We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 Sep 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

Pre-Market Software Safety Engineer II

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.

Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Integrated Operating Unit offers devices and therapies that treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure.

We are comprised of three businesses:

• Cardiac Pacing Therapies
• Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Services
• And Defibrillation Solutions

We prioritize people in everything we do, remaining at the forefront of innovation to treat more patients. Our commitment to operational excellence ensures we deliver exceptional experiences for those impacted by our therapies.
In this exciting role as a Pre-Market Software Safety Engineer II, you will have responsibility for ensuring our products exceed the safety and reliability requirements and expectations of patients, clinicians, regulators, and the business.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to drive software reliability and safety engineering within dynamic new product development teams for R&D. The candidate will be a pivotal member of cross-functional teams, serving as the go-to expert for reliability, safety, and quality functions.

As a core member of the R&D project teams, the Pre-Market Software Safety Engineer II will drive excellence in quality and reliability programs. This dynamic role involves leading Design for Reliability (DfR) initiatives, offering technical expertise, actively participating in design and risk reviews, and shaping the development of cutting-edge technologies. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, the position is pivotal in ensuring that innovative solutions meet the highest safety and reliability standards, fostering impactful advancements in patient care.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) 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.

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.

A Day in the Life       

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Pre-Market Software Safety Engineer II role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Leverage relevant medical technology experience to ensure the practical applicability and safety of our products in real-world settings.
• Completes risk severity and occurrence determination and analyze risk benefit profiles for cardiac medical products.
• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes. 
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability/safety standards. 
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability/safety engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability/safety objectives. 
• Support technical reliability/safety studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs. 
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability and safety. 
• Proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability and product safety. 

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 engineering, math, science or technical discipline
• Minimum of 4+ years of work experience in engineering and/or quality OR advanced degree in engineering, science or technical field with 2+ years of work experien