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A Day in the Life

Careers that Change Lives

In this role you will join a world class team of mechanical electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: Surgical Operating Unit is one new powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.

Make your impact by exploring a career with the worlds leading Medical Device company striving to alleviate pain restore health and extend life.

A Day in The Life

You would be joining our Product Development Organization as a Development Engineer II responsible for the Verification Strategy Requirement Decomposition and Specification Development for our robotic projects in development. To us Verification is not just the last step on the path to commercialization; this role becomes an integral core team member in the Concept phase of the project. You will be responsible for partnering with Systems Engineering Marketing the design teams Quality and Project Management to drive meaningful product requirements a robust design and ultimately an efficient and effective verification 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 responsibilities of this role will include the following:

Represent the development engineering function on product development extended core teams

Partner with System Engineering to develop review and decompose product requirements

Develop and drive a robust and efficient design verification strategy for product requirements

Champion studies and/or activities that drive robust design such as design of experiments transfer function development and simulations

Mentor junior verification engineers working on your projects and provide feedback on engineering reports verification protocols and verification reports

Liaison with Reliability Compliance (60601) Hardware (Electrical and Mechanical) and Software teams for your projects

Lead and/or support cross-functional failure investigations

Author or review/approve design verification protocols and reports

Support the development of regulatory submissions for your projects

Support QMS and/or DHF audits as the development engineer SME on those projects

Support changes made to your projects post-launch

You will:

Working on the Medtronic Campus in North Haven CT you are responsible for driving product development activities in support of surgical robotics platform including:

Review and provide input to the development of product requirements

Review provide input to and approve test methods

Design studies and experiments to gain confidence in meeting product requirements

Analyze test data

Author Engineering Analyses and Reports

Plan verification activities

Author Design Verification Protocols and Reports

Troubleshoot failures and make recommendations on design test or requirement improvements

Mentor junior engineers on all of the above

Champion continuous improvement projects such as implementing new SOPs or WIs related to development engineering

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

A Bachelors Degree and 2 years of relevant experience or an advanced degree in robotics engineering or related field and 0 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

A minimum of 1 year of experience with direct medical device development

Experience with applying or developing a product according to System Engineering principles

A strong understanding of Regulatory requirements for Design Controls and Design Verification

Industry-experience with statistical analysis of data

Experience with robotics or electro-mechanical systems

Proven track record of contributing to medical devices of high complexity

Strong communication and inter-personal skills

About Medtronic

Together we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic we push the limits of what technology therapies andservices can do to help alleviate pain restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each otherto 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 withthe right people on our team. Lets work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patientslives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

EEO

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of agecolor national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sexsexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regardto public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. Inaddition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorizationof all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program please click here: 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.