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

Careers That Change Lives

This position will work in a team environment representing Materials Science and Engineering with a focus on metallic semiconducting and ceramic materials. Duties include materials selection processing problem-solving biostability and materials regulations. This position will focus on supporting released product reliability and improvement teams in the identification and mitigation of product-related risks knowledge gaps and the communication of such issues to project and functional leadership teams.

The individual will serve as a materials expert with an emphasis on metallic semiconducting and ceramic materials and interfaces by participating in technical activities for materials selection processing characterization analysis material stability biostability as well as understanding of process-property-performance relationships for medical devices.

This position will also support scoping/planning of product strategy and identification of technologies and initiatives needed to develop innovative reliable and cost-effective therapies. The candidate will develop and execute strategies to address those needs.

You can grow your career with us; we hope youll consider joining our team!

A Day in A Life

As a leader in your professional discipline you will serve as a materials expert by leading and participating in technical activities supporting sustaining engineering.

• Develop and deploy curiosity and critical thinking to a range of projects in the hard materials space.
• Brings focus and technical depth to subsystems and components within a broader project scope to address challenging and complex problems and enable project success.
• Conducts laboratory work and data analysis to drive data-driven technical decisions.
• Acts as a technical contributor within functional and project teams driving a focus on quality and technical rigor while mentoring less experienced personnel.
• Possesses the necessary drive and determination to promote the highest level of customer satisfaction quality reliability performance cost and development predictability.
• Contributes to the design of products or processes based on business strategy.
• Contributes to and develops strategies and prepare evaluation plans in consideration of gaps in materials design and process to achieve optimal solutions that satisfy timeline cost and technical requirements as they relate to patient safety and product reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree and at least 4 years of industry experience or an MS degree with 2 years of industry experience or a PhD and 0 years of industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a regulated environment on medical devices
• Possesses proven expertise in the following business critical skill sets with focus on metallurgical science:
  • Metals Physics Chemistry Processing and Characterization
  • Semiconductor processing packaging and manufacturing
  • Electrochemistry corrosion and stability.
• Expertise in materials with the ability to identify and develop testing methods correlate material properties with product performance and predict various failure modes.
• Experience working with multiple classes of engineering materials: metals polycrystalline and single crystal ceramics and glasses as well as their interface to the product as a whole.
• Experience performing failure analysis
• Knowledge of external standards e.g. ASTM and ISO and their use limitations and applications.
• Demonstrated ability to apply skills and knowledge of technical/operational theories and principles to resolve real-world biomaterials challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver quality technical work within project schedules and timelines.
• Knowledge of Design Reliability & Manufacturability (DRM) and Six Sigma improvement methodology. Knowledge of statistical methods and Design of Experiments (DoE).
• Knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel Word Outlook).

About Medtronic

Together we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic we push the limits of what technology therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain restore health and extend challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Lets work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients lives. Help us shape the future.

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 Day in the Life 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.

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.

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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.