Principal Systems Engineer

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A Day in the Life

Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) group is looking for a Principal Systems Engineer for product development. The role will focus on procedure development, system development, integration, verification, and validation for CRM products. The role will be responsible for partnering with systems engineer peers, marketing, product design teams, quality and program management to drive meaningful design inputs, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification and validation strategy. Along the path to launch, this role will become a technical contributor towards the success of the product and help establish best-practices and innovative approaches towards proving that our products meet the expectations of the Medtronic Mission.

This position is based at our Mounds View, MN facility and requires a minimum of 4 days per week on-site to support collaboration, innovation, and cross-functional partnership. The role also requires 10% or less travel to support project execution, business needs, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

Project Leadership

• Lead the transformation of desired outcomes (customer/business needs) into quality solutions for customers
• Drive and monitor the technical content, integrity, and integration of the system
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional partners to achieve technical alignment
• Identify top project technical risks and drive activities to mitigate risk
• Evolve the solution to address learnings from the risk burndown and system integration activities
• Mature solution concepts with cross-functional partners to address trade-offs and allocation to subsystems
• Communicate solution concepts to the core team, business, and cross-functional teams
• Drive organizational alignment of system solutions through influence
• Lead the identification of the Systems Engineering activities, durations, dependencies, and work breakdown structure and delegate appropriate tasks to systems engineers on the project team
• Develop the system engineers on the project team through coaching/mentoring
• Lead the Systems Team supporting the project, responsible for providing technical review and decisions related to the technical content and escalating challenges with recommendations
• Account for technical correctness of final delivered solution

Development Activities

• Lead user engagement sessions to collect user inputs
• Define user workflows and drive procedure development solutions
• Drive implementation of the technical aspects of selected solution: define Design Input Requirements, define system design (including use cases, system interfaces, etc), allocate functionality/performance to subsystems, and review subsystem designs
• Define and execute plans to drive maturity of technology and algorithmic features, to reduce risk as necessary (e.g. clinical or pre-clinical download studies)
• Develop and Execute System Risk Burn Down Activities to retire risk and demonstrate system capability
• Lead teams to develop and execute a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy
• Establish evaluation & launch strategy (e.g. alpha/beta testing, Key Performance Indicators)

Evaluation & Launch Activities

• Participate in defining and execution of clinical trial design or Limited Release Evaluation strategy (if required)
• Provide technical guidance on customer training and deliver training on new system features
• Monitor Key Performance Indicators and develop responses should any fall out of range
• Proactively detect and manage any issues with the system that arise during the early launch, including Field Corrective Actions
• Provide technical oversight and on-site support over the initial launch of the product until it is stable in the market and ready to transfer to Released Product Engineering
• Lead identification and documentation of solution’s technical lessons learned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, health science, or related technical field
• 7+ years of relevant experience in industry with bachelor’s degree; or
• 5+ years of relevant experience in industry with advanced degree
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of the clinical application of products within CRM
• Experience with procedure development and/or clinical workflow exposure
• Experience with customer engagements and field support

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate understanding of system architecture for products involving hardware, software, communication and mechanical components

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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 required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

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.

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$134,400.00 - $201,600.00

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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