Systems Engineer II, Product Development

Medtronic•Fort Worth, TX

3d•$88,800 - $133,200

About The Position

As a Systems Engineer II, Product Development within the Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) organization you will utilize your technical expertise in solving complex problems and in designing solutions involving powered surgical systems, electrosurgical systems, anatomical imaging, and computer-assisted and robotic-assisted surgery technology to improve patient outcomes and surgical efficiency.

Requirements

A Bachelors’ degree in an Engineering or Science Discipline with 2 years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree
Extensive experience within product development

Nice To Haves

Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques.
Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, and system design.
Experience in planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams.
Experience with hardware design, mechanical design, mechanical, tolerance analysis, and computer-aided design (CAD).
Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions.
Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.
Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art
Project management skills, including leading a project team as well as planning and estimation of tasks, milestones, resources, and budget.
Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.
Ability to drive change – including design practices and processes – throughout the organization.
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

Work within a cross-functional team to design, develop, test, and document innovative product and system solutions utilizing hardware and software components.
Assist in the definition and development of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture for new product development initiatives.
Assist in engineering analyses to optimize and select system-level concepts to ensure the final solution fulfills needs, requirements, use cases, environments, and the overall system vision.
Assist in the planning and execution of user evaluations in lab-based surgical environments or other formative evaluation events to gain insightful feedback on system concepts.
Support the team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes throughout the product development lifecycle.
Troubleshoot system component integration and support surgical procedure introduction of the design.
Provide technical leadership along with technical and clinical procedure subject matter expertise to internal and cross-business product development teams.