Sr Systems Engineer - Imaging

Medtronic; Boxborough (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in the United States is seeking a lead engineer to design, develop, test, and document imaging system solutions that integrate hardware and software. You will drive system architecture, define use cases, and guide cross-functional teams to meet clinical and product requirements.

You will plan and execute user evaluations in lab and clinical environments, collaborate with surgeons and field teams, and provide technical leadership across platforms to deliver cohesive, high-quality

Qualifications

• Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques.
• Experience with X-ray imaging systems and image quality optimization.
• Expertise in end-to-end imaging pipelines: detector, acquisition, reconstruction, display.
• Experience with Matlab, Linux, C++, or scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and documentation of imaging system solutions.
• Characterize and optimize image quality at system level.
• Collaborate with marketing, quality, software, hardware, and test teams.
• Define and develop user needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture.
• Plan and execute user evaluations in lab-based environments.

Skills

Imaging system design

Cross-functional leadership

System architecture

User evaluations

AI tools

Matlab

Linux

C++

Scripting

Risk management

Tools

Matlab

Linux

C++

Scripting

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 Aug 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

• Work and lead within a cross‑functional team to design, develop, test, and document innovative imaging system solutions utilizing software and hardware components.
• Lead the characterization and optimization of image quality performance at the system level, considering the interaction of imaging hardware, software, reconstruction, and image processing pipelines.
• Collaborate across marketing, quality, software, hardware, and test teams to ensure the imaging chain meets product requirements and clinical use needs.
• Lead the definition and development of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture.
• Lead the engineering analysis to optimize and select system‑level concepts to ensure the final solution fulfills needs, requirements, use cases, environments, and the overall system vision.
• Plan and execute user evaluations in lab‑based surgical environments or other formative evaluation events to gain insightful feedback on system concepts.
• Partner and collaborate with surgeons, surgical staff, hospital administrators, and Medtronic field teams to translate clinical and operational needs into solutions that integrate seamlessly into surgical practice and hospital systems – enhancing both usability and adoption.
• Collaborate with core team/program leaders, Chief Engineers, product managers, R&T leaders to align technical decisions across platforms/portfolios, resolving integration and experience challenges and delivering solutions that feel cohesive and interconnected.
• Lead teams in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes.
• Troubleshoot system component integration and support surgical procedure integration of the design.
• Provide technical leadership along with computer‑assisted, robotic‑assisted, and clinical procedure subject matter expertise to internal and cross‑business development teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques.
• Experience with X‑ray imaging systems, including system performance characterization and image quality optimization.
• Expertise analyzing end‑to‑end imaging pipelines, including detector behavior, acquisition, calibration, reconstruction, image processing, and display.
• Expertise troubleshooting image quality artifacts and performance limitations in imaging systems.
• Experience applying AI tools effectively, while exercising sound engineering judgment, technical accuracy, and appropriate review of outputs.
• Expertise in leading cross‑functional or multi‑platform engineering activities across product definition, specification, test, and launch.
• Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, and system design.
• Experience planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams.
• Experience with software design, algorithm design, GUI design, and iterative software development practices.
• Familiarity and experience working with Matlab, Linux, C++, or scripting languages.
• Experience with mechanical and