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Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey.

         

         

Neuroscience organization provides advanced therapies for chronic pain, movement disorders, and other neurological conditions. Through spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and targeted drug delivery systems, we deliver personalized treatments that restore function, reduce symptoms, and improve quality of life worldwide.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship.

As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the continued safety, reliability, and performance of our market-released medical devices. You will serve as a technical leader responsible for evaluating real-world product performance, identifying emerging risks, and driving continuous product improvements across hardware, firmware, and software systems.

Working closely with engineering, manufacturing, medical safety, regulatory, and quality teams, you will transform field data into actionable insights that influence product enhancements, strengthen risk management strategies, and reinforce the trust that patients and clinicians place in our therapies every day.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Lead technical evaluations of field-observed product performance, performing risk assessments aligned with product risk management files and existing mitigations.

• Analyze complaint data, software performance, hardware reliability, labeling considerations, and product trends to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Partner with Medical Safety to assess potential patient harm, estimate occurrence probabilities, and evaluate overall product risk.

• Evaluate the reliability and risk impact of design, manufacturing, supplier, and software changes for commercially released products.

• Serve as the technical representative for post-market quality processes, including Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).

• Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and Medical Safety to investigate field issues and implement effective solutions.

• Develop data-driven recommendations that improve product reliability, patient safety, and long-term product performance.

• Support post-market risk evaluations and decision-making related to containment actions, product corrections, field actions, recalls, and labeling updates when necessary.

• Help shape and continuously improve post-market reliability strategies, processes, and risk management practices.

Location: Rice Creek/Fridley, MN

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.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience,

• OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience,

• OR PhD with 0 years of relevant experience

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience supporting post-market quality, reliability engineering, or product performance for regulated medical devices.

• Knowledge of medical device risk management methodologies, including ISO 14971.

• Experience investigating product complaints, field issues, and CAPA activities.

• Strong analytical sk