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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

In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”

         

         

Medtronic is looking for a Senior systems engineer to join the Systems Engineering Team within the newly formed Surgical Operation Unit. This role will collaborate across the Surgical OU Research and Development organization to bring innovative new medical devices to patients. The successful candidate will work with a cross functional team to execute functional decompositions, customer and product requirement development, and system and subsystem architecture documentation. She or he will also actively participate or lead trade-off studies, prototype evaluations, and clinical acceptability studies.

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

• Report to a Systems Engineer Manager within the Systems Center of Excellence of the Surgical Operating Unit, R&D division.
• Translate user needs and business inputs to customer and stakeholder requirements.
• Analyze use cases, document product lifecycle, and define use conditions.
• Perform functional analysis and functional allocation; develop and manage product requirements; document system and subsystem architecture.
• Partner with design quality assurance in risk management activities including preliminary hazard analyses and risk mitigation strategies.
• Employ Model Based Systems Engineering to document and communicate system design.
• Oversee, and be deeply acquainted with, regulated development processes and standards for risk management, usability, and safety to ensure systems design and documentation meet relevant safety and regulatory standards.
• Hands-on work with the Robotic System to evaluate user facing behavior.
• Support Systems Engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle including design change impact analysis, labelling and packaging requirements, field issue investigation.
• Investigate system integration issues to identify root cause and propose resolution.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with 4 years of engineering experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of engineering experience.

Nice to Have

• Advanced knowledge of Systems Engineering principals and best practices
• Experience in requirements management, risk management, and system architecture documentation.
• Experience developing complex electromechanical medical devices.
• Strong grasp of design controls and good documentation practices.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and contribute to a cross functional team.
• Strong communication skills

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable in