Senior R&D Engineer - Cardiovascular Surgery

A Day in the Life

Medtronic's Cardiovascular Surgery R&D group is looking for a motivated engineer to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of medical devices. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to maintain the design integrity of commercially available products. The Sr. R&D Engineer will apply advanced engineering principles, theories, and concepts in working on complex technical problems and will provide technical leadership on post market objectives.

Responsibilities

• Maintain product design integrity of commercially available products using sound engineering principles while working within appropriate Design Control requirements.
• Apply problem solving skills, critical thinking, technical principles, and theories to solve complex problems in the field of aortic disease treatment.
• Investigate product design and reliability issues in partnership with other R&D Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers, and other cross-functional departments to determine root cause and implement solutions.
• Review and approve change orders of post-market products ensuring design integrity and reliability targets are met.
• Review and approve design and process qualifications.
• Review and approve verification and validation documentation.
• Oversee process development objectives of internal and external manufacturing partners.
• Develop technical solutions and conduct testing, evaluate results using appropriate statistical analysis tools, and generate test reports.
• Work collaboratively with external suppliers and business partners as well as internal cross-functional team members to maintain post market product quality.
• Provide technical input supporting submissions to regulatory bodies and governmental agencies.

Qualifications

Must Have - Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and a minimum of 4 years of technical work experience OR a Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years technical work experience.

Nice to Have: High level proficiency of technical principles, theories, and design concepts in the field of medical device design; experience with failure analysis and statistical techniques; Nitinol material and stent processing experience a plus; experience with textile and suture development and testing a plus; experience in design verification and validation; experience with design and process qualification; demonstrated ability to lead others from a technical perspective while building a collaborative work environment.