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

As a Senior Principal R&D Engineer, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to lead new product development; developing and designing implants, instruments, and systems; conducting product and use testing; and managing system interfaces. You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements, design specifications, and mechanical concepts.  You will work under general direction and may serve as a key functional core team member or as an engineer on an extended team.  The product focus will be on spinal implants and instrumentation to treat degenerative, deformity, and tumor/trauma conditions. 

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide.  We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

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

• Plans and implements all aspects of multiple simultaneous designs and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release in accordance with agreed project timelines and NPI Development processes.
• Defines medium to high complexity spinal systems and conceptualizes designs that meet the needs and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business under the guidance of the NPI Engineering Program manager and the Therapy Technical Leader
• Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and mitigation of the risk of system designs.  This includes understanding system interfaces, use cases, and conditions, investigating and resolving system and design issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, and leading testing activities.
• Engages with customers (internal and external) to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs
• Translates customer needs into stakeholder and system requirements
• Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests, experiments, and evaluations, including numerical verification
• Defines and performs verification and validation activities, ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use
• Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results
• Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches, and training
• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions
• Supports documentation throughout all phases of research and development
• Participate with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
• Investigates and evaluates existing technologies
• Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community
• Provides training and mentorship to less experienced team members and learn from more experienced team members
• Maintains training and ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are applicable.  Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work

Travel Expectation: less than 10% - domestic travel, 1 to 2 days a month.

As a Senior Principal R&D Engineer: 

• Demonstrated strong performance in both what and how over time, and career aspirations to advance 

• Values knowledge transfer, development, and actively mentors others 

• Deep domain technology expert 

• Ability to establish the link between technology and business/patient application    

• Strong internal influence, collaboration & results within the organization and or locations 

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a technical-related degree – Mechanical Engi