We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 5 Jan 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

Electro/Mechanical Engineer on the PVH RPM Team - Careers That Change Lives

Serve as a leader to design, develop and provide technical expertise in post-market released medical devices. Lead released product engineering teams through planning, developing, and performing testing and analysis during product change implementation to drive improved product performance and manufacturability, reduce cost, and/or ensure supply continuity. Partner with Quality, internal Manufacturing, Suppliers including CM/OEM, Marketing, Regulatory Affairs and other key functions to achieve business goals. This role is an individual contributor within Medtronic’s Cardio Vascular Group and Peripheral Vascular Health business.

The Cardiac and Vascular Group brings all our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. Our Peripheral Vascular Health Business focuses on transforming vascular disease management.

The role will start in Plymouth MN but the PVH team is in the process of moving to our Rice Creek West facility in mid 2026.

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 are working onsite a minimum of 4 days per week 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 will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

As a Principal R&D Engineer, you will focus on maintaining design integrity through the post-market lifecycle of products. This role supports and sometimes leads projects which are in alignment with manufacturing operations or R&D sponsored initiatives. The role requires effective management and prioritization of multiple concurrent projects and tasks in an ambiguous environment.

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

• Represents the R&D organization as a design technical contact for a specific product platform; provides design technical guidance and consultation throughout cross-functional team projects to ensure effective planning, execution, and completion
• Coaches, reviews and/or delegates work to lower level specialists
• Reviews, assesses impact to assure design requirements are continuously met, and approves design and manufacturing process changes
• Defines, plans, and executes on owned design control evidence deliverables and across led projects (including CAPA projects)
• Maintains electrical, firmware, and software designs by updating drawings and design documentation to the latest national and international standards
• Performs or guides lower level personnel in circuit analysis, schematic entry and updates, PCB layout updates, executing design sample and equipment preparation and testing; electrical laboratory equipment typically used includes oscilloscopes, electrical safety test equipment, thermocouple calibration, variable impedance loads, and others
• Develops, troubleshoots, configures, and implements electrical/mechanical tests; uses statistical and structured problem-solving techniques, experimental design methodologies and analytical modeling, facts, and data to promote and facilitate problem definition, investigation for root cause, the design of medical devices, and/or the basis for change implementation
• Creates and ensures detailed, accurate, and compliant engineering documentation in support of changes; examples are: measurable and verifiable product specifications and mechanical drawings, change orders, dFMEA, and Installation Qualification, Test Method Validation, and Design Characterization/Verification/Validation Testing protocols and reports
• Supports analysis and evaluation of returned products
• Provides input to regulatory submissions
• Communicates status frequently
• Performs job functions in accordance with applicable standards, such as GMP, IEC and ISO standards; ensures understanding of all quality policy/system items that are personally applicable; trains to and follows all quality policy/system work-related procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work
• Designs, de