Sr Systems Engineer: ENT Medical Devices

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 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.

As a Senior Systems Engineer within the Navigated Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) organization you will utilize your extensive technical expertise in solving complex problems and in designing system solutions using computer-assisted surgery technology to improve patient outcomes and surgical efficiency.

The Cranial & Spinal Technologies business develops life-restoring therapies and healthcare solutions that span the care continuum; integrating technologies and applying clinical and economic evidence to increase patient access, improve efficiency of procedures and deliver successful patient outcomes.

• You will drive technical decision-making within the team to be consistent with big-picture design goals and system functionality
• You will work and lead within a cross-functional team to design, develop, test, and document innovative system solutions utilizing software and hardware components.
• You will lead the definition and development of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture.
• You will 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.
• You will lead the planning and execution of user evaluations in lab-based surgical environments or other formative evaluation events to gain insightful feedback on system concepts.
• You will lead the team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes.
• You will troubleshoot system component integration and support surgical procedure introduction of the design.
• You will provide technical leadership to internal and cross-business development teams, serving as a subject matter expert in computer-assisted surgery and clinical procedural workflows.

A Bachelors’ degree in an Engineering or Science Discipline and 4+ years of relevant experience or an advanced degree and 2+ years of relevant experience.

• Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques.
• Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, system design, and safety risk management.
• 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 scripting languages, Polarion, Miro, or Figma.
• Experience with mechanical and/or electrical design, mechanical/electrical drawings, tolerance analysis, and computer-aided design (CAD).
• Familiarity with modern AI-enabled tools for drafting, analysis, knowledge synthesis, and software or system development support.
• Ability to apply AI tools effectively while exercising sound engineering judgment, technical accuracy, and appropriate review of outputs.
• Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions.
• Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.
• Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the‑art
• Project management skills including leading a project team as well as planning and estimation of tasks, milestones, resources, and budget.
• Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.
• Ability to drive change.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that…