Prin Systems Engineer at Medtronic in Lafayette, Colorado

Job Description:

Careers that Change Lives

In this role, y ou will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html

Medtronic's Surgical Operating Unit 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

You would be joining our Product Development Organization as a Prin. Development Engineer responsible for the Verification Strategy, Requirement Decomposition, and Specification Development for our robotic projects in development. To us, Verification is not just the last step on the path to commercialization; this role becomes an integral core team member in the Concept phase of the project. You will be responsible for partnering with Systems Engineering, Marketing, the design teams, Quality and Project Management to drive meaningful product requirements, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification strategy. Along the path to launch, you will become a technical contributor towards the success of the product and help establish best-practices and innovative approaches towards proving that our products meet the expectations of the Medtronic Mission.

The responsibilities of this role will include the following:

• Represent the development engineering function on product development extended core teams
• Partner with System Engineering to develop, review and decompose product requirements
• Develop and drive a robust and efficient design verification strategy for product requirements
• Champion studies and/or activities that drive robust design, such as design of experiments, transfer function development, and simulations
• Mentor junior verification engineers working on your projects, and provide feedback on engineering reports, verification protocols, and verification reports
• Liaison with Reliability, Compliance (60601), Hardware (Electrical and Mechanical), and Software teams for your projects
• Lead and/or support cross-functional failure investigations
• Author or review/approve design verification protocols and reports
• Support the development of regulatory submissions for your projects
• Support QMS and/or DHF audits as the development engineer SME on those projects
• Support changes made to your projects post-launch

Working on the Medtronic Campus in Lafayette, CO, you are responsible for driving product development activities in support of surgical robotics platform, including:

• Review and provide input to the development of product requirements
• Review, provide input to and approve test methods
• Design studies and experiments to gain confidence in meeting product requirements
• Analyze test data
• Author Engineering Analyses and Reports
• Plan verification activities
• Author Design Verification Protocols and Reports
• Troubleshoot failures and make recommendations on design, test, or requirement improvements
• Mentor junior engineers on all of the above
• Champion continuous improvement projects, such as implementing new SOPs or WIs related to development engineering

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

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  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
  
  Nice to Have
  
  
  
  • Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in robotics engineering or related field and 5 years of relevant experience
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience with direct medical device development
  • Experience with applying or developing a product according to System Engineering principles
  • A strong understanding of Regulatory requirements for Design Controls and Design Verification
  • Industry-experience with statistical analysis of data
  • Experience with robotics or electro-mechanical systems
  • Proven track record of contributing to medical devices of high complexity
  • Strong communication and inter-personal skills

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, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)