As a Principal Systems Engineer at Medtronic, you will be instrumental in defining, verifying, and validating complex Integrated Power Console systems, particularly within the ENT field. This role demands a deep understanding of system functionality and the ability to translate customer needs into robust engineering requirements. You will apply critical thinking to solve complex interaction problems, lead cross-functional teams, and navigate the entire product development lifecycle from ideation to market release, ensuring innovative and compliant medical solutions.
A Day in the Life
You will drive the development of cutting-edge medical technologies by:
- Completing system engineering activities focused on defining, verifying, and validating Integrated Power Console systems through subsystem, feature, and technology integration.
- Identifying customer needs and translating them into precise engineering requirements for system definition.
- Developing system architecture, performing partitioning, and driving overall system development.
- Leading technical risk management activities, including foreseeing problems and providing alternative solutions.
- Executing multiple systems engineering activities across the product development lifecycle, including planning, monitoring, and task execution for the entire project.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to develop Business and Customer Needs for new product development.
- Designing or supporting the development of a systems architecture that aligns product development with business and customer needs.
- Contributing to defining new technologies through extensive knowledge in ENT.
- Leading key design trade-offs for assigned features, presenting to project management, and driving decisions.
- Creating or supporting the development of a program risk burn-down profile and system integration strategy.
- Representing the Systems Engineering organization as the prime technical contact on projects and initiatives, interacting with senior Medtronic and external personnel.
- Providing input supporting submissions to and audits for regulatory bodies and governmental agencies.
- Defining interface requirements between systems (e.g., software, firmware, hardware, mechanical) for assigned features.
- Maintaining traceability of requirements documentation using modern relational database tools like DOORS, Reqview, Jira, Polarion, Cognition Cockpit, and CodeBeamer (CodeBeamer experience is a plus).
- Ensuring product lifecycle understanding is included in design requirements and managing changes to interfaces.
- Managing configuration compatibility throughout the product lifecycle.
- May be involved in product preclinical trials to investigate specific life science questions.
Required Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor's degree required with a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 13 years of relevant experience.
- Understanding, defining, and designing to use cases.
- Experience with requirement management/PLM tools.
- Knowledge of biomedical sensors, software development, wireless communications.
- Experience in ENT research and usability testing.
- Understanding and experience in design, development, and testing of embedded, electro-mechanical medical devices.
- Experience with general electronic bench test equipment: oscilloscopes, DMMs, Data Acquisition devices.
- Experience with IEC 60601-1.
- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering.
- Experience with Minitab, Python, R, or Power BI for statistics and data analysis.
- Experience with capital equipment, wireless communication protocols, and cybersecurity.
- Experience with product concept development, customer interaction, systems engineering, verification of engineering requirements, and validation of customer needs/design requirements.
- Working knowledge of systems engineering principles, requirements management, and medical device regulation.
- Demonstrated strength in written and verbal communication, judgment, decision-making, and critical thinking.
- Demonstrated strength in building strong relationships at all organizational levels, cross-functionally, and with key external partners.
- Practical knowledge of project management.
- Strong leadership skills and the capability to make trade-offs between risks, benefits, and performance.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. We are committed to our employees, recognizing their contributions and providing a wide range of benefits and resources to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
Medtronic leads global healthcare technology, boldly addressing the most challenging health problems by finding innovative solutions. Our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate individuals. We are engineers at heart, committed to experimenting, creating, building, improving, and solving, leveraging diverse talent and perspectives to engineer the extraordinary.
