Principal Electrical Engineer - CRDN

Position Overview

Principal Electrical Engineer – Mounds View, MN (minimum four days onsite per week). Lead electrical engineering across the full product lifecycle of a next‑generation Renal Denervation RF ablation generator.

• Serve as the principal technical authority for electrical engineering within the RF generator workstream, including concept, architecture, design, fabrication, verification, validation, characterization, integration, and lifecycle support.
• Own the electrical systems development, integration, and electrical characterization for the RF ablation generator.
• Ensure rigorous requirements coverage and decomposition from system and product levels to electrical hardware, including test and verification strategies.
• Partner with systems and functional architects to translate architecture, functionality, and fault‑mitigation strategies into executable electrical engineering solutions.
• Act as the primary technical spokesperson for all electrical engineering design decisions, trade studies, and technical reviews within the workstream.
• Plan and execute robust design, verification, and design‑characterization activities to meet regulatory, safety, and reliability requirements.
• Lead the electrical engineering workstream for major or moderately complex programs, including task planning, delegation, technical review of work products, and serving as project execution lead and scrum master.
• Develop and maintain execution plans, ensuring all electrical deliverables are appropriately scoped, resourced, and scheduled; manage schedules and dependencies with CTM and PMO partners.
• Perform day‑to‑day management of technical priorities, trade‑offs, and issue resolution within the workstream.
• Support planning for electrical engineering spend, resourcing, tools, and equipment.
• Lead and contribute to system and electrical risk management activities, including FMEAs, hazard analyses, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Serve as primary owner for identification, assessment, and communication of electrical and system‑level risks and emerging issues.
• Champion consistent application of the quality system, design controls, and best practices across electrical engineering activities to ensure compliance with regulatory and reliability requirements.
• Ensure strong cross‑functional alignment across systems, software, manufacturing, quality, and program teams; translate electrical design intent and requirements to manufacturing partners to ensure producibility and design transfer readiness.
• Provide regular and ad‑hoc technical and program updates to functional and program leadership.
• Proactively communicate emerging issues, escalations, and risk status to CTM and other stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers across the organization.
• Influence engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to mature electrical engineering capability.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years electromechanical systems / capital equipment experience, or equivalent including hardware and software integration.
• OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years electromechanical systems / capital equipment experience, or equivalent including hardware and software integration.
• OR PhD with 3 years electromechanical systems / capital equipment experience, or equivalent including hardware and software integration.
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree that satisfies 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

• Experience with IEC
  60601‑1.
• Experience with RF energy delivery, SOM’s, FPGA.
• Experience with ISO
  14971.
• Experience with product concept development, customer interaction, systems engineering, verification of engineering requirements, and validation of customer needs/design requirements.

• Competitive salary range: $ – $ (USD).
• Short‑term incentive plan (Medtronic Incentive Plan).
• Health, dental and vision insurance.
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account.
• Life insurance and long‑term disability leave.
• Dependent daycare spending account, tuition…