Sr Reliability Engineer - Santa Ana, CA

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 Jul 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*
* Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

+ Lead as a quality extended team member responsible for driving design, development, and implementation of testing methods and equipment.

+ Compiles data and defines changes required in testing equipment, testing procedures, manufacturing processes, or new testing requirements.

+ Participate in risk management activities including system risk analysis (ISO
14971), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, product risk assessments and assessing specific product issues for impact to patient and/or user safety.

+ Participate in design reviews for the system as well as review and approve design input/design output artifacts including requirements, design documents, test results, verification and validation reports.

+ 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.

+ Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.

+ 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.

** Nice to Have*
* + Medical device industry experience

+ Quality Engineering experience

+ ASQ-CQE, CQA, CBA or equivalent certifications

** TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM:
** 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 - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

** DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS*
* ** Autonomy:
** Seasoned individual contributor.

Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.

Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.

** Organizational Impact:
** May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.

Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

** Innovation and Complexity:
** Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties.

Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.

Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

** Communication and Influence:
** Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.

Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

** Leadership and Talent Management:
** May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.

** Required Knowledge and

Experience:

** Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant…