Sr Systems Engineer: ENT Medical Devices

A Day in the Life

As a Senior Systems Engineer within the Navigated Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) organization you will utilize your extensive technical expertise in solving complex problems and in designing system solutions using computer-assisted surgery technology to improve patient outcomes and surgical efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical decision-making within the team to be consistent with big-picture design goals and system functionality
• Work and lead within a cross-functional team to design, develop, test, and document innovative system solutions utilizing software and hardware components
• Lead the definition and development of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture
• Lead the engineering analysis to optimize and select system-level concepts to ensure the final solution fulfills needs, requirements, use cases, environments, and the overall system vision
• Lead the planning and execution of user evaluations in lab-based surgical environments or other formative evaluation events to gain insightful feedback on system concepts
• Lead the team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes
• Troubleshoot system component integration and support surgical procedure introduction of the design
• Provide technical leadership to internal and cross-business development teams, serving as a subject matter expert in computer-assisted surgery and clinical procedural workflows

Minimum Requirements

• A Bachelors' degree in an Engineering or Science Discipline and 4+ years of relevant experience or an advanced degree and 2+ years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques
• Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, system design, and safety risk management
• Experience planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams
• Experience with software design, algorithm design, GUI design, and iterative software development practices
• Familiarity and experience working with scripting languages, Polarion, Miro, or Figma
• Experience with mechanical and/or electrical design, mechanical/electrical drawings, tolerance analysis, and computer-aided design (CAD)
• Familiarity with modern AI-enabled tools for drafting, analysis, knowledge synthesis, and software or system development support
• Ability to apply AI tools effectively while exercising sound engineering judgment, technical accuracy, and appropriate review of outputs
• Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions
• Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas
• Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art
• Project management skills including leading a project team as well as planning and estimation of tasks, milestones, resources, and budget
• Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities
• Ability to drive change

Benefits

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program

Pay

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $110,400.00 - $165,600.00. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.