Principal FPGA Design Engineer (VHDL)
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
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.The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is used for mapping electrical activity in the heart, localizing catheters within the heart chambers, delivering ablation energy to treat heart rhythm disorders, and annotating 3D regions where ablation energy is delivered.
As a Principal Hardware Engineer, you will be developing the next generation technology for treatment of heart rhythm disorders. You will be responsible for developing novel electronics for measuring diagnostic signals and delivering ablation energy. You will work directly with some of the industry's prominent experts in the field of medical device engineering in a fun and collaborative office environment.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing, developing, and testing real-time, high-performance digital/analog electronics and FPGA firmware. The ideal candidate can take ownership of hardware and firmware development on one or more products, work collaboratively with other engineering teams, and mentor less experienced engineers, and is passionate about working on products that will have a positive impact on the lives of millions.
About the Affera Mapping and Ablation System
The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm. You will be working on cutting-edge technology in the electrophysiology field. This role offers a rare chance to be at the forefront of developing groundbreaking technology that can disrupt the industry.
Primary Responsibilities
Conduct research, design, development, and testing of electrical hardware including mixed-signal circuit boards, FPGAs, microcontrollers and electro-mechanical components.
Ensure reliability, develop technical specifications for production, analyze hardware configuration and processing solutions, and test hardware conformance to specifications; may include designing new or modifying existing products.
Other responsibilities as assigned
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
Extensive experience architecting and implementing FPGA code and digital and mixed-signal board design
Experience with FPGA design using VHDL
Understanding of electronic design, analog/digital circuit design
Experience with OrCAD schematic capture and PCB layout tools
Hands-on experience using lab test equipment (e.g. multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic and network analyzers) for system i
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