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Sr. R&D Electrical Engineer

Medtronic
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Nov 2025
💰 $159,600/yr

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 22 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

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”

Medtronic is looking for a Sr. Electrical Engineer to join our Released Products team within the Surgical Operating Unite. Responsible for both leading and contributing to investigations and identifying root cause of issues associated with the Medtronic Surgical family of products.

The successful candidate will work with a cross functional team to support activities associated with a living platform set of products. This includes coordinating between cross functional teams - manufacturing, and hardware and software engineering functions to identify impacts and lead change and improvement workstreams. Daily activities also include performing impact assessments, evaluating and updating requirements, and documentation.

In this role, you will:

  • Research, develop, design, and test electrical components, equipment, systems, and networks.
  • Design electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects from design to implementation while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education (typically University).

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

  • Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions. Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.
  • Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
  • Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties . Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is in depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.
  • Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision making.
  • Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product .

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree with 4 years of engineering related experience, or Master's degree with 2 years of engineering related experience.

Nice to Have

  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Prior experience in product sustaining activities supporting complex launched product updates and enhancements.
  • Expert understanding of design controls and good documentation practices.
  • Demonstrated cross functional leadership experience.
  • Experience in requirements management, risk management, and change management.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

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 essential functions of this job. Reasonab

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