We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 9 Jun 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

Careers that Change Lives
Impact patient outcomes. Come for a job, stay for a career.

As a Senior Principal R&D Engineer, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to lead new product development; developing and designing implants, instruments, and systems; conducting product and use testing; and managing system interfaces. You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements, design specifications, and mechanical concepts.  You will work under general direction and may serve as key functional core team member or as an engineer on an extended team.  The product focus will be on spinal implants and instrumentation to treat degenerative, deformity, and tumor/trauma conditions. 

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.  We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

Medtronic’s Cranial and Spinal Technologies (CST) Operating Unit is committed to transforming patient care through groundbreaking innovations in neurosurgery and spinal procedures. Our comprehensive portfolio includes spinal implants, robotics-assisted surgical solutions like the Mazor™ Robotic Guidance System, StealthStation™ surgical navigation, and biologics for bone healing, all designed to enhance surgical precision, efficiency, and patient outcomes. Beyond technology, we support surgeons through education, training, and clinical research, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to achieve the best possible results. By continuously driving innovation and collaboration, Medtronic is redefining cranial and spinal care, improving lives worldwide.​​ 

 
Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident – we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.  

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Day in the life:

Plans and implements all aspects of multiple simultaneous designs and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release in accordance with agreed project timelines and NPI Development processes.

Defines medium to high complexity spinal systems and conceptualizes designs that meet the needs and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business under the guidance of the NPI Engineering Program manager and the Therapy Technical Leader.

Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and mitigation of risk of system designs.  This includes understanding system interfaces, use cases and conditions, investigating and resolving system and design issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, and leading testing activities.

Engages with customers (internal and external) to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs

Translates customer needs into stakeholder and system requirements

Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests, experiments, and evaluations, including numerical verification

Defines and performs verification and validation activities ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use

Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results

Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches and training

Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions

Supports documentation throughout all phases of research and development

Participate in with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery

Investigates and evaluates existing technologies

Contributes inventions, new designs, a