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Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

Medtronic
Mounds View, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Nov 2025
💰 $234,000/yr

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Nov 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

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.

Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Research & Development (R&D) organization is looking for a motivated engineer with experience in systems engineering principles and practices to work in a systems engineering role for product development 

  

This role will focus on system concept and architecture, requirements and design, integration, verification, and validation for products within the CRM ecosystem. You will be responsible for partnering with systems engineer peers, marketing, product design teams, quality and program management to drive meaningful design inputs, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification and validation strategy. 
 

Along the path to launch, you will become a technical contributor towards the success of the product and help establish best-practices and innovative approaches towards proving that our products meet the expectations of the Medtronic Mission. The position offers an excellent opportunity for an engineer interested in designing and executing systems engineering activities to produce reliable and successful products. Candidates should have demonstrated ability to execute independently after receiving high level scope and constraints. 

 

 

Primary Responsibilities 

 
Project Leadership:  

  • Provide overall technical leadership for the solution. 

  • Lead the transformation of desired outcomes (customer/business needs) into quality solutions for customers.  

  • Drive and monitor the technical content, integrity, and integration of the system.  

  • Drive collaboration with cross-functional partners to achieve technical alignment . 

  • Identify top project technical risks and drive activities to mitigate risk 

  • Evolve the solution to address learnings from the risk burndown and system integration activities.  

  • Mature solution concepts with cross-functional partners to address trade-offs and allocation to subsystems . 

  • Communicate solution concepts to the core team, business, and cross-functional teams . 

  • Drive organizational alignment of system solutions through influence . 

  • Lead the identification of the Systems Engineering activities, durations, dependencies, and work breakdown structure and delegate appropriate tasks to systems engineers on the project team . 

  • Develop the system engineers on the project team through coaching/mentoring . 

  • Lead the Systems Team supporting the project, responsible for providing technical review and decisions related to the technical content and escalating challenges with recommendations.  

  • Accountable for technical correctness of final delivered <

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