We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 24 Mar 2025

 

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) offers cardiac mapping, navigation, and ablation solutions to treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms. Our vision is to help patients worldwide by advancing innovation for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, enabling clinicians to perform procedures with superior outcomes.

As a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and expert in designing, developing, and integrating complex electrical systems for Medtronics innovative Cardiac Ablation Solutions products. This role provides a unique opportunity to lead challenging projects, mentor team members, and contribute directly to life-changing technologies.

You will work cross-functionally with teams in mechanical engineering, software development, quality assurance, and manufacturing to drive projects from concept through production. Your work will help Medtronic achieve its mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions of patients worldwide.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to the design, development, and testing of electrical systems and circuits for medical devices, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory standards (e.g., IEC 60601).
• Lead and contribute to technical project planning, establish timelines, define deliverables, and proactively identify and mitigate potential risks.
• Develop detailed specifications, schematics, and PCB layouts, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to meet design and performance requirements.
• Perform system-level integration of hardware, firmware, and software components.
• Conduct risk assessments and root cause investigations for electrical issues, implementing robust corrective and preventive actions.
• Manage product changes and related change control activities, ensuring design documentation (e.g., BOMs, specifications, drawings) is updated and maintained accurately.
• Partner with reliability and manufacturing teams to optimize designs for scalability, cost efficiency, and high performance.
• Support verification and validation activities to ensure the safety, compliance, and efficacy of the product.
• Design, develop, and qualify functional and safety test systems at both the product and PCB levels.
• Investigate and analyze field-returned products, conducting engineering analyses and testing to determine root causes of failures.
• Support and potentially own CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Actions) processes and manage issue escalations to resolution.
• Provide troubleshooting and problem-solving support to manufacturing teams and key suppliers, aiming to increase yields, maintain process capabilities, and improve cost-efficiency.
• Support internal and external regulatory compliance audits, ensuring adherence to quality and safety standards.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and high-performing engineering environment.
• Stay current with advancements in electrical engineering, emerging technologies, and industry best practices.

Must Have - Minimum Requirements:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required
• Minimum of 10 years of electrical design experience 
• Or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of electrical design experience 

Preferred Knowledge and Experience: 

• Extensive experience in medical device or highly regulated industries.
• Expertise in designing, testing, and implementing high-voltage systems (~5 kV).
• Fundamental knowledge of RF systems.
• Deep understanding of EMC design and test principles per IEC 60601.
• Experience in advanced analog, digital or mixed-signal circuit design and test.
• Strong experience with system-level integration of hardware and firmware.
• Proficiency with analysis, simulation, and CAD tools for PCB design (e.g., Minitab, MATLAB, SPICE, Altium, Cadence).
• Demonstrated skills in writing engineering documents (specifications, test plans, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with prototyping, testing, and debugging PCB assemblies.
• Experience in developing hardware test systems for design verification or production testing.
• Track record of leading innovative solutions and implementing process improvements.
• Knowledge of Design for Manufacturing and Test (DFM & DFT) principles.
• Experience with Six Sigma, Lean, or other problem-solving methodologies.
• Strong experience in leadership and cross-functional team management.
• Demonstrated success in relevant patent filings or professional publications.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and driving technical roadmaps.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Team-oriented mindset with a collaborative work ethic.

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.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$153,600.00 - $230,400.00

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.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.