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A Day in the Life

The Structural Heart and Aortic integrated operating unit offers 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 are looking for a talented engineer to join our systems engineering team at Medtronic Structural Heart & Aortic.

The Senior Systems Engineer will have responsibility supporting our products throughout the entire development life cycle which means you’ll participate in all aspects of product development from concept exploration, system definition & design, testing, issue investigation & resolution, and continuous improvement. You will play a crucial role in driving projects through the product development process using your solid engineering understanding, energetic team attitude, results driven spirit, and focused attention on exceling when presented with challenges. 

Role and Responsibilities:

• You will support requirements capture, maintenance and management at varying levels of details. You will serve as the team’s information conduit between the stakeholders, development teams and V&V groups. 
• Using your collaboration skills; you will work across engineering teams to define and manage requirements at the system, product, subsystem and interface level 
• We’ll ask you to apply technical engineering to design products and systems. 
• You’ll also perform technical analysis using methods such as functional analysis, timeline analysis and trade studies. 
• You’ll have responsibility to support the development of product concepts, user needs and use cases and product requirements. 
• You’ll ensure requirements of quality and decompositions flow down 
• You will conduct technical design and reviews. 
• You’ll also lead, plan, schedule, conduct & monitor testing activities including verification test design, development, execution and documentation\ 
• We’ll ask you to support testing and problem reporting and determine steps to reproduce, root cause and solutions options 
• We’ll ask you to participate in early concept exploration and feasibility evaluations. 
• Using your communication skills; you will coordinate the technical cross functional groups in reducing technical risk and completing product development milestones. 
• Overall, you will contribute to the completion of project/program deliverables for our product development activities supporting the IIM product portfolio 

Must Have: 

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Scientific discipline 
• Minimum 4 years of professional technical engineering experience 
• Or minimum 2 years of professional technical engineering experience with an advanced degree
• Experience generating technical documentation (examples include specifications, engineering reports, test plans & procedures, validation plans, or validation reports) 
• Experience in product development 

Nice to Have: 

• Ideally we’d love you to have one or more of the following: 
• Advanced degree (MS or Higher) in Engineering or Scientific discipline 
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills 
• Experience with Requirements Management Software like DOORS or Requisite Pro 
• Experience in requirements development, analysis, allocation, review, and tracing 
• Experience in functional analysis, interface definition 
• Experience with RF communications systems 
• Experience with Web-based systems 
• A proven multitasker! You have demonstrated ability of working on multiple projects in a deadline driven and fast paced environment 
• Experience developing a product in a regulated industry such as medical device, defense, or automotive. 
• Excellent written and communication skills 
• Provide leadership and execution as needed for maintenance of requirements management systems, tools, and processes 

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the require