Electrical Development Engineer Principal I

Zimmer Biomet; Minnetonka (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Zimmer Biomet in Minnesota seeks an experienced electrical design engineer to lead the design, development, and commercialization of medical devices with electrical components. The role includes mentoring junior staff and translating user needs into compliant design inputs.

You will drive prototypes, verification/validation, and manufacturability, collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet regulatory standards and market needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology from an ABET-accredited school.
• 7+ years of full-time engineering experience (including relevant co-op/intern).

Responsibilities

• Own and lead design of electrical elements for new products and to maintain existing medical devices.
• Mentor and guide less senior development staff within the department.
• Identify and apply new technologies to support design goals and regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams during prototype production, verification/validation and process validation.

Skills

Electrical engineering

PCB design

Embedded systems

EMC design

FPGA/Verilog

Bluetooth/Wireless

Battery management

Statistical methods

Regulatory knowledge

Design for manufacturability

Education

ABET-accredited EE degree

Tools

Mentor Graphics

Altium

Job description

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.
As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

You have a design owner and/or key project role with responsibility for new product design, development, and commercialization relative to all electrical elements; and/or to maintain in the market innovative medical device products in order to further Zimmer Biomet’s mission and grow Zimmer Biomet’s market leadership position. Additionally, you will identify and put into application new technologies to serve the above goals. You will mentor less senior Development staff within the department.

How You'll Create Impact

• Stays current with and understands relevant medical electrical standards and regulations.
• Helps in identifying user needs through engagement with internal teams and observation of similar device usage.
• Translates targeted user needs into design requirements/inputs which satisfy unmet market needs to achieve business goals while also complying with global regulatory requirements and recognized external industry standards
• Creates product designs which fully address targeted user needs/requirements, and authors design rationale to document basis of all design features
• Prepares and reviews information for invention disclosures and patents
• Initiates, provides instruction for and coordinates with support from Zimmer Biomet cross-functional team members in the production and inspection of product prototypes for preliminary evaluation; and final design verification, design validation and process validation
• Creates hardware requirements specifications which defines what the design is intended to do as well as hardware design details which defines how the design is intended to meet specifications. Also provides design elements that appropriately account for design, design for manufacturability (process capability). in-circuit testability and other inspection groundwork.
• Identifies and documents critical to quality product features based on product intended use, design requirements, associated user risks and the design itself to ensure appropriate quality control inspection plans are generated
• Evaluates, verifies and validates product designs relative to design requirements and to reduce user risk in compliance with Zimmer Biomet procedures and global regulatory requirements (includes completing tolerance stack-ups, benchtop testing and executing simulated operating room cadaveric product evaluations)
• Supports Zimmer Biomet Quality, Sourcing and Manufacturing teams with new product design transfer tasks for production of market release quantities

What Makes You Stand Out

• Demonstrated good written and verbal communication skills, able to deliver professional communications to a global audience base
• Microsoft Office Suite software proficiency required
• Demonstrated product design and development execution with a multi-disciplinary project team from user need identification/concept ideation through commercialization desired; medical device particularly orthopedic implant and instrument product design desired
• Demonstrated a general understanding of various electrical/electronic manufacturing processes (including PCB printed circuit board assembly manufacturing,) and material science for application in new product development
• FDA QSR and EU MDR medical device regulatory requirements, and industry/regulatory body recognized technical product standards knowledge required; global medical device regulatory requirements knowledge preferred
• Demonstrated working knowledge of statistics with application to sample size determination, design of experiments and null hypothesis testing preferred.
• Design and testing of printed circuit board assemblies for embedded and electrical systems using an enterprise level EDA package such as Mentor Graphics or Altium.
• Experience with embedded microprocessor design, schematic capture, printed circuit board layout and simulation tools.
• Strong understanding of hardware interfaces and I/O (SPI, UART, A/D, D/A. I2C, CAN. LVDS, MIPI, ect)
• Ability to execute board bring-ups by using advanced debugging and troubleshooting techniques.
• Board level EMC design experience, supporting product level EMC test and EMC issue reolution.
• FPGA/CPLD design proficiency with VHDL (or Verilog) language preferred.
• Bluetooth and wireless design experience desired.
• Motor control experience especially with BLDC desired.
• Li-ion battery pack management desired.
• Minitab experience preferred.

Your Background

• Minimum B.S. degree from an ABET accredited school (or global equivalent) in one of the following engineering disciplines: Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology.
• 7+ years of full-time (including relevant ZB Coop/Intern) engineering experience.

Physical Requirements

Travel Expectations

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability