We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 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

Principal Reliability Engineer

Careers That Change Lives

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday, and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

The Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Operating Unit offers devices and therapies that treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure. We are comprised of three businesses:

• Cardiac Pacing Therapies

• Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Services

• Defibrillation Solutions

We put people first in all we do as we remain on the leading edge of innovation to ensure that we treat more people year over year. We excel in how we operate to deliver the best experiences for people who touch our therapies.

In this exciting role as a Post Market Principal Reliability Engineer, you will have responsibility for ensuring our Cardiac Pacing Technologies (CPT) products exceed the safety and reliability requirements and expectations of patients, clinicians, regulators, and the business.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Operating Unit. 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 are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

A Day in the Life       

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Principal Reliability Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Lead risk analysis studies of design and processes to understand how potential quality issues may be contributing to product quality or patient safety risk.
• Authoring risk assessments and technical reports to document analysis results or quality impact.
• Review and approve changes to hardware/software designs and development processes and assess their impact in order to ensure reliability requirements are met.
• Understand product performance, function(s), and product use environments to appropriately and strategically apply technical knowledge, reliability tools, and reliability methodologies to drive reliability improvements.
• Perform systematic reliability analysis against features, requirements, architecture, interfaces, and designs, through the appropriate application of reliability engineering techniques (e.g. fault tree analysis, failure trending and analysis, reliability forecasting, etc.) to understand product and process robustness.
• Conducts evaluation of finished product systems including requirements, design, development, documentation, integration, test, verification, and validation.  Interpret and decompose system and product requirements, verify compliance.
• Evaluates designs for potential failure modes, assesses potential hazards and harms, prioritizes safety risks, identifies appropriate risk controls, and compiles evidence to demonstrate benefits outweigh product risks.

Qualifications

Must Have - Minimum Requirements

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor’s degree required in engineering, math, science, or a technical discipline
• Minimum of 7years of technical experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Proficiency with data analysis using reliability tools and statistical techniques
• Manufacturing experience
• Implantable medical device industry experience
• Advanced degree in Engineering or suitable Clinical/Field Support, Safety or Reliability Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Design Engineering, or Product Development Engineering experience  <