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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

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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As a Sr. Systems Engineer, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to design and develop new systems, implants, and instruments; conducting product and use testing; and managing system interfaces between implant and instrument hardware with enabling technologies. You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into system, product, and interface requirements and specifications; conceptualize system solutions, and manage interfaces through system integration.  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 systems 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. 

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

• Defines spinal systems and features, inclusive of software and hardware components, that meet the expectations and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business.  

• Collects and analyzes voice of the customer and voice of the business to identify opportunities for system development and generate prioritized customer needs. 

• Translates customer needs into specific, well-written, high-quality stakeholder and system requirements.  

• Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and risk analysis of system designs in collaboration with other functional groups.   This includes understanding system interfaces and architecture, defining use cases and conditions, investigating and resolving system issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, performing statistical analysis, and leading system-level testing activities in lab-based cadaveric environments or other formative evaluation settings. 

• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions. 

• Verifies that system requirements have been properly implemented (writing, leveling, tracing) through inspection, demonstration, test or analysis. 

• Leads team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes. 

• Defines and performs system validation activities ensuring the system meets user needs and intended use. 

• Collaborates across R&D roles responsible for development of different system elements and cross-functional partners including marketing, quality, regulatory, and project management. 

• Contributes to and builds domain knowledge around spinal procedures and systems, their clinical use and application, and integration of enabling t