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Sr Principal Hardware Electrical Engineer

Medtronic
North Haven, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Jun 2025
💰 $252,000/yr

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 Jul 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

Senior Principal Electrical Design Engineer - Robotic Surgical Technologies Released Product Engineering

You will be a key member of the Medtronic Engineering team responsible for developing Medtronic’s Robotic Assisted Surgery platform through commercial launch and production scale-up, impacting patient outcomes.
The Medical Surgical Group strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions. The Surgical Operating Unit sets the standard for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) by creating innovative surgical products and services.

A Day in the Life

The Senior Principal Electrical Design Engineer is a primary contributor within the Medtronic R&D released product engineering (RPE) team to support released Robotic Capital Platforms for Medtronic’s Robotic Surgery Technology platform.

This Senior Principal Electrical Design Engineer is a key contributor in a fast-paced environment, working within a team as a technical lead to deliver advanced technical expertise and solutions to complex engineering problems.

Working Conditions
• Standard office setting, surgical lab, R&D lab, external research organizations, supplier visits, limited travel as required.
• Based in North Haven, CT, USA
Day in the Life
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Acting as first point of contact for Released Product Engineering (EE HW Design) in order to:
• Provide rapid response for line-down issues.
• Coordinate between R&D subject matter experts and other Released Product Engineering counterparts.
• Maintain electrical/electromechanical products and capital medical equipment.
• Participate in EE hardware deliverables of the Change Development Process for capital medical equipment.
• Determine change impact on electrical/electromechanical design and document rationale
• Maintain bill of materials using product lifecycle management software (Agile)
• Perform electrical analyses to evaluate product performance and safety
• Compose engineering drawings, reports and presentations to document and communicate design deliverables and analyses
• Collaborate with the Medtronic R&D new product development engineering team who will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting the next generation of capital equipment for the minimally invasive surgical robotic platform.
• Interact and negotiate with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and external partners
• Provide guidance, coaching and mentoring to junior members of the team
• Researches, plans, designs, verifies, validates and develops electrical and/or electromechanical products and systems, such as PCBAs, Power Architecture, Visualization systems, Networking, Sensor Measurement, Motor Control, Robots, eat transfer systems for production, transmission, measurement, and use of energy.
• Leverages expert understanding of engineering principles and practices, product safety and root cause analysis to design and develop product hardware.
• Works on highly complex technical problems and provides solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious to a broad range of problems.
• Recommends various technology options or approaches for system, processes, facility or program improvements in terms of safety, performance, efficiency or costs.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Demonstrated proficiency in working in electrical engineering or computer engineering or related discipline;
• Demonstratable experience bringing hardware designs from concept through production, including coordinating with contract PCBA manufacturers;
• Advanced knowledge of analog circuit design, digital circuit design, or embedded system design.
• Experience with the following software packages: Agile, Jama, Jira, Confluence, Cadence OrCAD/Allegro
• Medical device or laboratory analytical device experience
• Experience with Medical Battery Pack Design
• Experience with class II and class III medical device FDA submissions (PMA, 510(k), etc.)
• Experience with Field Corrective Actions and/or Corrective Actions – Preventative Actions as they pertain to launched medical equipment
• Thorough understanding of engineering practices, product safety, problem solving and root cause analysis
• In depth knowledge and wide application of technical principles, theories, an

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