Principal Systems Engineer (Finance)

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 6 Jun 2025

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
In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Signia family of systems.

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 Systems Engineer to join the Systems Engineering Team within the Surgical Operation Unit. Responsible for both leading and contributing to investigations and identifying root cause of issues associated with the Medtronic Surgical stapling family of products, the successful candidate will work with a cross functional team to support activities associated with a living platform set of products. This includes coordinating between Released Product Engineering, manufacturing, and hardware and software engineering functions to identify impacts and lead change and improvement workstreams. Daily activities also include performing impact assessments, evaluating and updating requirements, and documenting system and subsystem architectures. She or he will own the planning, execution, and documentation of sustaining-supporting systems activities. In this role, she or he will be a critical member of projects in a visible and fast-paced role.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Understand, evaluate, and communicate system performance, desired behavior, and usability in the context of clinical use.
• Investigate internally and externally reported issues to determine root cause and propose process or technical resolution.
• Lead and contribute to Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) and field Issue Investigation processes.
• Participate in Roadmap discussions, evaluation of feature enhancements, and prioritization of fixes and enhancements for the product lines.
• Evaluate functional and performance impact of proposed design changes related to enhancements, cost-down, and component end-of-life issues and others.
• Perform customer, system and subsystem requirement impact assessments, changes, review, and reconciliation.
• Work with engineers to develop an understanding of the technological underpinnings of system architecture and detailed design.
• Employ Model Based Systems Engineering concepts to document and communicate system design changes.
• Oversee, and be deeply acquainted with, regulated development processes and standards for risk management, usability, and safety to ensure systems design changes and documentation meet relevant safety and regulatory standards.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to junior engineers.
• Track and communicate status of deliverables.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 7+ years of engineering experience, or advanced degree with 5+ years of engineering experience.

Nice to Have

• Expert knowledge of Systems Engineering principles and best practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience developing complex electromechanical medical devices.
• Prior experience in product sustaining activities supporting complex launched product updates and enhancements.
• Expert understanding of design controls and good documentation practices.
• Demonstrated cross functional leadership experience.
• Experience in requirements management, risk management, change management, and system architecture documentation.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$128,000.00 - $192,000.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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 , and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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 , Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) , and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

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. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 95,000+ 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 .

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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. ("Medtronic") in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.