We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Sep 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

Careers that Change Lives

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Research and Development (R&D) is looking for a Sr. Systems Engineer with a software focus to work in a system engineering role for product development. Medtronic CRM R&D products are complex engineering systems (an implanted pacer, for instance, can transmit device status and diagnostics remotely to a physician for years).

The position responsibilities will focus on system development, integration, verification, and validation for CRM products. You will be responsible for partnering with Systems Engineer peers, Marketing, the Design teams (particularly Software), Quality and Project Management to drive meaningful design inputs, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification and validation 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 position offers excellent opportunity for an engineer interested in designing and executing systems engineering activities to produce reliable and successful products. Candidates should have demonstrated ability to execute independently after receiving high level scope and constraints. Candidates with exposure to systems engineering practice in industry are requested to apply.


This position is on-site in Mounds View, MN.

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 are working onsite 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

In general, the following responsibilities apply to the Sr. Systems Engineer role.  This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Develop, review, and decompose design inputs and system requirements
• Understand customer use cases, workflows, and interactions
• Identify technical risks and support risk burn down plan and activities
• Develop and execute a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy.
• Review and approve engineering reports, protocols, and other documentation
• Execute system testing; troubleshoot test failures, identify source of issue, and collaborate with appropriate partners to for resolution; communicate with internal systems & functional experts at various levels
• Support strategic initiatives aimed at making our systems engineering processes and tools more efficient
• Understand and execute best practices of Systems Engineering processes, advocate for high quality engineering.

Travel Requirements: Travel approximately once per quarter.

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: To be considered for this role, please be sure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical discipline
• 4+ years of relevant experience in industry with bachelor’s degree; OR 2+ years of relevant experience in industry with graduate degree

Nice to Have:

• Demonstrated ability for independent work
• Experience with systems engineering principles
• Experience with software system to device interfaces
• Demonstrated domain knowledge and understands applications to assigned projects
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement by studying and applying technical advances in area of expertise
• Excellent communication skills, including written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Demonstrated Cardiac Rhythm Management domain knowledge
• Experience with behavior-centered design<