Principal Systems Engineer

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Work with and provide technical leadership for other development engineers, lab technicians, and test engineers.
• Ensure adherence to product specifications, industry standards, and quality and regulatory procedures and requirements.
• Create innovative technical solutions which lead to the development and introduction of new technologies, products, and processes that support ongoing business objectives
• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• 8+ years of systems engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience with developing, analyzing, diagnosing complex systems and optimizing performance or correcting issues
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of multi-discipline Engineers from Concept through Launch in a regulated industry.
• Strong foundational background to analyze, develop and/or refine algorithms to achieve desired performance
• Ability to lead a product development effort with the capacity as both a system architect as well as a subsystem technical lead.
• Strong analytical skill and critical thinking.
• Broad experience working with pneumatic or hydraulic components, digital and analog electronic design, software architecture, and system control theories.
• Experience with writing high quality requirements, constructing Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), developing transfer functions and modeling, error propagation, risk analysis, data analysis, reliability modeling and testing; and project management.
• Medical device experience, general product development process       
• Exhibit good organization skills, ability to distill complex design and projects to manageable elements, possess leadership skill to guide, motivate, challenge and mentor other engineers.  Knowledgeable of basic statistics, hypothesis testing, gauge R&R, Design of Experiment, t-Test, etc.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex systems and generating technical documentation such as design drawings, DFMEA, verification test procedures and test reports per FDA Quality System Requirements.

About Medtronic

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)