Careers that Change Lives

Join the Medtronic Systems Engineering team in bringing new products to market that help people living with diabetes more easily and successfully manage their diabetes. Patients, their loved ones, and their healthcare providers all take an active role in helping the patient managing their diabetes. New technologies and access to information are making things possible that open innovative and game changing systems possible. At Medtronic Diabetes, we work in the challenging space where medical devices are in the hands of everyday people and those people expect the state-of-the-art technology to help make things easier and more connected.

As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will gather and quantify use conditions impacting our next gen diabetes therapy systems.

About - Diabetes Business Group

The Diabetes Group is working with the global community to change the way people manage diabetes. Together, we will transform diabetes care by expanding access, integrating care, and improving outcomes, so people with diabetes can enjoy greater freedom and better health.

We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

A Day in the Life

• Work withs to identify new, unique, and difficult (NUD) use conditions impacting next gen diabetes therapy systems and products project core team.
• Maintain a repository of stressors and create deliverables using use conditions data including P-diagrams and Use Condition Matrices. Create detailed execution plans and schedules to quantify and assess NUD use conditions.
• Develop test setups and fixturing for data collection.
• Review white papers and standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to assess system and product reliability.
• Develop empirical models and perform statistical analysis to quantify stressors.
• Develop and execute simulation models using Simulink, Stateflow, or other simulation tools.

• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems.
• Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Scientific discipline and 7+ years of technical engineering professional experience
• Or, advanced degree in Engineering or Scientific discipline and 4+ years of technical engineering professional experience

• Knowledge of system and software engineering architecture principles, concepts, and best practices.
• Experience in coordinating technology designs with architectural requirements and constraints
• Demonstrated experience generating technical documentation such as requirements, specifications, engineering reports, plans & procedures.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in product development.
• Experience in embedded devices design, development, verification, and documentation.
• Experience with development in a regulated industry such as medical device, defense, or automotive.
• Experience with MBSE tools such as Enterprise Architect or MagicDraw.
• Experience with simulation tools such as Simulink and Stateflow.
• Experience with empirical modeling and systems analysis.
• Experience in applying statistical methodology using tools such as Minitab, Crystal Ball and Discover Sim.
• Experience in data logging and field data collection.
• Skilled at communicating findings and learnings to project leaders and cross-functional partners, collaborate with other BU, good communication skills.
• Influence and promote use conditions.
• Knowledge of hardware and software stress conditions, environments (for example: pressure, humidity, temperature), and industry standards.
• Demonstrated experience designing fixturing and wearable hardware for data collection.
• Experience in developing and executing user studies, surveys and methodologies to help quantify use conditions.
• Experience in determining stress distributions and using applied statistics to inform robust design and reliability performance requirements.

ABOUT MEDTRONIC:

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

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. Learn more about our benefits here .

In addition to Base Salary, this position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan, which provides the opportunity to earn significant incentive compensation for achieving or exceeding your goals. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here .