R&D Engineer - Memphis, TN

Position: R&D Engineer I - Memphis, TN
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 21 Feb 2026

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
** Impact patient outcomes. Come for a job, stay for a career.
As an R&D Engineer I, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to lead new product development; developing and designing implants, instruments, and systems; conducting product and use testing; and managing system interfaces. You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements, design specifications, and mechanical concepts.

You will work under general direction and may serve as a key functional core team member or as an engineer on an extended team. The product focus will be on spinal implants and instrumentation to treat degenerative, deformity, and tumor/trauma conditions.
A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide. We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level:
We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract, and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

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.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
* Supports and implements all aspects of multiple simultaneous designs and development of new medical device products from initial design to market release in accordance with agreed project timelines and NPI Development processes.
* Conceptualizes designs that meet the needs and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business
* Provides technical insight into the definition, evaluation, and mitigation of risk of system designs.  This includes understanding system interfaces, use cases, and conditions, investigating and resolving system and design issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, and supporting testing activities.
* Engages with customers (internal and external) to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs
* Translates customer needs into stakeholder and system requirements
* Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests, experiments, and evaluations, including numerical verification
* Supports the design and execution of verification and validation activities, ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use
* Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results
* Contributes and builds domain knowledge around spinal systems, their clinical use and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches, and training
* Supports documentation throughout all phases of research and development
* Participate in meetings with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
* Investigates and evaluates existing technologies
* Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community
* Maintains training and ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are applicable.  Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work
** Must Have:

Minimum Qualifications
*** Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a…