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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

Senior R&D 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.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Medtronic's Structural Heart and Aortic operating unit to work with a dedicated team focused on the development and expansion of our new transcatheter heart valve replacement system. In this role, the Senior Engineer will be responsible for clinical and preclinical image analysis to support use condition assessment, product development, and predictive modeling. Activities will include image analysis of pre-, intra-, and post-procedural images, method development including measurement automation with python and/or MATLAB, collaboration with physics-modeling engineers, design engineers and test engineers, project management, validation, preclinical support, and documentation of methodologies.

The Structural Heart and Aortic integrated operating unit offer minimally invasive approaches to restore proper structure and function of the heart and the aorta. We focus on the transcatheter replacement or repair of the four heart valves—aortic, pulmonic, mitral, tricuspid—and the placement of stent grafts to treat aneurysms and dissections of the body’s largest artery, the aorta.

Key Technologies:

Evolut™ PRO and PRO+ TAVR systems

Melody™ Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve

Harmony™ Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve

Intrepid™ Transcatheter Valve System

Endurant™ II/IIs AAA Stent Graft System

Valiant Captivia™ Thoracic Stent Graft System

Heli-FX endoanchor system

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.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Structural Heart and Aortic (SH&A) 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.

A Day in the Life

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior R&D Engineer.  This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Contribute to the anatomical database to support aortic and structural heart disease research and development.
• Apply expertise in specialist 3D software to reconstruct, segment and analyze human and animal anatomical datasets collected with MR, CT, biplane fluoroscopy or ultrasound scans.
• Write and edit measurement scripts in Python and MATLAB
• Support product development teams with preclinical activities and research and technology activities.
• Develop predictive models to improve screening methods
• Apply expertise and knowledge of cardiac anatomy and physiology to HVT projects and activities.
• Analyze data and document research efforts in scientific reports.
• Collaborate and network across functions and Medtronic businesses, educate them on disease states, cardiac anatomy and physiology, Heart Valve Technology (HVT) products, and device/anatomy interactions.
• Research topics in structural heart disease including valve repair, valve replacement and transcatheter valves.
• Collaborate with external researchers and physicians on (HVT) projects.
• Submit invention disclosures and assist with patent filings.
• Write journal articles suitable for peer reviewed publications.
• Continuous research into realistic device-anatomy interactions and virtual patient modeling.
• Organize, prepare and present technical information material in a clear, effective and skillful manner to management
• Perform required training and certifications to demonstrate compliance with applicable divisional and corporate policies in accordance with individual training matrix
• Maintain technical knowledge current wi