Principal Product Engineer - NM - Rice Creek, MN; Onsite

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long journey of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all.

As one of three comprehensive portfolios at Medtronic, Neuroscience is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with neurological disorders, spine conditions, and chronic pain. Guided by our Mission—to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—we develop technologies and therapies that help people regain function, reduce pain, and return to the activities that matter most.

Our Neuromodulation Operating Unit provides advanced therapies for chronic pain, movement disorders, and other neurological conditions. Through spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and targeted drug delivery systems, we deliver personalized treatments that restore function, reduce symptoms, and improve quality of life worldwide.

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.

• Develop and execute the overall technical strategy for product development
• Partner with Systems, Labeling, Marketing, Regulatory, and other cross-functional teams to define and deliver designs that meet customer and system requirements, ensuring alignment across functional interfaces
• Translate product needs into clear requirements and allocate design and verification responsibilities accordingly
• Identify technical risks and lead the development and execution of risk mitigation plans
• Facilitate cross-functional communication to drive design decisions, align on test strategies, review results, and resolve technical issues
• Lead and maintain design failure modes and effects analyses (DFMEA)
• Collaborate with suppliers and manufacturing partners to ensure effective flow-down of requirements and risks, and alignment between process and design maturity for builds and testing
• Establish and oversee design verification plans, ensuring technical rigor throughout development
• Support regulatory submissions and enable smooth knowledge transfer to sustaining/continuation engineering teams
• Translate customer needs and emerging technologies into hardware technology roadmaps

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer or Biomedical Engineering with a minimum of 7 years of experience designing requirements, developments and structure
• Master’s degree in Electrical, Computer or Biomedical Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of experience designing requirements, developments and structure
• PhD degree in Electrical, Computer or Biomedical Engineering with a minimum of 3 years of experience designing requirements, developments and structure

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.

• Product risk assessment and risk management experience (Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, etc.)
• Collaboration experience with Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, and/or Biomedical Design Engineers
• Experience working with Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Processes
• Product development experience from concept to market release
• Familiarity with International Standards applicable to medical devices such as ISO 14708-1 or IEC 60601
• Project Management experience

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform. For Office Roles: the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile, interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers.

U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above. 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.