Principal Systems Engineer (CAS)

Medtronic; Mounds View (MN); On-site; USD 134,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for Cardiac Ablation Solutions in Mounds View, MN. You will lead multidisciplinary systems engineering across hardware, software, disposables, and interfaces, ensuring clear requirements and strong traceability throughout the product lifecycle.

You will partner with Marketing, Clinical, Human Factors and safety teams to translate stakeholder needs into robust system designs, while mentoring engineers and guiding design reviews and regulatory

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, or related field required.
• 7+ years of relevant experience OR Master's with 5+ years OR PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in medical-device or highly regulated environment with design controls.
• Experience with cardiac electrophysiology, mapping, ablation energy delivery, catheters or related accessories.
• Knowledge of medical-device risk management, usability engineering, software lifecycle, cybersecurity, and quality-system expectations.
• Experience with requirements- and lifecycle-tools (Polarion, Jama Connect, DOORS) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (SysML).
• Mentoring and leadership across global or distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering for complex, multidisciplinary medical-device programs and significant product changes.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear system-level inputs across hardware, software, disposables, and interfaces.
• Define, evaluate, and maintain system architecture, interfaces, and performance budgets.
• Lead lifecycle management of requirements with traceability and testability.
• Integrate safety, usability, reliability, cybersecurity into design and risk controls.
• Plan architecture reviews, requirements reviews, and technical decision forums.
• Mentor engineers, drive cross-functional problem solving, and influence program decisions.
• Support design changes, regulatory commitments, and lifecycle management.

Skills

System engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements management

Risk management

SysML

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering

PhD in related field

Tools

Polarion

Jama Connect

DOORS

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Nov 2026Careers 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 LifeCareers That Change LivesThe Cardiac Ablation Solutions business develops cardiac mapping and ablation technologies used to treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms. The Principal Systems Engineer will serve as a recognized technical leader, connecting customer and clinical needs with disciplined systems engineering across capital equipment, software, disposables, catheters, sheaths, accessories, and their interfaces.This role operates across the full product lifecycle, from early concept and architecture through design transfer, commercialization, post-market support, and product evolution. The engineer will influence cross-functional decisions, resolve ambiguous system-level challenges, mentor technical teams, and strengthen systems engineering practices across CAS.At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working onsite 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects. This position will be located in Mounds View, MN.System leadership. Lead systems engineering activities for complex, multidisciplinary medical-device programs and significant product changes.Customer and clinical needs. Partner with Marketing, Clinical, Human Factors, Medical Safety, and field-facing teams to translate stakeholder needs, use cases, and use environments into clear system-level design inputs.Architecture and interfaces. Define, evaluate, and maintain system architecture, functional decomposition, interfaces, operating modes, performance budgets, and key design trade-offs across hardware, software, firmware, disposables, and accessories.Requirements and traceability. Lead development, review, allocation, and lifecycle management of stakeholder, system, subsystem, interface, and performance requirements, ensuring clarity, testability, consistency, and end-to-end traceability.Risk management. Integrate product safety, usability, reliability, cybersecurity, and software risk considerations into system design; ensure risk controls are appropriately implemented, traced, and verified.Verification and validation. Establish system verification and validation strategies, including methods, acceptance criteria, test architecture, evidence plans, and resolution of system-level anomalies.Technical reviews. Plan and lead architecture reviews, requirements reviews, design reviews, trade studies, and technical decision forums. Communicate conclusions, residual risks, and recommendations to project and functional leadership.Problem solving. Lead cross-functional root-cause investigations and system-level troubleshooting for complex design, integration, field, manufacturing, supplier, and product-performance issues.Lifecycle stewardship. Support design changes, component obsolescence, CAPA and corrective actions, regulatory commitments, supplier changes, product enhancements, and continuity-of-supply initiatives.Technical influence. Serve as a technical authority who influences without direct authority, aligns global teams, and helps programs make balanced decisions across patient safety, quality, performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and serviceability.Capability building. Mentor systems engineers and partner disciplines; create reusable methods, templates, models, and lessons learned that improve predictability and technical excellence.External collaboration. Engage suppliers, consultants, laboratories, clinicians, and other external partners when specialized capabilities or system evidence are required.Key DeliverablesStakeholder and system requirements, interface requirements, and traceability evidenceSystem context, architecture, functional decomposition, use scenarios, and interface definitionsTechnical trade studies, engineering analyses, performance budgets, and decision recordsSystem risk contributions, risk-control traceability, and benefit-risk inputsSystem verification and validation strategies, plans, protocols, reports, and anomaly dispositionsFormal design review content and objective evidence supporting phase or business decisionsTechnical assessments supporting regulatory submissions, audits, CAPA, field actions, and product changesPost-market system performance assessments and prioritized improvement recommendations.Must Have: Minimum Requirements - To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.Bachelors degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related degree program required.Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)Experience in the medical-device or other highly regulated industry and familiarity with design controls and product lifecycle processes.Experience with cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac mapping, ablation energy delivery, therapeutic catheters, sheaths, generators, navigation or visualization systems, or related accessories.Working knowledge of medical-device risk management, usability engineering, software lifecycle, electrical medical equipment, cybersecurity, and quality-system expectations.Experience with requirements and application-lifecycle tools such as Polarion, Jama Connect, IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS, or equivalent.Experience with model-based systems engineering, SysML, architecture frameworks, simulation, or system modeling tools.Practical experience with Design for Reliability and Manufacturability, statistical methods, test method development, root-cause analysis, and structured problem solving.Experience supporting regulatory submissions, notified-body or agency interactions, audits, CAPA, complaint investigations, or field corrective actions.Demonstrated mentoring, coaching, and technical-community leadership across global or distributed teams.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 or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America).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. Learn more about our benefits here .In addition to Base Salary, this position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan, which provides the opportunity to earn significant incentive compensation for achieving or exceeding your goals. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here .The provided base salary range is used nationally in the United States (except in Puerto Rico and certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.About Medtronic: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.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 RequirementsThe 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.U.S. Work Authorization & SponsorshipAt Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.Recruitment Fraud AlertWe are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind:Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses.Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate.If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.If you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at [e-mail] .Benefits & CompensationMedtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits PackageA 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):$134,400.00 - $201,600.00Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 81,120.00 EUR - 121,680.00 EUR |The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.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).The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance , Health Savings Account , Healthcare Flexible Spending Account , Life insurance, Long-term disability leave , Dependent daycare spending account , Tuition assistance/reimbursement , and Simple Steps (global well-being program).The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match , Short-term disability , Paid time off , Paid holidays , Employee Stock Purchase Plan , Employee Assistance Program , Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) , and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.Further details are available at the link below:Medtronic benefits and compensation plansIt 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.If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. 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