Senior R&D Engineer

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Galway
In-Office
Healthtech
The Role

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

At Medtronic we lead the market in Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) solutions, developing innovative technologies for patients across the Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation and Patient Monitoring therapy spaces. Our Galway based product development teams focus primarily on the creation of catheter technologies that deliver these therapies to patients, ensuring the procedure is safe and reliable for patients and physicians. 

As a Senior R&D Engineer within the Released Product Engineering Team, you will be tasked with supporting the cross functional technical team and leading projects in all aspects of commercial device engineering. 

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A Day in The Life Of:

  • Experienced engineer to utilize advanced engineering principles and methodologies to solve complex technical challenges in existing commercial products. 
  • Drive the development and implementation of innovative solutions for released products to enhance performance and customer satisfaction 
  • Conduct thorough root cause analysis on product complaints and defects, ensuring timely identification and resolution of underlying issues. 
  • Effectively represent Medtronic while interacting with physicians to distil their needs into product requirements and concepts.  
  • Participate in technical innovation across the department.  
  • Identify and mitigate technological risks throughout the design process.  
  • Apply understanding of anatomy & physiology with engineering knowledge in materials and processes to produce working designs.  
  • Interface effectively and build relationships with team members, other staff and key technology and component suppliers, both locally and globally.  
  • Contribute to resolution technical obstacles with existing designs and support portfolio sustaining activities.  
  • Contribute to generation of intellectual property.  
  • Delegate/direct work of experienced engineers.  
  • Provide coaching/guidance to less experienced team members.

Key Skills & Experience 

  • Level 8 Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering or related discipline with minimum 4 years relevant direct engineering experience within medical device environment. 
  • Dynamic team player and can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams and across organizational boundaries and take appropriate actions when problems occur.
  • Medical device product development experience desirable 
  • Technical experience in DOE (Design of Experiments), Six Sigma, DFM etc. 
  • Experience in interfacing with physicians and reducing feedback to device concepts. 

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package 

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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. 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.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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  
 

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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.

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