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

Position: Principal Product Engineer - NM - Rice Creek, MN (Onsite)
Location: Minneapolis

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Jul 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

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.

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Medtronic Brain Modulation and Pain Interventions

In this role as Principal Product Engineer, you will lead the technical development of Neuromodulation products from early feasibility through market release. These products support therapies for conditions such as chronic pain, cancer pain, severe spasticity, epilepsy, dystonia, essential tremor, and Parkinson's disease, and include implantable and external neurostimulators, implantable infusion pumps, as well as associated recharge and programming systems.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams to translate clinical needs and emerging technologies into product requirements and design specifications. This includes providing technical direction, guiding verification and validation activities, and driving risk assessment and mitigation throughout the development lifecycle. You will also partner with manufacturing and suppliers to ensure alignment on requirements, specifications, and risk management, supporting seamless integration across the broader development process.

Onsite

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.

Job Description

As Principal Product Engineer, your responsibilities may include, but not limited to:

* 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

Must Have:

Minimum Requirements

* Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer or Biomedical Engineering with minimum of 7 years of experience designing requirements developments and structure, OR

* Master's degree in Electrical, Computer or Biomedical Engineering with minimum of 5 years of experience designing requirements developments and structure,…