Principal Electrical Engineer

About the role

The Principal Electrical Engineer in Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) is a recognized technical authority responsible for the architecture, design, verification, and lifecycle support of complex electrical systems used in cardiac mapping and ablation therapies. This role plays a critical leadership function across sustaining engineering, and technology innovation, with a strong emphasis on patient safety, reliability, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation in life-sustaining medical devices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the electrical subject-matter expert for cardiac ablation platforms, including generators, energy delivery systems, sensing and monitoring circuits, and safety-critical subsystems.
• Define and review electrical architectures, requirements, and design strategies to support RF and pulsed field ablation technologies, ensuring robustness under clinical use conditions.
• Drive trade-off decisions balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and regulatory constraints.
• Lead or review detailed electrical design activities including high-voltage circuits, power electronics, sensing and monitoring circuits, isolation schemes, grounding strategies, and EMC-robust designs.
• Establish and execute verification and validation strategies, ensuring designs meet functional, safety, and reliability requirements across the product lifecycle.
• Provide expert input into design reviews, hazard analyses, and failure investigations involving electrical subsystems.
• Own or strongly influence risk management activities related to electrical hazards, energy delivery, insulation, leakage currents, fault detection, and patient return electrode monitoring.
• Apply Design for Reliability and Design for Safety principles to identify, reduce, and monitor technical risk in compliance with medical device standards and internal quality systems.
• Act as a design technical leader across released product engineering, manufacturing, supplier engineering, service, and quality teams.
• Support sustaining engineering activities including root-cause analysis of field issues, design changes, component obsolescence, and manufacturing process improvements.
• Interface with external suppliers and partners to ensure continuity of supply and technical alignment with system requirements.
• Mentor and technically develop junior and senior engineers, reinforcing best practices in electrical design, documentation, and problem solving.
• Influence engineering standards, design guidelines, and strategic technology roadmaps within CAS.
• Represent electrical engineering expertise in program reviews, technical escalations, and governance forums.

Requirements

• 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
• Expertise in analog/digital mixed-signal design, safety-critical circuit design, EMC/ESD mitigation
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions across complex, multidisciplinary systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in analog/digital mixed-signal design, safety-critical circuit design, EMC/ESD mitigation
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions across complex, multidisciplinary systems

Benefits

At Medtronic, we offer a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Further details are available at the link below: Medtronic Benefits And Compensation Plans