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Principal Clinical Engineer - Neuromodulation Operating Unit 

Company Overview: Medtronic is a leader in the field of neuromodulation, continuously innovating groundbreaking therapies and technologies. We are committed to improving patient outcomes and enhancing the quality of life through our advanced medical devices and solutions. 

Position Summary: The Principal Clinical Engineer plays a crucial role on a human-centered design team within the Neuromodulation Operating Unit of Medtronic to develop and deploy innovative medical technologies.  Specifically, the person is part of the UX/HF Engineering team, a component of the System Solutions team. The primary responsibilities will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading clinical strategy and testing, and ensuring the integration of clinical insights into product development.  This person will be instrumental in driving the clinical experience of our products, validating new features, and ensuring their successful deployment and adoption in the clinical field. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: 

• Partner with upstream marketing, clinical research, research & technology, advanced product development, and therapy business leaders to define field challenges and drive respective technological solutions. 

• Collaborate with internal development teams (engineering, regulatory, human factors, quality, marketing) to align and integrate clinical insights. 

• Nurture relationships with key opinion leaders, professional societies, neuromodulation community and the field. 

• Clinically relevant Testing: 

• Support testing of R&D prototypes through realistic scenario definition 

• Simulate real-world use cases to evaluate prototypes and design outputs against customer requirements from the field environment 

• Analyze clinical and post-launch product performance data from the field to drive design inputs into development projects. 

• Burndown clinically-relevant program and technical risk to mature the product through development 

• Develop and validate clinically-relevant algorithms and product features. 

• Plan and execute early iterative-learning cycles or validation activities for successful outcomes in later formal validation activities. 

• Plan and drive iterative assessment of design maturity with HCPs, field reps, and other clinical stakeholders. 

• Provide input to risk management files and evaluate customer satisfaction and system performance through end-user testing. 

• Market and Product Development: 

• Discover unmet needs and review user needs selected for product development 

• Map user needs to system requirements, design specifications and testing protocols 

• Drive clinical workflows into journey maps  

• Define the use cases of the product that focus on the clinical experience as part of the UX team 

• Contribute to clinical evaluation plans and reports throughout the product lifecycle 

• Participate in setting goals and objectives for projects 

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