Sr Prin Scientist
Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare.
Join us for a career in Innovation and Research that changes lives.
Acute Care and Monitoring empowers clinicians and patients with actionable insights to personalize care – anytime, anywhere. We help reduce the risk of dangerous and costly patient complications in the hospital, but we won’t stop there. We will use real-time data and artificial intelligence to support our patients from within the hospital to home.
Our solutions will enable clinicians to predict and prevent complications reducing costs and improving outcomes.
Careers that Change Lives
Specifically, the Senior Principal Scientist should have knowledge and experience in methodology and process of scientific exploration as well as technology development for medical devices. Understanding and learning from clinicians what clinical problems we need to solve. In addition to expertise in technical field, a strong background in the area of physiology, patient monitoring, and/or hemodynamic monitoring is preferred. Particularly, experience in early technology development in medical device is highly desired.
Attitude, be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and to be confident about being able to apply business acumen to help make pragmatic trade-off decisions between time-to-market, product costs, product reliability, product features, and budget.
· Responsible for discovering and understanding the clinical problem
· Responsible for the initiation, design, development, execution, and implementation of scientific research projects.
· Investigates the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to potential inventions and products.
· Plans and executes laboratory research.
· Maintains substantial knowledge of state-of-the art principles and theories and may contribute to scientific literature and conferences.
· May participate in development of patent applications.
· May coordinate interdepartmental activities and research efforts
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors degree required
- Requires a University Degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
SPECIALIZED SKILLS OR EXPERIENCE:
- Experience in taking medical devices to market (from opportunity definition to commercialization) while building key partnerships and working with clinicians, vendors, key external partners.
- Demonstrated aptitude to understand, condense and distill key issues of complex clinical problems while at the front-line (ORs, clinics, field) and through customer discovery processes.
- Experience in setting up and running animal studies, clinical research studies, and clinical trials across multiple locations (within the US and internationally)
- Track record of successful fund-raising for different med-tech projects
- At least 3 years of experience in determining impactful clinical needs that meet the strategic and organizational goals of the unit.
- 3 – 5 years of experience working in a matrix management structure
- Flexibility in working hours to accommodate collaboration across geographies.
NICE TO HAVE
- Qualifications:
- The degree should be in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related areas.
- The degree should showcase practical work in front-end engineering through solving significant clinical gaps in current and novel markets.
- Management
- Experience managing junior and senior engineers including vendors, and manufacturers – creating a mission driven culture across groups.
- Experience in financial modeling, budget management and forecasting
- Experience in assembling and managing a team of experts with varied domain expertise.
- Experience mentoring reports to nurture their interest, understand their strengths, ,areas of improvement and goals
- Clinical expertise
- Strong background in clinical study development and execution
- Experience in rigorous iterative product development tied with clinical experimentation, validation, and feedback.
- Strong interest in human anatomy and physiology
- Understanding of the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems
- Ability to grasp medical concepts with ease and depth.
- Business acumen
- Familiarity with business model and plan development and iteration
- Successfully facilitated funding from donor organizations or within the organization for personal or corporate projects
- Track record of conducting market analysis and customer discovery leading to new project areas
- Experience in value-based healthcare models
- Expertise in patent landscape analysis and the patent application process.
- Familiarity with FDA regulations and ISO standards in medical device development and IEC standards for software development
- Technological expertise
- Strong background in human-centered design and user-centered design
- Ability to distill core engineering principles for application in early concepts
- Prowess with rapid prototyping and design of experiments for a rigorous data-driven approach to product development
- Experience with model development and simulation studies
- Experience in lean product development and agile development methods
- Firm understanding of mathematics and linear algebra used in computational modeling.
- Experience with Machine Learning, and Deep Learning networks
- Experience with digital signal processing
- Experience with Python, C++, and Matlab coding
- Experience in medical device productization – quality system management, regulatory submissions, manufacturing, and iterative product development
- Application of techniques such as Reinforcement Learning, Transferred Learning, Computer Vision, Image Segmentation, and PCA
- Organizational and soft skills
- Proven track record in developing relationships and collaborating with an international set of varied partners.
- Communication skills that bridge varying roles within the company, hierarchy within the organization, and external partners
Entrepreneurial mindset – the ability to evaluate, initiate, and execute new directions for the business unit and company, leading projects and assembling teams to execute on reaching outcomes.
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Learn more about our benefits here.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) on page 6 here.
The provided base salary range is used nationally (except in certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.
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)
