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Senior Design Quality Engineer - Irvine

Medtronic
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Jul 2026
💰 $160,800/yr($107,200/yr$160,800/yr)

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 Aug 2026


 

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.

Our Neurovascular operating unit advances treatment of stroke, brain aneurysms, and vascular disorders through innovative endovascular technologies. With devices designed for revascularization, embolization, and precise intervention, we support clinicians in delivering timely, effective care for complex neurovascular conditions. 

Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic Neurovascular

As a Neurovascular Sr. Design Quality Engineer, you will have responsibility for directly contributing to the design of life-saving Neurovascular devices.

You will integrate into every aspect of new product development, processes, and planning to deliver world-class and high-quality treatments. Problems and issues faced are difficult, complex, often undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis, and investigation. Critical thinking and curiosity are vital to finding timely solutions to ensure optimal performance and safety.

 

As a voice of the patient, Design Quality Engineers at Medtronic go well beyond meeting internal and external requirements; they actively integrate into the design team and personally contribute to the technical design and performance.  

 

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.  

Ability to travel up to:  <25% (domestic and international)

 

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

  • Direct contribution and hands-on collaboration with R&D and Process Development to influence and contribute to the design of cutting-edge medical devices.
  • Flexes with other Quality Engineers to provide targeted support depending on project phase.
  • Mentor other engineers and be mentored.
  • Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
  • Apply Design for Manufacturability and Reliability principles.
  • Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
  • Identifies and manages risk throughout the product lifecycle with the application of risk management tools. 
  • Completes risk analysis studies of new designs and processes.
  • Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
  • Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer, and governmental agency reliability objectives.
  • As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
  • May serve as Core Reliability and Quality Engineer for R&D Programs 
  • Oversees Validation & Verification activities.

Must Have (Minimum Requirements)

  • Bachelor’s degree (Engineering or Science) required <

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