Sr Principal Electrical Engineer

Medtronic; Mounds View (MN); On-site; USD 168,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer for their Cardiac Rhythm Management team. This role will focus on product development for lifesaving devices, including pacemakers and defibrillators, requiring strong technical leadership and electrical engineering skills. Join a culture committed to innovation and quality as you lead engineering initiatives that save lives.

Benefits

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Tuition Assistance

401(k) Plan with Employer Match

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant experience for Bachelor's or 8 years for advanced degree.
• Strong background in electrical engineering focused on medical devices.
• Mentorship skills for junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on complex design programs.
• Design, develop, analyze, and debug new product designs.
• Integrate systems and validate test environments.

Skills

Technical leadership

PCB design methodology

Circuit simulation

Debugging electrical designs

Modeling in MATLAB

Fluency in programming

Education

Bachelor’s degree or Advanced degree

Tools

PSPICE

LTSPICE

C/C++

MATLAB

LabVIEW

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Jun 2025

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life 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.

The Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer will be an individual contributor within the Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management Electrical System Design Team. The individual will be involved in all phases of product development including definition, design, troubleshooting, characterization, and verification of implantable pulse generators (pacemakers), implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and implantable diagnostic devices as well as external patient communicators, programmers, and monitors. The individual will be an integral part of the R&D organization delivering the highest quality, lifesaving technology to our patients.

The position is in Mounds View, MN (Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area).

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

• Provide technical leadership on complex design programs. Potential to lead teams electrical engineers on a program and act as technical liaison to program management

• Provide electrical engineering skills to design, develop, analyze, and debug new product designs including analog and digital circuitry

• Integrate electronics, firmware, and mechanical designs into final product

• Develop production test requirements and support development of manufacturing test applications

• Liaison to manufacturing sites including PCB and Device assembly

• Develop test procedures to evaluate, characterize, and verify new electrical and product designs.

• Interpret and decompose system and product requirements, verify compliance.

• Develop test environments including automation and emulation

• Validation of test environments including method validation and non-product software validation

• Mentor junior level engineers
  

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience or an advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated technical leadership ability

• Strong background in PCB design methodology including CAD tools and manufacturing processes

• Circuit simulation in tools such as PSPICE or LTSPICE

• Ability to evaluate and debug electrical designs including RF performance

• Experience with design, verification, and validation of Class III medical devices or similar regulated product

• Experience modeling in MATLAB

• C/C++, LabVIEW and/or Python scripting

• Familiarity with ISO 14708 and/or IEC60601

• Strong oral and written communication
  
  

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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.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$168,000.00 - $252,000.00 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 plans

About Medtronic

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

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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