Sr. Reliability Engineer - Hardware​/Electrical

Position: Sr. Reliability Engineer - Hardware / Electrical
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 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.

** A Day in the Life*
* 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 is an exciting opportunity to support the continued scaling and improvement of Affera HW system in the Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) Operating Unit as a Senior Reliability Engineer. The Affera system is a primary portfolio driver for the CAS OU with integrated mapping, navigation, RF, and PF ablation functionality. This Reliability role is on the Affera HW REL team with full lifecycle scope and a focus on released product engineering, next generation ablation generator development, and quality response.

The role will report to the Sr. Manager for Affera Capital (HW) Reliability Engineering team.  

** About the Affera Mapping and Ablation System*
* 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.

** Primary Responsibilities*
* + Develops,coordinate sand 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 studiesofnew designand 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 reliabilityobjectives.

+ May develop mathematical models toidentifyunits,batchesor processes posing excessive failure risks.

+ As necessary,proposeschanges in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.

+ Maydetermineunits and/or batchesrequiringenvironmentaltesting, andspecifiesminimum 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

** Required Qualifications*
* + Bachelor's degree anda minimum of4years of relevant experience

+ ORMaster'sdegree witha minimum of2years of relevant experience

+ OR PhD with0years relevant experience

** Preferred Qualifications*
* + Thorough understanding and experience in design controls, V&V, and Risk Management - both commercial and development.

+ System-thinking and process mapping, ability to effectivelyidentifyinterfaces, 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

** LI-MDT*
* 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.

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