We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 24 Mar 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

Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives.

The Senior Validation Engineer plays a critical part in maintaining compliance, enhancing system reliability, and supporting a robust validation lifecycle. They will be responsible for ensuring equipment, systems, and processes consistently perform to established quality and operational standards. The Senior Reliability Engineer develops and maintains key validation documentation, including Master Installation Qualification (IQ) protocols, Master Validation Plans, and Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) plans. They will also perform data analysis and provide statistical insights to support decision‑making and continuous improvement.

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 5 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.

This role is 100% onsite at our Warsaw, IN manufacturing site.

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

• Develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.

• Recommend statistical process controls for achieving required levels of product reliability.

• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.

• Develop and execute equipment, process and validation master plans.

• Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.

• As necessary, propose process improvements to achieve the desired product / component reliability.

• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specify minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile. 

• Requires a Bachelors degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• Create and maintain Master Installation Qualification (IQ) documentation.

• Develop, update, and execute Master Validation Plans.

• Design and execute Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) protocols.

• Execute IQ, OQ, and PQ activities in accordance with approved protocols.

• Perform data analysis and provide statistical feedback and recommendations to cross‑functional teams.

• Support internal and external audit responses related to IQ, OQ, and PQ activities.

• Conduct or assist with cleaning validation activities, as required.

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 individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required