Sr. Reliability Engineer - Hardware / Electrical
MedtronicAbout the role
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
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’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite 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 is an exciting opportunity to support the continued scaling and improvement of Affera HW system in the Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) Operating Unit as a Senior Reliability Engineer. The Affera system is a primary portfolio driver for the CAS OU with integrated mapping, navigation, RF, and PF ablation functionality. This Reliability role is on the Affera HW REL team with full lifecycle scope and a focus on released product engineering, next generation ablation generator development, and quality response. The role will report to the Sr. Manager for Affera Capital (HW) Reliability Engineering team.
About the Affera Mapping and Ablation System
The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm.
Primary Responsibilities
Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.
May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.
As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.
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