We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 12 Dec 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

Medtronic leads the health care industry to provide solutions that benefit the daily lives of people across the globe.

Our organization contributes directly to this mission through product risk management and reliability engineering for implantable cardiac rhythm products. Striving for unsurpassed quality and reliability in our products is part of our Medtronic mission, and this team is focused on making that a
reality in our product development efforts. Become part of our team and you will be challenged to play a leadership role in building a high performing team, designing and launch lifesaving technologies, and be able to make a real difference.

As a Sr. Design Engineering Manager, you will lead the Premarket Electrical and Firmware Reliability team focused on Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management Portfolio, you will be asked to manage and guide the Risk and Reliability engineers in the pre-market design space. You will be responsible to drive
development of safe, reliable, and compliant products/systems while working very closely with the cross functional teams and building a highly technical and competitive design quality engineers.

The best candidates will be critical thinkers, problem solvers, strong executers, self-driven with strong leadership skills & hands-on management approach. Strong relationship skills are a must, as is excellent verbal and written communication.

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 onsite 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.

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

• Plans, directs, and implements all quality aspects of the company's design and development of new implantable medical device products and systems, with detailed focus on reliability, risk management and patient safety.

• Provide oversight and training in the application of work processes to ensure successful adoption by development teams and positive, measurable results obtained from development programs.

• Work closely with cross functional teams and quality peers to ensure project planning is complete end-to-end, for both pre-market and post-market activities.

• Manages activities to assure programs are appropriately resourced and ensure continuous improvement in technical capability, process, and compliance.

• Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes, and procedures that ensure compliance with policies and that the performance and quality of services conform to established internal and external standards and guidelines.

• Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and internal regulations to assure compliance.

• Works directly with operating entities to provide process analyses oversight on a continuing basis to enforce requirements and meet regulations.

• Ensures the quality assurance programs and policies are maintained and modified regularly.

• Communicate program status using clear metrics and specific actions plans, applying organizational acumen appropriate for a senior level audience.

• Facilitates uniform standards worldwide and enables best practice sharing, thereby fostering the achievement of company's mission globally.

• Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.

• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements- To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile. 

• Bachelor’s degree required in Engineering, Science or technical field with 7+ years of experience in the medical device engineering space and 5 years of technical leadership or managerial experience OR Advanced Degree in Engineering, Science or technical field with 5+ years of experience in the medical device engineering space and 5 years of technical leadership or managerial ex