Systems Engineer II at Medtronic in Lafayette, Colorado

Job Description:

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
In this role, you 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

Medtronic is looking for a Systems Engineer II to join the Systems Engineering Team within the Surgical Operation Unit. This role will collaborate across the Surgical OU Research and Development organization and operate with the Hugo™ Robotically Assisted Surgical System to bring innovative new instruments to patients. The successful candidate will work with a cross functional team to assist in functional decompositions, customer and product requirement development, and system and subsystem architecture documentation. She or he will also engage in the execution and documentation of trade-off studies, prototype evaluations, and clinical acceptability studies.

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

Assist in requirements development and traceability

Contribute to functional analysis and decomposition

Document system and subsystem architecture

Understand, evaluate, and communicate system performance, desired behavior, and usability in the context of clinical use.

Engage with design quality assurance in risk management activities

Employ Model Based Systems Engineering to document and communicate system design

Investigate system integration issues to identify root cause and propose resolution

Hands-on work with products in simulated use environments

Work closely with verification and validation engineers to review and refine test methods, protocols, and reports

Support Systems Engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle including design change impact analysis, labelling and packaging requirements, field issue investigation

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of Systems Engineering principals and best practices

• Strong communication skills

• Experience in new product development

• Experience developing complex electromechanical medical devices

• Experience with design controls and good documentation practices

• Awareness of standards including IEC 60601, ISO 14971, ISO 13485 and 62366

• Bachelor's degree in Biomedical , Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering required

• Advanced degree in Biomedical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering

• Minimum of 2 years' experience as a contributing member to engineering projects

• Strong organization acumen with the ability to communicate effectively to non-technical audiences

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and contribute to a cross functional product development team

• Knowledge of requirements management, risk management, and system architecture documentation

• Familiarity with tools such as Enterprise Architect, Jira, Jama, and Oracle Agile.

• Experience working on products of high complexity in a regulated environment

• Understanding of structured product development

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. • 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.

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):$83,200.00 - $124,800.00

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 States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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