Principal Reliability Engineer - Hardware​/Electrical

Quality Core Team Member (QCTM)

At Medtronic, you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

This role is a Quality Core Team Member (QCTM) on the Next-Gen Affera Capital program. The role will lead a small team of engineers supporting development and qualification of new products with enhanced signal and power capabilities and technology improvements on an aggressive timeline. The QCTM role is the voice of the quality organization, supporting the core team leader in driving critical BU strategies, assigned projects, and is accountable for defining the quality strategy and executing the quality deliverables for the project.

Initial phases of the program will prioritize First-In Human feasibility study. Given the electrical design focus of the program, Electrical or Electronics engineering backgrounds are preferred.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.
• As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience
• OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Given the electrical design focus of the program, Electrical or Electronics engineering backgrounds are preferred
• Product Development or Clinical/Feasibility project engineering experience
• DV and Risk Management experience
• Proven experience as a Quality Core Team Member (QCTM)

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to 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 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. The employee 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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

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 approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. 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.

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Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$ - $This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience,…