As a Senior Systems Engineer at Medtronic, you will apply critical thinking and technical expertise to solve complex systems interaction problems, specifically within the ENT field. You will play a pivotal role across the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to market release, collaborating closely with diverse cross-functional teams to bring innovative medical products to life.
A Day in the Life
You will be instrumental in the development of cutting-edge medical technology by:
- Providing expertise in multiple roles across the product development lifecycle, leveraging deep knowledge of system functionality.
- Collaborating closely with R&D Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, and Marketing to guide products from ideation to market release.
- Advising project management, clearly communicating product risk/benefit trade-offs.
- Leading cross-functional teams to make timely decisions and recommendations for successful project completion.
- Executing various systems engineering activities, including identification, planning, monitoring, and task execution for the entire project.
- Developing Business and Customer Needs for new products in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Designing or supporting the development of a systems architecture aligned with business and customer needs.
- Contributing to defining new technologies through deep knowledge of ENT.
- Supporting or 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 Systems Engineering as the prime technical contact on projects and initiatives, interacting with senior personnel on significant technical matters.
- Providing input for regulatory body submissions and audits.
- Defining interface requirements between systems (software, firmware, hardware, mechanical) for assigned features.
- Maintaining traceability of requirements documentation using relational database tools like DOORS, Reqview, Jira, Polarion, Cognition Cockpit, or CodeBeamer.
- Ensuring product lifecycle understanding is integrated into design requirements and managing changes to interfaces.
- Managing configuration compatibility throughout the product lifecycle.
- May be involved in preclinical trials to investigate life science questions.
Required Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
- Understanding, defining, and designing to use cases.
- Experience with requirement management/PLM tools.
- Knowledge of biomedical sensors, software development, and 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 and wireless communication protocols.
- Experience with 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.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. We are committed to our employees, recognizing their contributions and providing resources to support them at every career and life stage. This position is eligible for the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
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.
