Sr Principal Systems Engineer

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Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Research & Development (R&D) organization is looking for a motivated engineer with experience in systems engineering principles and practices to work in a systems engineering role for product development.

The position responsibilities will focus on system concept and architecture, requirements and design, integration, verification, and validation for products within the CRM ecosystem. You will be responsible for partnering with systems engineer peers, marketing, product design teams, quality and program management to drive meaningful design inputs, a robust design, and ultimately an efficient and effective verification and validation strategy. Along the path to launch, you will become a technical contributor towards the success of the product and help establish best-practices and innovative approaches towards proving that our products meet the expectations of the Medtronic Mission.

Candidates should have demonstrated ability to execute independently after receiving high level scope and constraints.

All work is done onsite 4 days per week. This role requires less than 10% travel.

This position is on-site in Mounds View, MN.

• Provide overall technical leadership for the solution
• Lead the transformation of desired outcomes into quality solutions for customers
• Drive and monitor the technical content, integrity, and integration of the system
• Drive collaboration with cross‑functional partners to achieve technical alignment
• Identify top project technical risks and drive activities to mitigate risk
• Evolve the solution to address learnings from the risk burndown and system integration activities
• Mature solution concepts with cross‑functional partners to address trade‑offs and allocation to subsystems
• Communicate solution concepts to the core team, business, and cross‑functional teams
• Drive organizational alignment of system solutions through influence
• Lead the identification of the Systems Engineering activities, durations, dependencies, and work breakdown structure and delegate appropriate tasks to systems engineers on the project team
• Develop the system engineers on the project team through coaching/mentoring
• Lead the Systems Team supporting the project, responsible for providing technical review and decisions related to the technical content and escalating challenges with recommendations
• Accountable for technical correctness of final delivered solution

• Lead user engagement sessions to collect user inputs
• Define user workflows and drive procedure development solutions
• Drive implementation of the technical aspects of selected solution using Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices: define design inputs, define system design, allocate functionality/performance to subsystems, and review subsystem designs
• Define and execute plans to drive maturity of technology and algorithmic features, to reduce risk as necessary
• Develop and execute system risk burn down activities to retire risk and demonstrate system capability
• Lead teams to develop and execute a robust and efficient system verification and validation strategy
• Establish evaluation & launch strategy (e.g., alpha/beta testing, key performance indicators)

• Define and execute best practices of Systems Engineering processes, advocate for high quality engineering
• Mentor systems engineers on Systems Engineering principles and practices including MBSE, requirement flow down, interface definition, trade‑offs and transfer functions, and continuous integration and development
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to identify opportunities for Digital Engineering solutions that drive quality and speed
• Drive cross‑program alignment in development and use of MBSE capabilities
• Drive strategic initiatives aimed at making our systems engineering processes and tools more efficient

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline, computer science or electrical engineering preferred
• Experience with Digital Engineering
• Experience in defining modeling patterns and/or UML Profiles
• Experience with Sparx Enterprise…