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Principal Systems Engineer

Medtronic
Mounds View, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Sept 2025
💰 $192,000/yr

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 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

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.


Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Research & Development (R&D) organization is looking for a motivated engineer with a software background to work as a systems engineer on software systems within a broader medical device ecosystem.   

  

The position responsibilities will focus on system development, integration, verification, and validation for CRM productsYou will be responsible for partnering with systems engineer peers, marketing, product design teams (specifically software engineering teams), quality and program 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. 

 

 

 

Primary Responsibilities 

  • Drive program strategy and execute development, review, and decomposition of design inputs and system requirements 

  • Understand customer use cases, workflows, and interactions  

  • Drive cross functional alignment to define and understand how our software systems interface with other medical device products within the ecosystem 

  • Identify technical risks and lead risk burn down plan and activities 

  • Identify change impacts of software systems to use cases, workflows, and interfaces to other products within the ecosystem 

  • Lead teams to develop and execute a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy. 

  • Lead team to review and approve engineering reports, protocols, and other documentation 

  • Lead team to 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 

  • Mentor systems engineers working on your projects 

  • Drive 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. 

 

 

Required Qualifications 

  • Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience 

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