Senior Quality Engineer - Minneapolis

XOM Medtronic Xomed, LLC; Fridley (MN); On-site; USD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Life insurance

Job summary

Medtronic ENT is seeking a seasoned quality professional to develop, implement, and maintain rigorous standards across sustaining and post-market product life cycles. The role acts as a technical expert on risk management, design quality oversight for changes, and statistical analysis to ensure product reliability.

The position involves collaboration with engineering and manufacturing, travel to U.S. sites, and mentorship within the Quality function.

Qualifications

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains rigorous quality standards and protocols for processing materials into finished products, focusing on sustaining and post-market phases.
• Collaborates with engineering, design, and manufacturing to ensure quality standards and DHF maintenance.
• Demonstrates strong risk management by inspecting, testing, and evaluating product precision and supporting risk assessments.
• Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms; conducts QA tests; performs statistical analysis to assess nonconforming products.
• Ensures corrective actions meet reliability standards and regulatory requirements.
• Travel to design and manufacturing sites within the USA to support projects, audits, and reviews.

Skills

Risk management

Design quality oversight

Statistical analysis

Quality standards

Travel to sites

Education

Baccalaureate degree

Tools

Statistical software

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 5 Sep 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 Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey. Our ENT operating unit provides innovative technologies for sinus, otology, neurotology, head & neck, skull base, and airway care. With advanced instruments, image-guided systems, and implants, we enhance precision, safety, and efficiency, supporting clinicians with education and clinical guidance to improve patient outcomes. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic ENT

This is a seasoned individual contributor role responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining rigorous quality standards and protocols during the sustaining and post-market phases of the product lifecycle. The Specialist serves as a key technical expert, working with limited supervision, who must demonstrate substantial expertise in risk management (e.g., assessing product risk and supporting field actions). This role involves providing design-quality oversight for product changes (including design change analysis and DHF maintenance), and using advanced inspection, testing, and statistical analysis methods to ensure product precision, accuracy, and compliance with all required standards and documentation. A successful candidate will drive process improvements within the Quality function, manage projects, use specialized knowledge to influence internal stakeholders and external vendors, often requiring travel to design sites within the US, and provide guidance and mentorship. The core mission is to proactively assess, mitigate, and resolve complex technical issues to guarantee product reliability and regulatory adherence. 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’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Responsibilities

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains rigorous quality standards and protocols for processing materials into finished products, with a specific focus on the sustaining and post-market phases of the product lifecycle.
• Collaborates with engineering, design, and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are established and maintained, including providing Design Quality oversight for product changes, design change analysis, and Design History File (DHF) maintenance.
• Demonstrates strong expertise in risk management by devising and implementing methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating product precision and accuracy, and supporting complex risk assessments (e.g., product risk and field action support).
• Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with all regulatory requirements.
• Required to travel to design and manufacturing sites within the USA to support technical projects, audits, and design quality reviews.
• May specialize in design quality, product evaluation, reliability engineering, and process quality as they apply to the management of released product portfolios.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
• Nice to have: Site transfer experience Pharma or combination product Risk Management.

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. 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 & Sponsorship

At 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.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package.

• Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$98,400.00 - $147,600.00
• This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
• 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
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• 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)
• 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.

Further details are available at the link below: Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

Equal Employment Opportunity

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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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 95,000+ 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. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world ...