We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 27 Apr 2026

 

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 is looking for a Senior Principal Engineer with extensive experience driving technical excellence in fast-paced, highly regulated environments, leveraging deep domain expertise and strategic thinking to deliver innovative, high-impact solutions. The successful candidate should have experience guiding complex engineering initiatives and leading root cause investigations to resolve critical issues while supporting improvements in quality, service, capability, and cost.  In this role, you will be responsible for identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, introducing forward-thinking solutions, and influencing cross-functional teams to achieve operational and business objectives. Recognized for balancing hands-on problem solving with long-term strategy to enhance product performance, reliability, and organizational effectiveness. 

 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Lead Root Cause investigations to resolve issues and support quality, service, capability and cost improvements. 

• Strategic Thinking - Think strategically and bring new solutions to drive continuous improvements. 

• Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in a manufacturing area. 

• Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques, as well as production yields for existing products. 

• Integrates equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications. 

• Reviews product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules. 

• Interacts with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible. 

• May develop and conduct statistical analysis or recommend additions to document work. 

• Leads the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations. 

• This can include scouting and feasibility work, material selection, process and equipment selection, tooling / fixture and equipment installation and assessment of inputs, outputs and alignment to requirements. 

• Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques including the measurement systems. 

• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.