IC Design Engineer II

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on 17 Jul 2026.

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

At Medtronic, our ASICs save lives. This means our designers need to understand the big picture of how their work impacts the end user, a patient. We have an integrated ASIC team enabling engineers to wear many hats from digital design, verification, physical flow, to testing in the lab with opportunities to meet doctors and witness implants; which connects how our work directly impacts patients' lives.

Our group is developing Medtronic's next generation of Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) products using innovative low power SoC methods to improve how our implantable devices provide pacing, defibrillation, and monitoring therapies.

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.

This position will be based in Mounds View, MN.

• Micro‑architecture:
  Transform high‑level architectural requirements into detailed hardware specifications.
• RTL Coding:
  Write clean, synthesizable, and high‑performance RTL using System Verilog and Verilog.
• Testbench Development:
  Use and update robust, scalable, and reusable verification environments using System Verilog and UVM.
• Prototyping & Lab Debug:
  Assist with silicon bring‑up, hardware characterization, and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
• Documentation & Reviews:
  Create detailed design documentation and present your work in internal design reviews.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 2 years design engineering of electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry.
• Or an advanced degree with 0 years of experience.

• Medical device industry experience preferred.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Tcl, Perl…).
• Synopsys or Cadence tools:
  Verdi/VCS/Xcelium/Simvision/vmanager.
• Experience in IC fault simulations.
• Lab automation methods.
• Passion for automating processes and tool flows; including the use of agentic AI.
• Good communication skills (written and verbal) and ability to work and contribute in a team‑based matrix environment.
• Professional/Academic hands‑on exposure for digital and analog IC designs.
• Ability to demonstrate innovation in defining and solving problems.

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 are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description 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:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile and is also required to 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.

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise‑wide workforce planning…