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

In the Sr. R&D engineer role you will contribute to continuous design improvement and new product developments with the Oximetry R&D team.

Careers That Change Lives

The Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM) OU is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialization to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM OU R&D organization is refining its product delivery, innovation, and commercialization approach to enable product leadership across all segments of our product portfolio. This will require enhancing our innovation processes, refining our design and delivery approaches to deliver an integrated and comprehensive portfolio that enables product development excellence across ACM.

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 role will be based out of Boulder, CO. 

A Day in the Life

We are looking for a Sr R&D Engineer who will take initiative in continued product focused excellence for oximetry products.

• You will provide a deep understanding of oximetry measuring systems from foundational technical knowledge to product specific expertise.
• You will take initiative in design and development, design change and test method development to ensure continued innovation, safety, and efficacy of patient monitoring products.
• You will interpret specifications, international standards, and regulatory requirements for all aspects of products.
• You will communicate effectively with cross-functional partners to manage products over the entirety of the product lifecycle spanning from early need identification to proactive system-level planning for continued state-of-the-art compliance.
• You will document patient monitoring product development activities to support design traceability.
• You will serve as a point person from R&D in field and product launch activities to drive continued customer centric engagement and collection of product needs for future development activities. 
• You will clearly communicate product needs and priorities with cross functional partners to deliver clinically meaningful products to the market.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering with 4+ years of experience or 2+ years of experience with an advanced degree.

Nice to Have

• Tactical system level planning skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with high attention to detail.
• Effective communication and presentation skills at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a team environment both locally and globally.
• Excellent prioritization and organizational skills. 
• Demonstrated experience in taking design requirements from concept through final design.
• General knowledge of related principals including electromechanical, tissue optics, physiological signals, fluid dynamics etc.
• Thorough understanding and wide application of technical principals, theories and concepts in patient monitoring, wearable monitors, etc.
• Experienced in design for six sigma or similar engineering practices.
• Ability to apply engineering analysis techniques and tools (Solidworks, Matlab, Minitab, Excel, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering plus 8 years of experience or 6 years’ experience with an advanced degree

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements 
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the es