We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 30 Apr 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

Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) offers cardiac mapping, navigation, and ablation solutions to treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms. Our vision is to help patients worldwide by advancing innovation for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, enabling clinicians to perform procedures with superior outcomes.

As a member of the New Product Design and Systems Engineering group, the individual selected for this role will lead new product design activities associated with products such as generators, amplifiers, large consoles, and catheters. They will work at the intersection of product design and process development, optimizing for customer and business needs.

The ideal candidate for this position has had experience in design, process development, verification, and validation activities. Experience in plastics and electromechanical assemblies in the medical device industry is a plus. This individual is experienced in performing design analysis optimization, utilizing finite element analysis paired with simulated design of experiments as well as hands-on prototyping/testing. This position will work across the organization driving and collaborating with functions in Product Design, Systems, Operations, PMO, Quality and Regulatory to assure the successful execution of business goals.

We are a learning culture. An inventive and collaborative group. We are dedicated to making sure that every patient gets the best product — when they need it. We have strong ties to our local communities. Our vibrant employee communities respect and value individual experience and perspective as we aim to improve lives and the access to healthcare.

 

This position will be located in Mounds View, MN. Working onsite 3 days per week.  The list below includes typical expectations:

• Complex product design activities.
• Perform concept development and prototyping and change analysis.
• Design / develop components to be manufactured via plastic injection molding, stamping, machining, extrusion, and related processes.
• Create and interpret analyses to determine suitability of design concepts.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineering staff.
• Incorporate risk-based decision-making into the design process.
• Apply Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies to all aspects of the design/development process.
• Ensure on-time completion of Design Control deliverables.
• Grow and maintain knowledge current with related technologies.
• Work with manufacturing and suppliers to ensure feasibility of high-volume assembly.
• Translate VoX feedback into product requirements.
• Create and release engineering drawings, reports, and presentations. 
• Travel to supplier and manufacturing sites as required.
• Present technical findings or project status to cross functional teams and management through meeting minutes, design reviews, presentations, and other means of communication.
• Research, plan, design, verify, validate electromechanical products and systems.

 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor of Engineering degree and 7+ years of experience in mechanical product development
• Or Master of Engineering degree and 5+ years of experience in mechanical product development

 

Nice to Have

• Experience in the medical device industry.
• Experience with CAD based tools (SolidWorks)
• Experience in complex mechanical system design at architectural level.
• Experience with plastic injection molding in a high-volume environment.
• Extensive experience in 3D modeling, finite element analysis, and statistical design analysis.
• Process and test method development, validation.
• Formal training in Six Sigma methodologies.
• Experience designing/developing catheter products.
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience with consumer electronics, wearables and/or similar miniaturized electromechanical products.