We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 20 Nov 2025

 

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.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

As a Principal Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and expert in designing, developing, and integrating complex electrical systems for Medtronic's Surgical Hardware products within the Released Product Engineering group located in Lafayette, CO. This role provides a unique opportunity to work on challenging projects, mentor team members, and contribute directly to life-changing technologies. You will work cross-functionally with teams in mechanical engineering, software development, quality assurance, and manufacturing to drive projects from concept through commercialization, with a focus on technology development. Your work will help Medtronic achieve its mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions of patients worldwide.

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

• Contribute to the design, development, and testing of mixed-signal electrical systems and circuits for medical devices, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory standards (e.g., IEC 60601-1, -1-2, & -2-2).  
• Develop detailed specifications, schematics, and PCB layouts, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to meet design and performance requirements.  
• Ensure reliability, develop technical specifications for design and production, and test hardware conformance to specifications; may include designing new or modifying existing products.   
• Contribute to technical project planning, establish timelines, define deliverables, and proactively identify and mitigate potential risks. 
• Perform design verification testing and validation to ensure compliance with industry standards and product requirements.
• Assist manufacturing with issues stemming from hardware quality issues
• Conduct detailed analysis, simulation, and modeling to ensure performance requirements are met.
• Review costumer complaint trends and determine if a quality problem exists
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
• Working in a Regulatory / FDA controlled product development environment
• Providing input to departmental planning and resource activities
• Presenting project status to management and teams
• Other responsibilities as assigned  

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy

• Recognized expert in HW engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, SW and Firmware), managing large projects or processes.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level specialists.
• Organizational Impact
• Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
• May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
• Ability to work in a team environment and desire to lead/mentor other engineers
• Work with other groups in support of hardware issues including electrical, mechanical, SW and FW.

Innovation and Complexity

• Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.
• Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
• Implements solutions to problems.
• Ability to handle multiple projects at the same time