Sr Principal Systems Engineer

Medtronic • Mounds View, MN

2d • 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 Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Research & Development (R&D) organization is looking for a motivated engineer with experience in systems engineering principles and practices to work in a systems engineering role for product development. The position responsibilities will focus on system concept and architecture, requirements and design, integration, verification, and validation for products within the CRM ecosystem. You will be responsible for partnering with systems engineer peers, marketing, product design teams, quality and program management to drive meaningful design inputs, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification and validation strategy. Along the path to launch, you will become a technical contributor towards the success of the product and help establish best-practices and innovative approaches towards proving that our products meet the expectations of the Medtronic Mission. The position offers an excellent opportunity for an engineer interested in designing and executing systems engineering activities to produce reliable and successful products. Candidates should have demonstrated ability to execute independently after receiving high level scope and constraints. 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 onsite 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. This position is on-site in Mounds View, MN.

Requirements

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience OR PhD with 6 years relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
• Demonstrated expertise in modeling across multiple domains (e.g., physical, logical, functional/behavioral, data)
• Experience with systems engineering principles
• Demonstrated experience with modern software development practices and tools including continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and distributed version control (e.g., Azure Pipelines/Jenkins, Git)
• Experience leading a team and communicating information at various levels
• Experience working in the Medical Device or other regulated industry
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Digital Engineering
• Experience in defining modeling patterns and/or UML Profiles
• Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Experience with integrating MBSE models with simulation tools (MathWorks, Ansys, Esteco)
• Experience with integrating MBSE models with system-level test automation
• Familiarity with Design for Six Sigma or related product development processes

Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership for the solution
• Lead the transformation of desired outcomes (customer/business needs) into quality solutions for customers
• Drive and monitor the technical content, integrity, and integration of the system
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional partners to achieve technical alignment
• Identify top project technical risks and drive activities to mitigate risk
• Evolve the solution to address learnings from the risk burndown and system integration activities
• Mature solution concepts with cross-functional partners to address trade-offs and allocation to subsystems
• Communicate solution concepts to the core team, business, and cross-functional teams
• Drive organizational alignment of system solutions through influence
• Lead the identification of the Systems Engineering activities, durations, dependencies, and work breakdown structure and delegate appropriate tasks to systems engineers on the project team
• Develop the system engineers on the project team through coaching/mentoring
• Lead the Systems Team supporting the project, responsible for providing technical review and decisions related to the technical content and escalating challenges with recommendations
• Accountable for technical correctness of final delivered solution
• Lead user engagement sessions to collect user inputs
• Define user workflows and drive procedure development solutions
• Drive implementation of the technical aspects of selected solution using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices: define design inputs, define system design, allocate functionality/performance to subsystems, and review subsystem designs
• Define and execute plans to drive maturity of technology and algorithmic features, to reduce risk as necessary
• Develop and Execute System Risk Burn Down Activities to retire risk and demonstrate system capability
• Lead teams to develop and execute a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy
• Establish evaluation & launch strategy (e.g. alpha/beta testing, Key Performance Indicators)
• Define and execute best practices of Systems Engineering processes, advocate for high quality engineering
• Mentor systems engineers on Systems Engineering principles and practices including MBSE, requirement flow down, interface definition, trade-offs and transfer functions, and continuous integration and development
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for Digital Engineering solutions that drive quality and speed
• Drive cross-program alignment in development and use of MBSE capabilities
• Drive strategic initiatives aimed at making our systems engineering processes and tools more efficient

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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal