Associate Clinical Specialist (CRM): Winter 2026 & Spring 2027 Undergraduates
Medtronic
Summary
The Associate Clinical Specialist role is designed as a development pathway into a field-based Cardiac Rhythm Management clinical career. Through comprehensive CRM field training and hands-on experience, you will build the clinical, technical, operational, and customer-facing skills needed to support healthcare professionals, Medtronic field teams, and patients.
Job description
A Day in the Life
The Associate Clinical Specialist role is designed as a development pathway into a field-based Cardiac Rhythm Management clinical career. Through comprehensive CRM field training and hands-on experience, you will build the clinical, technical, operational, and customer-facing skills needed to support healthcare professionals, Medtronic field teams, and patients.
Associate Clinical Specialist Highlights
- Complete comprehensive field training designed to build expertise in cardiac rhythm management devices, therapies, procedures, and patient management solutions.
- Support physicians and hospital teams during CRM implants, device checks and interrogations, programming activities, and troubleshooting.
- Learn to provide technical, educational, operational, and clinical support for Medtronic pacing, defibrillation, and remote monitoring technologies.
- Educate physicians, hospital staff, office personnel, and field team members on CRM products, therapies, and solutions.
- Partner with Clinical Specialists, Sales Representatives, and district leadership to understand customer needs and deliver reliable, high-quality support.
- Develop strong clinical judgment, communication, problem-solving, organization, and relationship-building skills in a fast-paced field environment.
- Gain exposure to innovative cardiac technologies that help clinicians manage patients with heart rhythm disorders.
What You Will Do
- Provide technical support for CRM devices and therapies, including system checks and interrogations, implant support, troubleshooting, and other activities aligned with your training and role responsibilities.
- Support accurate patient documentation, inventory and equipment management, programmer software maintenance, and daily coverage coordination.
- Provide product and therapy education to physicians, hospital staff, office personnel, customers, and Medtronic field partners.
- Collaborate with sales leadership and field partners to understand customer needs, market dynamics, and the value of Medtronic CRM solutions.
- Help identify customer opportunities, support purchase order activities, monitor competitive trends, and share relevant field feedback.
- Maintain current knowledge of CRM products, therapies, solutions, and patient management offerings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Location and Work Model
This is a field-based role supporting a designated geographic territory. The individual hired must reside within the assigned area and travel regularly to hospitals, clinics, customer accounts, and business meetings. Clinical Specialists must be available to support urgent customer needs and participate in weekend, holiday, and occasional after-hours coverage as business needs require.
Required Qualifications
To be considered, your resume must clearly demonstrate how you meet one of the following basic requirements:
- Bachelor's degree; OR
- Associate's degree plus a minimum of two years of work experience in healthcare, field sales, or a role utilizing complex mathematics, mechanical concepts, science, or computing; OR
- High school diploma plus a minimum of four years of work experience in healthcare, field sales, or a role utilizing complex mathematics, mechanical concepts, science, or computing.
- Valid driver's license, active vehicle insurance, and a driving record that meets company standards.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in nursing, life sciences, biomedical engineering, or a related discipline.
- Academic, internship, research, volunteer, or work experience in healthcare, medical devices, patient care, engineering, life sciences, or a customer-facing environment.
- Experience presenting technical, scientific, academic, or project-related information to groups or stakeholders.
- Leadership experience through student organizations, athletics, employment, volunteer activities, research, or academic projects.
- Experience working on team-based projects with defined deliverables and deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to learn complex technical information, solve problems, manage competing priorities, and communicate effectively.
Additional Job Requirements
- Travel extensively within the assigned territory, including frequent independent driving of approximately 80% of the time.
- Work in clinical environments with exposure to infectious disease and radiation and use required protective equipment, including wearing 7-9 pounds of lead for extended periods.
- Frequently lift up to 40 pounds using two hands.
- Sit, stand, and walk for 8 or more hours per day and regularly bend, stoop, squat, and maintain balance.
- Use computers and mobile devices and maintain the visual capabilities necessary to support patient care and field-based responsibilities.
- Participate in weekend, holiday, and occasional after-hours coverage based on customer and business needs.
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree; OR Associate's degree plus a minimum of two years of work experience in healthcare, field sales, or a role utilizing complex mathematics, mechanical concepts, science, or computing; OR High school diploma plus a minimum of four years of work experience in healthcare, field sales, or a role utilizing complex mathematics, mechanical concepts, science, or computing
- Valid driver's license, active vehicle insurance, and a driving record that meets company standards
- Travel extensively within the assigned territory, including frequent independent driving of approximately 80% of the time
- Work in clinical environments with exposure to infectious disease and radiation and use required protective equipment, including wearing 7-9 pounds of lead for extended periods
- Frequently lift up to 40 pounds using two hands
- Sit, stand, and walk for 8 or more hours per day and regularly bend, stoop, squat, and maintain balance
- Participate in weekend, holiday, and occasional after-hours coverage based on customer and business needs
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance/Reimbursement
- Simple Steps Well-being Program
- Incentive Plans
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
- Capital Accumulation Plan
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.