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A Day in the Life

The Senior Design Quality Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring product quality, safety, and regulatory compliance throughout the medical device product lifecycle, with a primary focus on product design, development, and sustaining engineering. As the quality representative on cross-functional project teams, you will provide technical leadership in design controls, risk management, verification and validation, and quality system compliance, partnering closely with Research & Development, Manufacturing, Regulatory Affairs, and Supply Chain to deliver safe, effective, and compliant medical technologies.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as the Design Quality representative on new product development and sustaining engineering projects, ensuring compliance with design control and quality system requirements.

• Lead design quality activities, including design controls, risk management (DFMEA, hazard analysis, risk controls), verification and validation strategies, and design traceability.

• Review and approve design documentation, engineering changes, protocols, reports, and technical documentation to ensure product quality and regulatory compliance.

• Partner with R&D and cross-functional teams to develop risk-based verification and validation strategies and assess the quality impact of design changes, nonconformances, and CAPA activities.

• Support design transfer, supplier integration, manufacturing readiness, and product transfers to ensure successful commercialization and sustaining operations.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supplier Quality teams to establish inspection methods, testing strategies, and quality standards that ensure product reliability and performance.

• Support internal and external regulatory inspections and audits, including FDA, ISO 13485, EU MDR, and other applicable regulatory requirements.

• Provide technical quality leadership, influence cross-functional decision-making, and drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance product quality, compliance, and operational excellence.

Location: Lafayette, CO (Onsite)

Onsite: At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary. This role will require <10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

Minimum Requirement (Basic Qualifications):

To be considered for this position, the following Basic Qualifications must be evident on your resume

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technical discipline with minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, OR

• Master’s degree in Engineering or Technical discipline with minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, OR

• PhD in Engineering or Technical discipline with minimum of 0 years of relevant experience.

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