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 LifeAt Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Research & Development (R&D) organization is looking for a motivated engineer with experience in systems engineering principles and practices to work in a systems engineering role for product development.
This role will focus on system concept and architecture, requirements and design, integration, verification, and validation for products within the CRM ecosystem. You will be responsible for partnering with systems engineer peers, marketing, product design teams, quality and program management to drive meaningful design inputs, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification and validation strategy.
Along the path to launch, you will become a technical contributor towards the success of the product and help establish best-practices and innovative approaches towards proving that our products meet the expectations of the Medtronic Mission. The position offers an excellent opportunity for an engineer interested in designing and executing systems engineering activities to produce reliable and successful products. Candidates should have demonstrated ability to execute independently after receiving high level scope and constraints.
Primary Responsibilities
Project Leadership:
Provide overall technical leadership for the solution.
Lead the transformation of desired outcomes (customer/business needs) into quality solutions for customers.
Drive and monitor the technical content, integrity, and integration of the system.
Drive collaboration with cross-functional partners to achieve technical alignment .
Identify top project technical risks and drive activities to mitigate risk.
Evolve the solution to address learnings from the risk burndown and system integration activities.
Mature solution concepts with cross-functional partners to address trade-offs and allocation to subsystems .
Communicate solution concepts to the core team, business, and cross-functional teams .
Drive organizational alignment of system solutions through influence .
Lead the identification of the Systems Engineering activities, durations, dependencies, and work breakdown structure and delegate appropriate tasks to systems engineers on the project team .
Develop the system engineers on the project team through coaching/mentoring .
Lead the Systems Team supporting the project, responsible for providing technical review and decisions related to the technical content and escalating challenges with recommendations.
Accountable for technical correctness of final delivered solution .
Development Activities:
Lead user engagement sessions to collect user inputs
Define user workflows and drive procedure development solutions
Drive implementation of the technical aspects of selected solution using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices: define design inputs, define system design, allocate functionality/performance to subsystems, and review subsystem designs .
Define and execute plans to drive maturity of technology and algorithmic features, to reduce risk as necessary
Develop and Execute System Risk Burn Down Activities to retire risk and demonstrate system capability .
Lead teams to develop and execute a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy.
Establish evaluation & launch strategy (e.g. alpha/beta testing, Key Performance Indicators)
Systems Engineering Functional Excellence:
Define and execute best practices of Systems Engineering processes, advocate for high quality engineering
Mentor systems engineers on Systems Engineering principles and practices including MBSE, requirement flow down, interface definition, trade-offs and transfer functions, and continuous integration and development.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for Digital Engineering solutions that drive quality and speed
Drive cross-program alignment in development and use of MBSE capabilities
Drive strategic initiatives aimed at making our systems engineering processes and tools more efficient
Travel Requirements: Travel approximately once per year.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
OR PhD with 6 years relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
Demonstrated expertise in modeling across multiple domains (e.g., physical, logical, functional/behavioral, data)
Experience with systems engineering principles
Demonstrated experience with modern software development practices and tools including continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and distributed version control (e.g., Azure Pipelines/Jenkins, Git)
Experience communicating information at various levels
Demonstrated domain knowledge and understands applications to assigned projects
Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement by studying and applying technical advances in area of expertise
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others
Strong organization, prioritization, and communication skills
Experience leading a team and communicating information at various levels
Experience working in the Medical Device or other regulated industry
Experience with Digital Engineering
Experience in defining modeling patterns and/or UML Profiles
Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect
Experience with integrating MBSE models with simulation tools (MathWorks, Ansys, Esteco)
Experience with integrating MBSE models with system-level test automation
Familiarity with Design for Six Sigma or related product development processes
A person that is versatile, technically savvy, curious, a broad systems thinker, and willing to work in a space with a lot of ambiguity.
Good judgment in assessing risks and opportunities of these solutions.
Customer focused and service oriented
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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.
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 & CompensationMedtronic 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.
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:
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About MedtronicWe 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.
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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.
