Senior R&D Engineer – Delivery System Design
Careers That Change Lives
Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business is looking for a motivated engineer to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of medical devices. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to accelerate the design and development of next generation medical devices. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions.
This engineering position requires strong technical and leadership skills to support the design and development of innovative, new products within the Coronary & Structural Heart business. The Senior R&D Engineer will apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts in working on complex technical problems, and will provide technical leadership of projects from concept generation through early phase development.
- Work closely with cross-functional partners such as Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, Regulatory and Quality, to take a product from ideation to market release.
- Research and integrate new technologies and materials through the understanding and utilization of extensive technical knowledge and understanding of complex ideas, concepts, and theories
- Utilize advanced experimental design methodologies, with significant complexity, and execute test protocols and reports to facilitate the design of medical devices
- Analyze data using advanced statistical techniques and communicate results to a cross-functional team
- Collaborate with people inside and outside of the company, as well as identify vendors and external partners needed throughout the development process
- Support our intellectual property portfolio through generation and support of novel ideas and product concepts
- Bachelors degree in Engineering required (Mechanical, Biomedical or Equivalent degree
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of experience
- Understanding and experience in design, development and testing of cardiovascular catheter delivery systems or equivalent (i.e. use of polymers, metals including NiTi, braiding/coiling, extrusion, molding, machined parts, alloy wire & welding)
- Experience with product concept development, customer interaction, systems engineering and validation of customer needs/design requirements
- Demonstrated ability to assess the feasibility of emerging technologies through research, prototyping, and pre-clinical trials
- Working knowledge of systems engineering principles, requirements management and medical device regulation
- Demonstrated strength in written and verbal communication, judgment, decision making, and critical thinking
- Demonstrated strength in building strong relationships at all levels of the organization, cross-functionally, and with key people external to the organization
- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or Design, Reliability & Manufacturability (DRM) certification
- Working knowledge of CAD (Solidworks)
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
