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 LifeAs a Senior R&D Engineer at Medtronic Articulating Technologies, you will get the opportunity to develop advanced medical devices to enable next generation endoscopic therapeutic interventions and minimally invasive surgery. Your job covers the full engineering domain of product and process development from conceptual design up to market introduction. Additionally, you bridge engineering design and intellectual property (IP) strategy, helping ensure our innovations are effectively captured and protected. In a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, you work on design, development and testing of surgical instruments and its related manufacturing processes. You improve product performance and manufacturability by designing, calculating, modelling, prototyping and testing.You are a smart, eager and result driven engineer who thinks in terms of solutions rather than problems. You present your ideas convincingly and to the point. Collaboration is in your nature, and you value different opinions and perspectives. You have strong analytical skills, and you can suggest out-of-the-box solutions. You show a strong sense of ownership. You have strong technical writing expertise to support the development, documentation, and protection of innovative technologies. You combine deep engineering knowledge with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear technical documentation. Are you in for a new challenge?! And would you like to be part of state-of-the art technology innovation? If so, then a job as Senior R&D Engineer at Medtronic Articulating Technologies could be the perfect next step in your career.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Designs, develops, analyses, troubleshoots and provides technical skills during research and/or product development
- Designs studies to investigate specific life science questions within field of expertise
- May be involved in product research and development and/or clinical trials
- Translates research discoveries into usable and marketable products
- Improve product performance and manufacturability by designing, calculating, modelling, prototyping and testing
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Master’s degree in mechanical engineering/biomedical engineering or similar
- A minimum of 5 years of work experience in engineering design, R&D, or product development
- Experience drafting or contributing to patent applications and invention disclosures
- Familiarity with international patent filing processes is preferred
- Mastering the Dutch and English language
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.
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.
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.
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What We Do
Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions.
Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year.
To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
