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 LifeThe Senior R&D Electrical Engineer will be a member of the Product Development group within the Robotic Platforms Center of Excellence. You will support R&D Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) systems by triaging defects, investigating root cause, and helping restore systems to working order through a close relationship with the R&D Fleet Management team. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are critical to success in this role, as are hands-on skills and troubleshooting ability.
As the Senior R&D Electrical Engineer, you will:
- Provide rapid response triage (≈25%), root cause analysis (≈75%), and provide recommendation for repair on RAS systems.
- Manage root cause investigations with external suppliers and help drive corrective actions.
- Support design changes related to failure investigations.
- Support reliability hardware investigations.
- Document investigation findings in Medtronic quality systems.
- Work hand in hand with the Released Product Engineering team to share knowledge on R&D failures and support field investigations.
- Support CAPA investigations.
- Maintain Design History Records for work performed on fleet hardware.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Electrical, Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline, with 8 to 10 years of relevant experience.
Additional Skills & Expertise:
- Experience with highly regulated and/or safety-critical systems (medical device experience strongly preferred)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong troubleshooting and analysis skills
- Comfortable working in a fast passed, cross disciplinary environment
- Ability to measure voltage, current, and signal integrity with common electrical debugging tools such as a multimeter and oscilloscope
- Ability to read and understand electrical circuit schematics and wiring diagrams
- Ability to read and understand mechanical and electrical assembly drawings
- Ability to write detailed reports and work instructions
- Familiarity with electronic design tools, e.g., OrCAD and Allegro
- Knowledge of relevant technologies including:
- Mechatronics / Robotics
- Mechanical and electrical interfaces
- Communication protocols
- Sensors, actuators, controllers
- Kinematics of mechanisms
- Vision and display systems
- Experience with sensors such as Encoders, Hall Effect Sensors, Torque, and Load Cells
- Experience with Ethernet
- Familiarity with QNX and Linux operating systems, both GUI and command line interfaces
- Knowledge of PCBA Manufacturing processes
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 & CompensationMedtronic 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 MedtronicWe 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.
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