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

The Senior Radio Regulatory Affairs Specialist is dedicated to the Acute Care and Monitoring (ACM) Operating this role the specialist supports New Product Development (NPD) programs and product lifecycle maintenance activities across the RFenabled device portfolio. The specialist collaborates closely with Regulatory Affairs colleagues crossfunctional partners at all levels external test laboratories and certification bodies and International Regulatory Affairs teams to ensure ongoing compliance with global RF wireless and telecommunication requirements. They have oversight of global RF submissions perform changemanagement assessments and are responsible for ensuring RF compliance throughout device lifecycle. The specialist additionally works with crossfunctional teams to develop and deploy new processes and improve existing procedures to integrate RF compliance requirements into ACMs broader quality and regulatory systems ensuring consistent scalable and proactive compliance across all programs.

The ideal candidate has expertise in global RF certification pathways integration of wireless technologies such as WiFi Bluetooth RFID NFC UWB and experience in development of new processes or procedures within an organization.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute global RF regulatory strategies for new and sustaining products.

• Identify and interpret worldwide RF wireless and telecommunication regulations and communicate input design requirements to New Product Development teams

• Prepare and manage global RF technical documentation and certification submissions (e.g. FCC ISED RED MIC)

• Act as an RA Extended Core Team Member within NPD projects to ensure RF design input requirements are identified including RF technical parameters RF labeling and countryspecific Regulatory requirements

• Proactively identify and raise potential risks provide informed recommendations and effectively guide cross-functional teams toward compliant and efficient solutions

• Communicate with external labs compliance and certification bodies and incountry regulatory representatives

• Maintain RF compliance databases regulatory documentation and OU RF procedures

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence development of new or improved of RFrelated processes procedures and bestpractice frameworks.

What Sets a Strong Candidate Apart

• Expertise in global Telecommunication regulatory frameworks (e.g. FCC RED ISED Japan Radio Law ACMA) and their application to RFenabled devices

• Ability to interpret RF requirements such as output power bandwidth spurious emissions and RF exposure and turn them into clear design and testing requirements

• Experience navigating RF certification pathways and determining efficient test strategies

• Strong understanding of RF module integration requirements (labeling exposure host-device compliance)

• Demonstrated success developing global RF regulatory strategies across the product lifecycle

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate and influence effectively across a matrixed organization

• Background in engineering or regulatory affairs or other technical roles supporting RFenabled products

• Familiarity with RF technologies such as RFID WiFi Bluetooth and NFC including typical compliance requirements.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• Medical device experience
• Design Dossier and/or Technical Documentation experience
• Technical Writing
• May have practical knowledge of project management
• Experience with standards analyses and interpretation
• Experience in systems engineering
• Radio Frequency design engineering.

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.