Principal Electrical Engineer

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The Principal Electrical Engineer in Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) serves as a recognized technical authority responsible for the architecture, design, verification, and lifecycle support of complex electrical systems used in cardiac mapping and ablation therapies. This role plays a critical leadership function across sustaining engineering, and technology innovation, with a strong emphasis on patient safety, reliability, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation in life‑sustaining medical devices.

The principal engineer operates with a high degree of autonomy, providing technical direction across multiple programs, mentoring other engineers, and influencing cross‑functional decisions spanning systems engineering, firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory teams.

• Serve as the electrical subject‑matter expert for cardiac ablation platforms, including generators, energy delivery systems, sensing and monitoring circuits, and safety‑critical subsystems.
• Define and review electrical architectures, requirements, and design strategies to support RF and pulsed field ablation technologies, ensuring robustness under clinical use conditions.
• Drive trade‑off decisions balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and regulatory constraints.
• Lead or review detailed electrical design activities including high‑voltage circuits, power electronics, sensing and monitoring circuits, isolation schemes, grounding strategies, and EMC‑robust designs.
• Establish and execute verification and validation strategies, ensuring designs meet functional, safety, and reliability requirements across the product lifecycle.
• Provide expert input into design reviews, hazard analyses, and failure investigations involving electrical subsystems.
• Own or strongly influence risk management activities related to electrical hazards, energy delivery, insulation, leakage currents, fault detection, and patient return electrode monitoring.
• Apply Design for Reliability and Design for Safety principles to identify, reduce, and monitor technical risk in compliance with medical device standards and internal quality systems.
• Act as a design technical leader across released product engineering, manufacturing, supplier engineering, service, and quality teams.
• Support sustaining engineering activities including root‑cause analysis of field issues, design changes, component obsolescence, and manufacturing process improvements.
• Interface with external suppliers and partners to ensure continuity of supply and technical alignment with system requirements.
• Mentor and technically develop junior and senior engineers, reinforcing best practices in electrical design, documentation, and problem solving.
• Influence engineering standards, design guidelines, and strategic technology roadmaps within CAS.
• Represent electrical engineering expertise in program reviews, technical escalations, and governance forums.

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• PhD with 3 years of relevant experience.

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.

• Expertise in analog/digital mixed‑signal design, safety‑critical circuit design, EMC/ESD mitigation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions across complex, multidisciplinary systems.

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.

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