning, prioritization, and staffing across development programs, sustaining projects, and initiatives.
Ensures delivery of high-reliability, safety-critical electrical designs, PCB implementations, firmware/ASIC integration, verification evidence, and production test methods across the full product lifecycle, applying rigorous standards for circuit design, mixed-signal electronics, RF/telemetry, EMI/EMC, MRI safety, and reliability.
Provides leadership for electrical system integration across hardware, ASICs, firmware, mechanical interfaces, and system-level requirements; oversees development and maintenance of electrical requirements, interface specifications, characterization plans, and documentation.
Partners closely with program management, systems engineering, firmware, mechanical, reliability, quality, regulatory, operations, and global manufacturing teams to manage cost, scope, schedule, technical risk, manufacturing transfer, yield improvement, and issue resolution.
Ensures all work complies with medical device design controls and standards (ISO 14708, IEC 60601, etc.); drives improvements in design practices, test automation, technical reviews, and decision-making while escalating issues through governance channels as needed.

Benefits

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
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)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)