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 value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Medtronic pioneered the field of Neuromodulation with the first commercially available Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) to treat chronic pain and engineered the first deep brain stimulation (DBS) system to treat disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.  We have gone on to develop the first implantable drug pump for the delivery of medication directly to the intrathecal space of the spine, inventing the first balloon kyphoplasty devices for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures and developing RF ablation systems to treat spinal tumors.

Within the R&D Department at Medtronic Neuromodulation, one key area of focus for reducing pain for patients is Interventional Pain. Interventional Pain develops minimally invasive therapies that treat musculoskeletal pathologies such as vertebral compression fractures, nerve pain, metastatic and benign bone tumors. The employee will be part of a team that defines, develops and tests new products for the Neuromodulation business.

Employee responsibilities may include the following:

• Utilize computational modeling & simulation to develop new test methods; integrate materials and processes; characterize device performance
• Analyze computational modeling & simulation results, distill key findings, and translate into conclusions
• Work collaboratively with front-end R&D, product development teams and as well as with cross-functional team members to bring new products to market
• Support the maintenance of commercially released products on an as needed basis
• Develop & utilize structural finite-element modeling tools for design and evaluation of device/s.
• Implement general mechanical design and solid/fluid mechanics fundamentals to drive product development for treatment of musculoskeletal diseases
• Prepare reports and presentations to communicate technical assessments and analysis results
• Actively contribute to design reviews and technical reviews with cross-functional partners
• Manage project assignments and collaborate with other stakeholders to achieve desired results
• Generate technical reports for submission to regulatory agencies
• Effectively communicate and present technical concepts cross-functionally
• Coach and guide junior engineers or technicians working on the projects

QUALIFICATIONS SECTION

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Master’s or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, or related discipline with a research focus on modeling biological systems
• Advanced knowledge of heat and mass transfer with heat propagation in biological tissue preferred, basic electrical engineering principles, and interaction between electrical currents and biological tissue
• Solid knowledge of anatomy with focus on central nervous system/spinal cord
• Foundation in applied mathematics and lumped modelling approach of transient problems
• Basic knowledge of lumped modeling for energy-based systems such as block and cylindrical modeling
• Ability to solve basic heat transfer equations and knowledge of convection/conduction properties of materials (fluids and solids) 
• Demonstrated working knowledge of ANSYS CFD tools (AEDT, ICEPAK, FLUENT)
•  Demonstrate working knowledge of thermal management solutions such as heat sink, heat pipes, spreaders, liquid cooling basics 
• Thermal testing and data acquisition using basic DAQ boards, fixturing, data collection in both steady state and transient. 
• Dynamic team player who can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have

• History working in regulated industries such as medical device or ability to quickly embrace and learn and follow policies and procedures that comply with regulations and standards from regulatory bodies
• Computer simulation of advanced biomaterial interaction with tissue preferably ANSYS simulation package 
• Advanced knowledge of CFD/Heat Transfer and Multiphysics 
• Ability to conduct virtual DOE and physical DOEs (reduced order models, transfer functions) – virtual twin modeling and running physical DOEs (evaluation of main effects, interactions, bias, experimental