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Medtronic Principal Systems Engineer in London, United Kingdom
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.
Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”
Medtronic is looking for a Principal System Engineer to join the Systems Engineering Team within the Surgical Operating Unit. This role will collaborate within the Surgical OU Research and Development organization and across the Medtronic enterprise to define an innovative new solution for intraoperative support.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Identify technical solutions that fit within the defined boundaries of current technical constraints
Identify and document enterprise-level use cases to inform potential business cases and product development strategies
Be accountable for functional analyses, detailed trade-off studies to support product design decisions, requirements allocations at system and subsystem levels, and interface definitions to translate stakeholder needs into requirements and product specifications
Perform technical planning, system integration, verification, and validation, evaluate alternatives (including cost and risk), supportability, and analyses for products and systems
Conduct analyses at all levels of products and systems, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal
Identify test methodologies and authorize test procedures to ensure system verification and design validation
Travel < 25% to the EU and US as needed.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Electrical, Biomedical, Aerospace, Chemical or Software Engineering
Minimum of 7 years relevant systems engineering experience, or an advanced degree with 5 years of relevant systems engineering experience
Robust leadership and communication skills
Demonstrated expertise in new product development
Strong experience developing complex software or electromechanical medical devices
Excellent understanding of design controls and good documentation practices
Experience in applying regulatory standards to products (IEC 60601, 14971, 62366, 62304, ISO 13485 or aerospace equivalents) Willingness to be on-site (minimum 2 -3 days/week in London office)
Experience with wireless communication systems, modern digital video protocols, and multi-function device products is highly desirable. Proficiency in generating, cascading, allocating, and managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle is also preferred. Additionally, experience working in Agile-Scrum development within regulated industries and expertise in designing for reliability, manufacturability, and security is considered a strong asset.
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.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)
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We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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