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

A Day in the Life

As a Distinguished Engineer you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to lead new product development developing and designing implants instruments and systems conducting product and use testing and managing system interfaces. You will actively seek Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements design specifications and mechanical concepts. You will work under general direction and may serve as a key functional core team member or as an engineer on an extended team. The product focus will be on spinal implants and instrumentation to treat degenerative deformity and tumor/trauma conditions.

A career at Medtronic is like no other. Were purposeful. Were committed. Were driven by our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide. We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader thats why we make it a point to seek out attract and develop employees who are patient-centric passionate and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

At 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. Were 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.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Plans and implements all aspects of multiple simultaneous designs and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release following agreed project timelines and NPI Development processes.
• Defines medium to high complexity spinal systems and conceptualizes designs that meet the needs and uses of the customer regulatory agencies and the business under minimal guidance of the Therapy Technical Leader
• Provides technical leadership in the definition evaluation and mitigation of the risk of system designs. This includes understanding system interfaces use cases and conditions investigating and resolving system and design issues making improvements to address customer feedback and requests and leading testing activities.
• Engages with customers (internal and external) to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs
• Translates customer needs into stakeholder and system requirements
• Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests experiments and evaluations including numerical verification
• Defines and performs verification and validation activities ensuring products meet user needs system requirements and intended use
• Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results
• Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems their clinical use and application via customer and field visits pre-clinical in vivo labs literature searches and training
• Documents tradeoffs rationales and potential solutions
• Supports documentation throughout all phases of research and development
• Participate with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
• Investigate and evaluate existing technologies
• Contributes inventions new designs and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community
• Provide training and mentorship to less experienced team members and learn from more experienced team members
• Maintains training and ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are applicable.
• Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work

Travel Expectation: less than 10% - domestic travel 1 to 2 days a month.

As a Distinguished R&D Engineer:

• Demonstrated strong performance in both what and how over time and career aspirations to advance
• Values knowledge transfer and development and actively mentors others
• Deep domain technology expert internally and externally contributes to defining or steering technical direction for local leaders.
• Ability to establish the link between technology and business/patient application
• Demonstrated impact on external groups industry groups governments and societies through an active leadership role.
• Strong internal influence collaboration & results across BUs and or locations

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering or a technical-related degree Mechanical Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 15 years of engineering design and development experience with 13 years of medical device experience - in spine trauma orthopedics or dental

Nice to Have:

• Engineering MS degree preferred
• Clinical knowledge for the use of products
• Knowledge of spinal anatomy relative to surgical procedures
• Experience in the use of systems engineering methodologies including requirements development analysis allocation review tracing and verification/validation
• Ability to effectively communicate and work collaboratively with others as a member of a team
• In-depth knowledge and wide application of technical principles theories and concepts in related fields of expertise to develop innovative approaches to work
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes including machining and 3D printing
• Understanding of spinal medical device industry and competitor products. Working knowledge of other disciplines

Skills & Abilities:

• Proven proficiency with CREO SolidWorks or a similar 3D CAD program
• Mastering of engineering drawing standards including GD&T and tolerance stacks
• Demonstrated track record of successful designs of surgical instruments (Spinal instruments are a plus)
• Knowledge of Agile and Windchill
• Demonstrated ability to take the initiative in keeping current with technology developments in the specialized area
• Experience working in an FDA-regulated and/or medical device environment with ISO and Quality System Regulation requirements
• Design and project execution Agility in a fast-paced environment with a quality and customer service mindset with a sense of urgency and ownership.
• Creativity in design documentation and problem-solving with speed as a mindset
• Capable of defining and following priorities in multiple simultaneous project environments.
• Knowledge of surgical instruments and their use conditions in the OR setup. (Spine is a plus)
• Strong collaborator in a cross-functional and multi-cultural team environment
• Strong team player aiming to win as a team
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience training and mentoring less experienced engineers learning/listening mindset with more experience.
• Excellent written and communication skills

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):$196000.00 - $294000.00

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

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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 insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple 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 matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital 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 95000 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.