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A Day in the Life
Careers that Change Lives. Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that's what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us. Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is a powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.
The role is part of the Systems Engineering Center of Excellence and is responsible for defining and delivering system solutions that address the unmet needs of the physicians and patients we serve and are aligned with our business’ product roadmaps and technology initiatives.
A Day in the Life: Medtronic is looking for a Senior Principal Systems Engineer. This role will collaborate across the Surgical OU Research and Development organization to bring innovation to patients. The successful candidate will be accountable for the definition, integration, and validation of system solutions to meet the ever-evolving needs of our patients, physician partners, and our business. She or he will be accountable for systems design control deliverables and exert significant influence over the design solution.
You will:
- Actively participate in regular R&D project team meetings for the development of new complex surgical systems.
- Lead a group of systems engineers in the development and timely delivery of systems design control deliverables.
- Contribute to planning and execution of pre-clinical laboratory studies to evaluate the acceptability of product prototypes.
- Apply Systems Engineering principles and best practices to new product development.
- Actively contribute to risk management including hazard analysis, usability risk analysis, and risk mitigation.
- Communicate progress and roadblocks to project management organization and technical leadership.
- Direct the day-to-day activities of, and mentorship to junior systems engineers.
- Provide post commercialization product support including root cause investigation and resolution activities.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems.
- Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
- Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of user, customer, and stakeholder needs into engineering requirements, and the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery level knowledge of specialty area and working knowledge of several other areas, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or equivalent) and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
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.
Benefits & Compensation: Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values.
About Medtronic
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