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

Senior R&D Engineer

Careers that Change Lives

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Medtronic's Structural Heart and Aortic operating unit to work with a dedicated team focused on the development and expansion of our new transcatheter heart valve replacement system. In this role, the Senior Engineer will be working on the delivery system team to develop, qualify, and commercialize the device.

The Structural Heart and Aortic integrated operating unit offer minimally invasive approaches to restore proper structure and function of the heart and the aorta. We focus on the transcatheter replacement or repair of the four heart valves—aortic, pulmonic, mitral, tricuspid—and the placement of stent grafts to treat aneurysms and dissections of the body’s largest artery, the aorta.

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 position is in Santa Ana, CA. within the Structural Heart and Aortic (SH&A) operating unit. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

A Day in the Life

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior R&D Engineer.  This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Apply expertise and knowledge of cardiac anatomy and physiology to Heart Valve Technology (HVT) projects and activities
• Apply expertise in specialist 3D software to reconstruct, segment and analyze human and animal anatomical datasets collected with MR, CT, biplane fluoroscopy or ultrasound scans.
• Apply expertise in machine learning frameworks to assess anatomy-device interaction, build and validate predictive models to enhance screening methods, and support procedure development using medical imaging and/or clinical data
• Write and edit measurement scripts in Python and MATLAB
• Contribute to the anatomical database to support aortic and structural heart disease research and development, and perform continuous research into realistic device-anatomy interactions and virtual patient modeling.
• Support product development teams with preclinical activities and research and technology activities.
• Collaborate and network across functions and Medtronic businesses and/or with external researchers and physicians on HVT projects, submit invention disclosures and assist with patent filings, and maintain technical knowledge current with advancing technology related to imaging analysis of cardiovascular valve repair/replacement products and associated accessories
• Organize, prepare and present technical information material in a clear, effective and skillful manner to management
• Proactively manage deliverables and provide regular updates to both project and functional management. Be responsive to changes in work direction and develop creative plans for meeting program milestones.
• Provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

The successful candidate will have:

• Knowledge of cardiac anatomy, physiology and pathology.
• Experience with post-processing of CT data (Mimics or 3Mensio)
• Expertise with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) and programming languages like Python, R, or MATLAB.
• PC experience (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, etc.)

Qualifications

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering