Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Aug 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.

Medtronic’s Interventional Cardiac Therapies (ICT) Renal Denervation (formally CRDN) business is looking for a Lead Electrical Engineer motivated engineer to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of medical devices. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to accelerate the design and development of next generation medical devices. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions.

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.

This position will be based in Mounds View, MN.

The Senior Principal Electrical Engineer leads the electrical engineering aspects of a new Capital equipment platform, with a primary focus on systems development, characterization, and integration testing for a next‑generation Renal Denervation RF ablation generator. This role serves within the team as the voice of electrical engineering for our new RF generator, providing deep electrical and systems engineering leadership across the full product lifecycle while driving disciplined execution, risk management, and quality compliance.

The role operates with a high degree of autonomy and influence, acting as the electrical engineering lead and workstream owner, including project execution leadership and scrum facilitation, while partnering closely with systems, manufacturing, quality, and program leadership to deliver innovative, compliant medical technologies.

• Represents the electrical engineering team within the RF generator workstream.
• Lead end‑to‑end electrical engineering activities across concepts, architecture, circuit card design, fabrication, verification, validation, characterization, integration, and lifecycle support.
• Own the electrical systems development, integration, and electrical characterization for a next‑generation 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.

• Lead the electrical engineering workstream for major or moderately complex programs, including task planning, delegation, and technical review of work products.
• Serve as project execution lead and scrum master for electrical engineering activities.
• Develop and maintain execution plans ensuring all electrical deliverables are appropriately scoped, resourced, and scheduled.
• Manage schedules and dependencies in collaboration with R&D lead and Project Management Office partners.
• Perform day‑to‑day management of technical priorities, tradeoffs, and issue resolution within the workstream.
• Support planning for electrical engineering spend, resourcing, tools, and…