Electrical Engineer II - Cardiac Ablation Solutions

Medtronic; Mounds View (MN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Benefits Package

Hybrid work

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Minnesota is seeking an Electrical Engineer II for Cardiac Ablation Solutions to design, verify, and sustain electrical subsystems for cardiac mapping and ablation therapies.

You will collaborate across systems engineering, firmware, mechanical, quality, and regulatory teams, contribute to risk assessments, and lead assigned workstreams with a focus on safety and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with 2+ years of relevant experience or advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Support electrical design activities for cardiac ablation platforms and safety-critical subsystems.

Skills

Electrical design

Mixed-signal design

EMC/ESD mitigation

System collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree + 2 years

Master's degree + 0 years

PhD + relevant experience

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 1 Nov 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

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Our Purpose

The Electrical Engineer II in Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) contributes to the architecture, design, verification, and lifecycle support of complex electrical systems used in cardiac mapping and ablation therapies. This role supports sustaining engineering and technology development efforts, with a strong emphasis on patient safety, reliability, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation in medical devices.

This engineer works with growing independence, contributing technical input across programs, collaborating with cross‑functional teams including systems engineering, firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory, and taking ownership of assigned workstreams. The role should also be open to supporting project planning and coordination activities as needed.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

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

• Support electrical design activities for cardiac ablation platforms, including generators, energy delivery systems, sensing and monitoring circuits, and safety‑critical subsystems.
• Contribute to the development and review of electrical architectures, requirements, and design approaches to support RF and pulsed field ablation technologies, ensuring robustness under clinical use conditions.
• Support trade‑off decisions balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and regulatory constraints.
• Contribute to detailed electrical design activities including high‑voltage circuits, power electronics, sensing and monitoring circuits, isolation schemes, grounding strategies, and EMC‑robust designs.
• Support and execute verification and validation activities, ensuring designs meet functional, safety, and reliability requirements across the product lifecycle.
• Provide technical input into design reviews, hazard analyses, and failure investigations involving electrical subsystems.
• Support risk management activities related to electrical hazards, energy delivery, insulation, leakage currents, fault detection, and patient return electrode monitoring, with ownership of assigned deliverables.
• Apply Design for Reliability and Manufacturability principles to identify, reduce, and monitor technical risk in compliance with medical device standards and internal quality systems.
• Act as a design technical leader across released product engineering, manufacturing, supplier engineering, service, and quality teams.
• Support sustaining engineering activities including root‑cause analysis of field issues, design changes, component obsolescence, and manufacturing process improvements.
• Interface with external suppliers and partners to support continuity of supply, technical alignment with system requirements, and coordination of assigned tasks or project activities.
• Share technical knowledge and collaborate with other engineers to support sound electrical design, documentation, and problem solving.
• Contribute to engineering standards, design guidelines, and continuous improvement efforts within CAS.
• Represent electrical engineering in program reviews, technical discussions, and issue‑resolution forums as needed.

Key Skills & Experience

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
• OR Master's degree with a minimum of 0 years of relevant experience
• OR PhD with relevant experience

Nice to Have Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience in analog/digital mixed‑signal design, safety‑critical circuit design, and EMC/ESD mitigation.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to technical decisions within complex, multidisciplinary systems, with a willingness to take ownership of assigned work and support project execution.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package #LI-Hybrid

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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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