Quality Engineer II

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Oct 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.

The Design Quality Engineer II in Released Product Engineering Quality for the Wound Management portfolio provides quality engineering support for post-market and sustaining engineering activities across released medical devices. The role helps ensure that design changes, product improvements, and issue resolution activities are executed in compliance with the Medtronic Quality Management System, applicable design control requirements, and product risk management expectations.

This position partners closely with design engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, and other cross-functional teams to assess product changes, support documentation updates, contribute to risk evaluations, and help maintain the safety, effectiveness, reliability, and quality of released products throughout the product lifecycle. This role is well suited for a hands‑on engineer who enjoys digging into problems, asking questions, and translating data into actionable improvements.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
• Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
• May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality. Use statistical tools to analyze data, identify trends, and support decision-making
• Lead and support root cause investigations for quality issues, failures, and nonconformances
• Perform hands‑on troubleshooting, data collection, and experimental verification
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive corrective and preventive actions
• Support validation, verification, and reliability testing activities as needed
• Document findings clearly and communicate technical insights to stakeholders
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts that strengthen product quality and process robustness

An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation -…