Sr. Prin. Development Engineer - Medtronic plc : Job Details

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit. Make your impact by exploring a career with the world's leading Medical Device company, striving to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

You would be joining our Product Development Organization as a Sr. Prin. Development Engineer responsible for the Verification Strategy, Requirement Decomposition, and Specification Development for our robotic projects in development. To us, Verification is not just the last step on the path to commercialization; this role becomes an integral core team member in the Concept phase of the project. You will be responsible for partnering with Systems Engineering, Marketing, the design teams, Quality and Project Management to drive meaningful product requirements, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification strategy. Along the path to launch, you will become a technical contributor towards the success of the product and help establish best-practices and innovative approaches towards proving that our products meet the expectations of the Medtronic Mission.

The responsibilities of this role will include the following:

• Develop and drive a robust and efficient Design Verification strategy for product requirements
• Author or review/approve Design Verification protocols and reports
• Champion studies and/or activities that drive robust design, such as design of experiments, transfer function development, and simulations
• Lead cross-functional failure investigations and analysis
• Partner with System Engineering to develop, review and decompose product requirements
• Represent the development engineering function on product development extended core teams
• Mentor junior and senior development engineers working on your projects, and provide feedback on engineering reports, verification protocols, and verification reports
• Liaison with Reliability, Compliance (60601), Hardware (Electrical and Mechanical), and Software teams for your projects
• Support the development of regulatory submissions for your projects
• Support QMS and/or DHF audits as the development engineer SME on those projects
• Support changes made to your projects post-launch

Working on the Medtronic Campus in North Haven, CT or Boston, MA, you are responsible for driving product development activities in support of surgical robotics platform, including:

• Review and provide input to the development of product requirements
• Review, provide input to and approve test methods
• Design studies and experiments to gain confidence in meeting product requirements
• Analyze test data
• Author Engineering Analyses and Reports
• Plan verification activities
• Author Design Verification Protocols and Reports
• Troubleshoot failures and make recommendations on design, test, or requirement improvements
• Mentor junior engineers on all of the above
• Champion continuous improvement projects, such as implementing new SOPs or WIs related to development engineering

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree and 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in robotics engineering or related field and 8 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

• A minimum of 8 years of experience with direct medical device development
• Experience with developing a product according to System Engineering principles
• A strong understanding of Regulatory requirements for Design Controls and Design Verification
• Industry experience with statistical methods and analysis of data to perform Design Verification
• Experience with robotics or electro-mechanical systems
• Proven track record of contributing to medical devices of high complexity
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills

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.

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

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.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.