We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Jul 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

Careers that Change Lives

This Sr. Engineering Manager leads a design environment group within CRM’s Engineering Solutions organization. Visibility is high as this group supports the needs of the CRM R&D organization, along with other R&D organizations across the Medtronic enterprise that leverage the environments this group develops and maintains within its scope. These include environments that enable design fidelity, efficiency, and quality outcomes for mechanical design, requirements capture/flow/traceability, and product data management (PDM). Also included is the development and deployment of our high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms which are leveraged for electrical design automation, system emulation, modeling and simulation, and machine learning. The group consists of highly skilled, experienced, and engaged design automation engineers, along various contractors or professional services personnel.


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 onsite 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.

Key Areas of Focus for This Position:

• Sets strategic direction, owns investment outcomes and value propositions, and leads the implementation of engineering design environments that are used in design and development of Medtronic’s industry leading medical device products or software systems.
• Work across the enterprise and matrix within various businesses to maximize the utilization and increase the leverage of our investments in our design environments.
• Work with a large variety of vendors to identify and develop strategic partnerships that provide value for our organization and engineering stakeholders.
• Work with key stakeholders across the enterprise, and our vendors, to lead the development of new design methodologies, data/requirements management capabilities, along with computation and simulation solutions.
• Put the ‘M’ back in Mechanical Design Automation (MDA) by building an organization that can effectively partner and realize aspirations for the future of mechanical engineering.
• Be a key thought leader and influencer in the future of design automation.
• Develop the organization by increasing overall competencies in design methodologies, business acumen, vendor relationships, and responsiveness to stakeholder needs across a variety of design environments.
• Partner with like organizations and stakeholders across the enterprise to drive operational excellence in design automation as a competitive advantage for Medtronic by increasing engineering productivity, predictability, design fidelity, and overall quality of outcomes.
   

A Day in the Life

In general, the following responsibilities apply but is not limited to the following:

• Lead the development, and execution, of design environment strategies that enable future breakthrough system innovation which continues to redefine the industry for patients, providers and payers in clinical performance, quality and patient outcomes
• Working with stakeholders and partners across Medtronic, execute on functional excellence improvements to our design environments and methodologies that advance our enterprise wide aspirations in design, reliability, and manufacturability (DRM), development efficiency, and flawless launch
• Ensure availability of any required design environments, in advance of need, to enable the execution of product development portfolios across the enterprise
• Aligned with strategies developed above, lead the purchase and deployment of various equipment and software assets to meet mechanical design, requirements and risk management, or modeling and simulation demand across the enterprise. 
• Maintain productive working relationships with various vendors; lead negotiations on license and maintenance renewals working closely with our Strategic Sourcing and other R&D and IT partners across Medtronic
• Current scope of responsibilities include the following design environments:  Mechanical Design Automation (MDA), Product Data Management (