Senior AI Specialist - Minneapolis

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Dec 2025

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.

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.

As part of our HR Digital and AI Transformation, the HR organization is advancing a bold, future-focused strategy to build a digital-first operating model that redefines how HR delivers value. Our vision is to harness the power of AI to create frictionless, personalized employee experiences, unlock innovation, and drive operational excellence. The AI specialist will help in creating a bridge /translator between technical work streams and HR COE’s and process.

This position ensures that AI solutions are seamlessly integrated by accounting for frictionless user experience. Additionally, this role keeps all documentation up to date, ensuring they reflect current systems and industry’s best practices, thereby positioning the HR function at the forefront of technological innovation.

Through a combination functional understanding of underlying technology and understanding of core internal processes, you will bring the best AI solutions that align initiatives with governance policies and business requirements. A key focus is on responsible AI implementation – embedding data privacy and quality safeguards into HR AI solutions.

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.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, business analysts, architects and development teams to understand business requirements and map them to technical requirements based on the high-level design from solution architects and key stakeholders.
• Analyze and review cases obtaining the required resources to ensure the solution delivers the intended benefits.

• Translate AI capabilities into meaningful user experiences through wireframes, prototypes, and interaction models.
• Conduct journey mapping and user research for AI solutions so they can evolve with changing business needs and technologies.

• Test the quality and performance of the solutions/product and its ability to perform a task or solve a problem.
• Documents test cases, User Acceptance, technical artifacts.
• Monitor and evaluate bot performance, ensuring accuracy and reliability.

• Collaborate with vendors and third-party partners to understand product roadmaps, influence enhancements, and ensure the organization’s architecture is future-proof and aligned with industry trends.
• Leverage knowledge to evaluate technological readiness, data availability, and resources to execute the proposed solutions.

• Stay current with the latest AI research, tools, and technologies.
• Acts as a bridge between HR COEs and the AI team.
• Prompt Engineering and AI terminology.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of progressive experience in technical business analysis with significant focus on designing AI/Automation solutions or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years experience.

• AI Project Experience with hands‑on involvement in at least one large AI implementation (e.g. deploying an AI/ML solution, automation or enterprise chatbot).
• Experience with HR systems.
• Technology background - demonstrates the ability to work across a variety of teams and implement solutions in a fast‑paced,…