Senior Reliability Engineer - Medical Devices & DFR Leader

Bracco Medical Technologies; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Company Holidays

401k matching

Tuition reimbursement

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Bracco Medical Technologies in Eden Prairie, MN seeks an experienced Reliability Engineer to lead Design for Reliability (DFR) efforts across hardware and software, mentor engineers, and integrate reliability into product development. You will define metrics, drive root-cause investigations, and collaborate with quality and regulatory teams to ensure ISO 13485 compliance and risk management.

Travel ~10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with relevant systems, electrical, mechanical, biomedical, or software focus.
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding test protocols, system tests, and reports.
• 5+ years in Design for Reliability (DFR) and product development system engineering.
• Experience analyzing field, complaint, and service data for reliability trends.
• Strong RCA experience with corrective actions for complex failures.
• Knowledge of reliability, risk management, and design controls (ISO 14971/13485).
• Ability to communicate across the enterprise and build productive relationships.
• Excellent organizational skills and multi-tasking in a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead DFR methodologies to support hardware and software product development.
• Mentor engineers to improve skills, methodologies, and domain knowledge.
• Develop business cases and plans for reliability programs; present to senior management.
• Review and approve reliability planning, testing and analysis in NPD and sustaining programs.
• Ensure quality and reliability requirements are incorporated across products.
• Contribute to Technical Design Reviews to ensure completeness and effectiveness.
• Define strategy for new tools and processes addressing reliability needs.
• Advocate reliability in business and customer interactions.
• Attract, develop, and retain engineering talent; guide engineers in design reviews.
• Communicate technical updates to stakeholders; manage risk decisions to closure.
• Define reliability metrics and targets using field, complaint, service, and test data.
• Lead investigations for significant field failures and drive improvements.
• Provide reliability input to risk management decisions.
• Measure subsystems and end-to-end reliability to demonstrate customer impact.

Skills

DFR methodologies

Mentoring

Root cause investigations

Data analysis

Systems engineering

Risk management

ISO 14971 / ISO 13485

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's in engineering

PhD in EE / Systems / Reliability

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Bracco Medical Technologies in Eden Prairie, MN seeks an experienced Reliability Engineer to lead Design for Reliability (DFR) efforts across hardware and software, mentor engineers, and integrate reliability into product development. You will define metrics, drive root-cause investigations, and collaborate with quality and regulatory teams to ensure ISO 13485 compliance and risk management.

Travel ~10% may be required.