Sr. Reliability Engineer - Hardware​/Electrical

Application window will close on 29 Jun 2026.

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.

The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm.

• Develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Complete risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
• Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• Develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.
• Propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability as necessary.
• Determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specify minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.
• Additional product reliability responsibilities may be included, primarily focused on Affera Capital (HW) equipment DRM, change management, risk management, and risk response.

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
• OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

• Thorough understanding and experience in design controls, V&V, and risk management – both commercial and development.
• System‑thinking and process mapping, ability to effectively identify interfaces, dependencies, and control points.
• Demonstrated ability in stakeholder management and coordinating complex assignments with cross‑functional teams.
• Understanding of 21
  
  CFR
  820, ISO
  13485, and ISO
  14971.
• Medical device experience.
• Electrical / electronic experience.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the responsibilities section are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For office roles, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile, interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co‑workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the work conditions and physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Medtronic offers U.S. work authorization sponsorship exclusively for Principal‑level roles and above. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Salary ranges for U.S. (excl. PR) locations (USD): $ – $. This position is eligible…