Senior Systems Engineer

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A Day in the Life

The Cranial & Spinal Technologies business develops life-restoring therapies and healthcare solutions that span the care continuum; integrating technologies and applying clinical and economic evidence to increase patient access, improve efficiency of procedures and deliver successful patient outcomes.

• As a Senior Systems Engineer within the CST Platforms and Solutions organization you will utilize your extensive technical expertise in solving complex problems and in designing system solutions using computer-assisted and robotic-assisted surgery technology to improve patient outcomes and surgical efficiency.
• Primary Responsibilities:

• •You will work and lead within a cross-functional team to design, develop, test, and document innovative system solutions utilizing software and hardware components.
• •You will lead the definition and development of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture.
• •You will lead the engineering analysis to optimize and select system-level concepts to ensure the final solution fulfills needs, requirements, use cases, environments, and the overall system vision.
• •You will lead the planning and execution of user evaluations in lab-based surgical environments or other formative evaluation events to gain insightful feedback on system concepts.
• •You will lead the team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes.
• •You will troubleshoot system component integration and support surgical procedure introduction of the design.
• •You will provide technical leadership along with computer-assisted, robotic-assisted, and clinical procedure subject matter expertise to internal and cross-business development teams.

Required Qualifications:

• •A Bachelors’ degree in an Engineering or Science Discipline and 4+ years of relevant experience or an advanced degree and 2+ years of relevant experience.
• •Fluent in technical English – verbal & written

Preferred Qualifications:

• •Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques.
• •Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, system design, and safety risk management.
• •Experience planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams.
• •Experience with software design, algorithm design, GUI design, and iterative software development practices.
• •Familiarity and experience working with scripting languages, Polarion, Jira, Miro, or Figma.

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.

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Benefits & Compensation

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).