We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 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

CSP is a Spine R&D and Marketing Group focusing on Customized Spinal Instruments to specific Spine Surgeon needs, uses, and preferences. CSP is active across all spinal therapies offered by Medtronic Spine.



As a Senior R&D Engineer, Spine CSP, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery in a fast-paced environment.



Key responsibilities include the ownership of designing, documenting, and releasing Taylor-made instruments to Surgeons' specific needs in collaboration with CSP R&D Team and the cross-function team. In collaboration with CSP program manager, 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 CSP general direction and its specific development process. 



The product focus will be on spinal instrumentation treating 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.

Day in the life: 

• Progress multiple simultaneous designs and development requirements of taylor-made surgical instruments from initial concept to market release in accordance with CSP-specific processes and lead times. 

• Own Low to medium-complexity spinal projects that meet the needs and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business under the guidance of the CSP Program manager 

• Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and mitigation of risk of system designs in fast passing environment.  This includes evaluation of system interfaces, use cases and conditions, investigating and resolving system and design issues, taylor-made instruments to address customer feedback and requests. 

• Engages with customers (internal and external) to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs 

• Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests, experiments, and evaluations, including numerical verification in fast passing environment 

• Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results in the frame of CSP-specific processes. 

• Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use and application via when required customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, lite