We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 Jun 2026

 

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 Systems Engineer

Lafayette, Colorado

 

Careers That Change Lives

 

As a Senior Systems Engineer within the CST Platforms and Solutions organization you will utilize your extensive technical expertise in solving complex problems and in designing system solutions using computer-assisted and robotic-assisted surgery technology to improve patient outcomes and surgical efficiency.

 

CST

The Cranial & Spinal Technologies business develops life-restoring therapies and healthcare solutions that span the care continuum; integrating technologies and applying clinical and economic evidence to increase patient access, improve efficiency of procedures and deliver successful patient outcomes.

 

 

A Day in the Life

• You will  need to drive technical decision-making within the team to be consistent with big picture design goals and system functionality

• You will work and lead within a cross-functional team to design, develop, test, and document innovative system solutions utilizing software and hardware components.

• You will lead the definition and development of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture.

• You will lead the engineering analysis to optimize and select system-level concepts to ensure the final solution fulfills needs, requirements, use cases, environments, and the overall system vision.

• You will lead the planning and execution of user evaluations in lab-based surgical environments or other formative evaluation events to gain insightful feedback on system concepts.

• You will lead the team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes.

• You will troubleshoot system component integration and support surgical procedure introduction of the design.

• You will provide technical leadership along with computer-assisted, robotic-assisted, and clinical procedure subject matter expertise to internal and cross-business development teams.

 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

A Bachelors’ degree in an Engineering or Science Discipline and 4+ years of relevant experience or an advanced degree and 2+ years of relevant experience.

 

 

Nice to Have

• Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques.

• Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, system design, and safety risk management.

• Experience planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams.

• Experience with software design, algorithm design, GUI design, and iterative software development practices.

• Familiarity and experience working with scripting languages, Polarion, Miro, or Figma.

• Experience with mechanical and/or electrical design, mechanical/electrical drawings, tolerance analysis, and computer-aided design (CAD).

• Familiarity with modern AI-enabled tools for drafting, analysis, knowledge synthesis, and software or system development support.

• Ability to apply AI tools effectively while exercising sound engineering judgment, technical accuracy, and appropriate review of outputs.

• Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions.

• Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.

• Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art

• Project management skills including leading a project team as well as planning and estimation of tasks, milestones, resources, and budget.

• You will provide technical leadership along with computer-assisted, robotic-assisted, and clinical procedure subject matter expertise to internal and cross-business development teams.

• Ability to drive change.

 

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