We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 6 Aug 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

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that's what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.
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.

This role is part of the Systems Engineering Center of Excellence and is responsible for defining and delivering solutions that address the unmet needs of the physicians and patients we serve and are aligned with our business’ product roadmaps and technology initiatives.

Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. Join us to make a lasting impact.

Medtronic is looking for a Senior Principal Systems Engineer. This role will collaborate across the Surgical OU Research and Development organization to bring innovation to patients. The successful candidate will be accountable for the definition, integration, and validation of system solutions to meet the ever-evolving needs of our patients, physician partners, and our business. She or he will be accountable for systems design control deliverables and exert significant influence over the design solution with a special focus on risk management and system safety. She or he will lead a cross functional team to perform needs analysis, functional analyses, requirements development, and system and subsystem architecture documentation. This role will have a heightened focus on patient and user safety, risk management, and implementation of safety strategies across systems of systems. She or he will also coordinate and lead trade-off studies, prototype evaluations, and clinical acceptability studies. 

You will:

• Report to a Systems Engineer Manager within the Systems Center of Excellence of the Surgical Operating Unit
• Actively participate in regular R&D project team meetings for the development of new complex surgical systems
• Lead a group of systems engineers in the development and timely delivery of systems design control deliverables
• Develop and review solution architectures and safety strategies for systems of systems
• Apply Systems Engineering principles and best practices to new product development
• Actively contribute to risk management including hazard analysis, usability risk analysis, and risk mitigation
• Communicate progress and roadblocks to project management organization and technical leadership
• Direct the day-to-day activities of, and mentorship to junior systems engineers
• Provide post commercialization product support including root cause investigation and resolution activities

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:

• Mastery of Systems Engineering principles and practices
• Track record of working independently and setting priorities to implement strategic goals
• Experience developing risk management files and applying risk management best practices and principals to medical device development
• Demonstrated expertise in new product development of complex, software controlled electromechanical systems; ideally systems of systems
• Robust ability to effectively communicate complicated information with internal, external, and non-technical audiences
• Excellent understanding of design controls and good documentation practices
• Advanced knowledge of standards including IEC 60601, ISO 14971, ISO 13485 and 62366
• Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering required
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
• Fluency in English and authorization to work in the US is required

Nice to have:

• Advanced degree in Biomedical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering
• Experience with ANSI/AAMI/UL 2800-1:2022
• Experience with medical robotics and combination capital-disposable equipment
• History of negotiating with internal and external gr