Careers that Change Lives

In this role, you will be responsible for the overall technical development of Neuromodulation products from early feasibility through to market release. Neuromodulation products provide therapy for a variety of conditions including Chronic Pain, Cancer Pain, Severe Spasticity, Epilepsy, Dystonia, Essential Tremor, and Parkinson's Disease. Products include implantable and external neurostimulators, implantable infusion pumps, and associated device recharge and programming instruments.

You will work closely with a cross-functional engineering team to synthesize feature needs and technology trends into product requirements and design specifications, provide technical development direction, guide verification test activities, and facilitate risk assessment and mitigation activities throughout development. You will also work closely with manufacturing and supplier partners to ensure seamless flow of requirements, specifications, and risk analyses, and help synchronize process activities with the larger development effort.

Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

You can grow your career with us; we hope you'll consider joining our team!

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develop and execute the overall product technical development strategy.
• Partner with Systems, Labeling, Marketing, Regulatory, and other functions to define and deliver product design that meets customer and system needs and ensure functional product interfaces.
• Derive product requirements and allocate design and verification responsibilities.
• Identify technical development risks, develop and execute risk burn-down plans.
• Facilitate cross-functional engineering and project team communication to drive design decisions, align on test strategies, review test results, identify technical issues and manage their resolution.
• Conduct and maintain design failure modes and effects analyses.
• Partner with suppliers and finished device manufacturers regarding requirements and risk flow-down; drive alignment of process development maturity with design maturity for build and test plans.
• Establish design verification plans and ensure technical rigor throughout development execution.
• Support regulatory body submissions and facilitate knowledge transfer to continuation engineering teams.
• Synthesize feature needs and technology trends into hardware technology roadmaps.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in tech field required
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

• Bachelor's Degree in in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or similar discipline.
• Experience with design requirements development and structure.
• Product Risk Assessment and Risk Management Experience (Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, etc.).
• Collaboration experience with Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, and/or Biomedical Design Engineers.
• Experience working with Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Processes.
• Product development experience (concept to market release).
• Familiarity with International Standards applicable to medical devices, such as ISO 14708-1 or IEC 60601.
• Project Management experience.

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.

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 .

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here .

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico. Base pay is based on numerous factors and may vary by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, etc. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

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, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)