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Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer (Affera)

Medtronic
Mounds View, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Jul 2025
💰 $252,000/yr

About the role


 

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

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.

About the Affera Mapping and Ablation System 

The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm. 

 

Primary Responsibilities 

  • Be a technical representative with firsthand knowledge of capital manufacturing – system and manufacturing process  

  • Responsible for capacity and incremental design improvements 

  • Responsible for Next Gen Capital System Design to enable feature expansion, system reliability, and cost down, utilizing DRM principles 

  • Utilize rigorous DRM approach to manufacturing, design, and field improvements, including post market issue support 

  • Conducts research, design, development, and testing of electrical or mechanical hardware  

  • Ensures reliability, develops technical specifications for production, analyzes hardware configuration and processing solutions, and tests hardware conformance to specifications; may design new or modify existing products  

 

Required Qualifications 

  • Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience 
     

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Expertise in Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM) 

  • Knowledge of capital manufacturing – system and manufacturing process 

  • Strong technical and problem-solving background

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.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

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