We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 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

In this exciting role, you will support the development of next-generation sacral and tibial neuromodulation systems. You'll be responsible for leading user research and human factors engineering deliverables, including use-related risk analysis, formative and summative protocols and reports, and usability engineering summaries. This is a highly collaborative position, working closely with cross-functional partners, including systems design and test/integration, marketing, software, labeling, medical education, etc.

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 4 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.

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

• Applies human-centered principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of human-machine systems and products.

• Develops and implements research methodologies and quantitative and qualitative analysis plans to test and evaluate new concepts and developmental prototypes across all phases of product development and processes.

• Designs and executes tests to simulate product use for the purposes of user need investigation, concept exploration/selection/refinement, requirements development, use-related risk identification, and formal usability validation with intended users, with design engineers to establish system design, operating, and training requirements, and to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces and overall user experience.

• Identifies and analyzes technological problems or risks, performs theoretical human factors investigations, and develops and implements research and analysis plans to inform the design direction of new product development.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree 
• 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:

• Strong understanding of usability standards (IEC 62366, ANSI HE75, FDA Human Factors Guidance) and a network of external partners in human factors
• Experience designing and validating class III medical devices
• Experience working directly for medical device manufacturers
• Experience as lead on a human factors regulatory submission, US and/or global
• Experience working with devices involving both software and hardware preferred
• Experience leading human factors teams working on complex development programs

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 to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at t