Principal Reliability Engineer - Hardware​/Electrical

Position: Principal 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 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,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 reliability objectives.

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

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

+ Maydetermineunits and/or batchesrequiringenvironmentaltesting, andspecifiesminimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

** Required Qualifications*
* + Bachelor's degree anda minimum of7years of relevant experience

+ ORMaster'sdegree witha minimum of5years of relevant experience

+ OR PhD with3years 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)

** 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.

** 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…