Sr R/D Engineer

Careers that Change Lives

In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers within the

Medtronic's Surgical Operations Unit. This 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 world's leading Medical Device company, striving "to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life."

A Day in the Life

• Stays current with and understands relevant product intended use, clinical procedures, and related regulations and standards.

• Works with a multidisciplinary team to develop innovative healthcare solutions from concept through commercialization.

• Participates in development of user needs, translation of system and subsystem requirements, ensuring requirements flow.

• Creates product designs which fully address targeted user needs/requirements, and all stakeholders.

• Participates in FMEAs, Usability, DFM & DFA Analyses, and follows up on generated recommendations.

• Creates BOM's, detailed component and assembly drawings utilizing GD&T

• Prepares and reviews information for invention disclosures and patents.

• Assess, troubleshoot and compare multiple designs, utilizing appropriate criteria-based methods.

• Develop test plans and execute benchtop, ex-vivo, and in-vivo testing to verify designs.

• Analyzes test results using appropriate analytical and statistical methods. Document in an Engineering Test Report

• Participates and supports pre-clinical labs, observe cases in hospitals and interact with customers.

• Supports Design Verification and Validation activities for New Product Development.

• Provides technical support for new product launches and market released product such as marketing claims, sales collateral, field return analysis.

• Adheres to Medtronic's good engineering practices (DRM).

• Trains and mentors less experienced R&D Engineers and cross-functional peers on product design and development.

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

• Designs, develops, analyzes, troubleshoots and provides technical skills during research and/or product development.

• Designs studies to investigate specific life science questions within field of expertise.

• May be involved in product research and development and/or clinical trials.

• Translates research discoveries into usable and marketable products.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required

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

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, or related engineering field with 4+ years of experience or a Master's degree with a minimum of 2+ years of experience.

• Demonstrated product design and development execution with a multi-disciplinary project team from user need identification/concept ideation through commercialization.

• Experienced with working solely, in a group, and across multiple functions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to deliver professional communications.

• Experience in PLM, 3D CAD, Tolerance stacks, FEA's.

• Familiarity with Plastic & Metal manufacturing methods.

• Proficient in writing test protocols, and engineering test reports.

• Experienced with building prototypes, debugging designs, and performing root cause analysis.

• Demonstrated working knowledge of statistics with application to sample size determination, design of experiments and null hypothesis testing.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

• Experienced with FDA and ISO medical standards.

• Experience working with DC motors, PCBA's and switches.

• Software Proficiency:

• Creo (3D Part & Assy, Drawing, Surfacing)

• Minitab (Statistics)

• Windchill (PLM)

• Mathcad

• Creo Simulation Live, Ansys (FEA)

• Cetol (Tolerance analysis)

• Advanced working knowledge of ASME GD&T standards with application to product design

• Design for Six Sigma or equivalent certification.

• Experience design & developing disposable and reusable medical devices.

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 life. We 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. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. 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)