Principal R&D Engineer - Hybrid

Principal R&D Engineer

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

As a Principal R&D Engineer, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to lead new product development, creating and designing implants, instruments, and systems, conducting product and use testing, and managing system interfaces. You will actively seek Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements, design specifications, and mechanical concepts. You will work under general direction and may serve as a key functional core team member or as an engineer on an extended team. The product focus will be on spinal implants and instrumentation to treat degenerative, deformity, and tumor / trauma conditions.

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful. We're committed. We're driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide. We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level : We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader that's why we make it a point to seek out, attract, and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

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

• Plans and implements all aspects of multiple simultaneous designs and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release following agreed project timelines and NPI Development processes.
• Defines medium to high complexity spinal systems and conceptualizes designs that meet the needs and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business under the guidance of the NPI Engineering Program manager and the Therapy Technical Leader.
• Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and mitigation of risk of system designs. This includes understanding system interfaces, use cases, and conditions, investigating and resolving system and design issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, and leading testing activities.
• Engages with customers (internal and external) to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs
• Translates customer needs into stakeholder and system requirements
• Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests, experiments, and evaluations, including numerical verification
• Defines and performs verification and validation activities, ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use
• Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results
• Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use, and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches, and training
• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions
• Supports documentation throughout all phases of research and development
• Participate with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
• Investigate and evaluate existing technologies
• Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical / scientific community
• Provides training and mentorship to less experienced team members and learns from more experienced team members
• Maintains training and ensures personal understanding of all applicable quality policy / system items. Follow all work / quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work.

Travel Expectation : less than 10% - domestic travel 1 to 2 days a month.

As a Principal R&D Engineer :

Must Have : Minimum Qualifications

Nice to Have :

Skills & Abilities :

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD) : $130,400.00 - $195,600.00 This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification / education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United