We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 Jul 2025

 

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

 
As a Senior R&D Engineer, you will design and develop life-saving medical device products. Key responsibilities include product development, conducting product testing and creating models and prototypes. You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements and design specifications, and perform bench, clinical and preclinical assessments.  You will work under general direction in a project role and may serve as key functional core team member and/or leadership role in an extended team.  The product focus will be on neurovascular devices.  
 
 
Key Responsibilities:  

• Design and redesign medium to high complexity Neurovascular medical devices and subsystems.
• Test and optimize the design by designing and conducting relevant experiments and evaluations including numerical verification. 
• Prepare full documentation in accordance with relevant internal SOPs and Design Control.
• Participate in cadaver study, pre-clinical in vivo labs, observing cases in hospitals and through planned and unplanned customer interactions.
• Create and evaluate prototypes to generate concept and model approvals.
•  Write engineering reports and create presentations as required to document and communicate results.
• Prepare reports, presentations and spreadsheets of an analytical and interpretative nature.
•  Institute design changes based on internal and external customer feedback.
•  Collaborate with peers to manage the development of appropriate testing to verify product meets internal and external customer requirements.
•  Maintain accountability to the completion of specific programs and projects in accordance to agreed project deliverables.
•  Contribute inventions, new designs and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community.
•  Use advanced techniques to anticipate, identify and develop solutions or alternatives to a variety of common and uncommon problems having a range of complexity.
•  Provide leadership, training and mentorship to less experienced team members. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks/projects with a strong problem solving ability.
• Adhere to safety policy procedures.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, scientific, or technical discipline with a minimum of 4+ years of medical device development experience especially catheter design and testing experiences or an advance degree with 2 years of relevant experience

Experience Needed

• Good understanding of Neurovascular medical device industry and competitor products. Working knowledge of other related disciplines.
•  Good understanding of clinical and regulatory pathways, IP and internal processes.
• Demonstrate ability to take initiative in keeping current with technology developments in specialized area.
• In depth knowledge and wide application of technical principles, theories, and concepts in related field of expertise to develop innovative approaches to work
• General clinical knowledge for uses of product.
• General knowledge of Neurovascular anatomy relative to surgical procedures for specific products.
• Ability to effectively communicate and work cooperatively with others as a lead member of a team. 
• Demonstrated experience sharing information, status, needs, and issues with others in order to inform, gain input, and support decision-making.
• Expertise in catheter development and related processes.
• Equipment and tooling design.

Nice to have

• Experience with Neurovascular products 
• Experience designing catheters and guidewire systems
•  Experience with metal process (braiding, coil, laser cutting, etc.) and polymer (extrusion, injection, blending, reflow, etc.) process, characterization and testing. Understanding on the process and property correlations.

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 succe