Principal Electrical Engineer - Minneapolis
MedtronicAbout the role
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
In this exciting role as a Principal Electrical Engineer within Medtronic's Coronary & Renal Denervation Operating Unit, you'll be an integral part of the Design Assurance team. Our purpose is to increase product development process rigor to ensure robust understanding of designs, documentation of compliance to requirements and timely, high-quality product launches that satisfy patient needs and reduce customer complaint rates. You will have primary focus and responsibility for the validation of design verification test methods for complex electro-mechanical medical devices.
Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of energy based therapeutic medical devices to treat hypertension. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen and participate in the design and development of next generation medical devices.
Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident — we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions. To learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at Medtronic Click Here
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.
Location: Mounds View, MN.
Travel up to 10%.
A Day in the Life
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Responsible for leading the team that is responsible for the validation of Design Verification Test Methods for a new Product Development project for complex electro-mechanical medical devices. Candidate should have experience developing/validating electrical system and subsystem test methods, preferably with an electronic engineering background.
Work within the Design Assurance team and cross-functionally with R&D, clinical, marketing and regulatory to translate design inputs and clinical use conditions into test methods - meeting all stakeholders’ requirements.
Support the development and own the validation of test equipment and fixtures, and where required work closely with suppliers to validate equipment to Medtronic requirements. Manage capital equipment procurement and financial tracking for Design Verification equipment. Automate testing and reduce test method variation to ensure robust and appropriate test methods to demonstrate compliance to Design Inputs.
Lead and successfully complete complex test method validation tasks including operator training, determining appropriate validation study design and sample
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