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A Day in the Life

Careers that Change Lives

We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems make progress and deliver meaningful innovations.

The Cardiac and Vascular Group brings together our cardiac and vascular businesses into one collaborative operating unit to leverage the full breadth of our talent technologies and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients around the world.

Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

A Day in the Life

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

- Serve as a strategic thought leader in Human Factors Engineering across multiple programs influencing product design at the system level.

- Lead human-centered design efforts for complex product ecosystems integrating software hardware and service experiences.

- Define and implement human factors strategies that align with business priorities and regulatory expectations.

- Champion customer and user needs from early-stage opportunity exploration through post-market surveillance.

- Direct and mentor HF teams and junior engineers across multiple projects or platforms.

- Design and execute formative and summative usability studies to support use-related risk analysis and design validation.

- Provide expert-level guidance on regulatory submissions (e.g. FDA MDR) related to human factors and usability.

- Influence cross-functional stakeholdersincluding Engineering Clinical Regulatory and Marketingto optimize human-machine interfaces and improve user experience.

- Contribute to the advancement of internal HF/UX tools processes and best practices to enhance organizational capability.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume:

- Bachelors Degree with 10 years of experience or

- Masters Degree with 8 years of experience or

Nice to have:

- Deep expertise in human factors engineering usability testing and application of IEC 62366 and related regulatory standards.

- Demonstrated leadership in medical device development including FDA and international submissions.

- Strong track record of guiding product design decisions through rigorous user research and analysis.

- Skilled in influencing design direction and strategy in cross-functional and enterprise-wide settings.

- Experience leading human factors work for Class II or III medical devices.

- Experience scaling user research frameworks or HF tools across an organization.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills tailored to executive technical and regulatory audiences.

- Experience mentoring junior HFE team members and influencing organizational culture.

- Familiarity with systems engineering cognitive task analysis and digital health ecosystems.

- Up to 20% travel required.

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.

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.

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