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 LifeThe Systems Engineer will collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams and focuses on supporting the execution of test cases and test strategies, ensuring the high performance and reliability of products in Surgical Robotics.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team developing test methods for a complex, electro-mechanical system
- Test Method Development, Root Cause Analysis, Capability studies, Fixture Qualification, Risk Management & Non-Product software validation
- Validate HW/SW Fixtures and Test Methods
- Write validation protocols and reports based on requirement inputs
- Filing of documentation and drawings for approval
- Responsible for the end-to-end process involved in demonstrating the System meets our product requirements.
- Participate in the documentation, communication, and review of undesirable test outcomes, and/or design enhancements, and determine impact of changes to test plans
- Understanding of IEC62304 Standard is plus.
Principal Working Relationships
- Reports to the Sr. Engineering Manager/Engineering Manager
- Accountable to Project Manager(s) for project-related responsibilities
- Frequent interaction with team members from other disciplines, particularly hardware engineers, to develop project requirements and other project artifacts such as project schedules. Possible interaction with clinicians, third-party vendors, manufacturers, subcontractors and other users.
Required Knowledge and Experience
Experience
- 4 to less than 8 years of experience with validation of test methods, hard and software, test fixtures.
Knowledge, Skill, And Ability
- Experience with validation of test methods, hard and software, test fixtures.
- Knowledge of principles and applications of biomechanics, physics, mechatronics, and electrical, mechanical and software development
- Experience writing technical reports for the medical device industry
- Solid understanding of Design Controls, Medical Device Design Verification, and GDP (Good Documentation Practices)
- Experience in Minitab, MATLAB or LabVIEW and Python
- Communicates effectively with cross-functional and multi-site teams.
Education
- Required: - B.E or B. Tech in Mechatronics, Mechanical or Electrical.
- Preferred: - M.E or M. Tech in Mechatronics, Mechanical and Electrical.
Short-Term Success Metrics (6-12 Months)
- Demonstrate strong System Verification & Validation skills
- Demonstrate strong knowledge on tools and technologies
- Establish trusting relationship with the team and other stakeholders
- Demonstrate problem solving capabilities.
- Deliver on project commitments.
Long-Term Success Metrics (1+ Year)
- Learn and demonstrate Product and Domain understanding
- Demonstrate solid understanding of Product Development Lifecycle
- Consistently deliver on Project commitments.
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.
