Senior Principal Systems Engineer

at  Medtronic

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
Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that’s what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.
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.
Medtronic is looking for a Senior Principal Systems Engineer, reporting to a Systems Engineer Manager within the Systems Center of Excellence of the Surgical Operating Unit. This role will collaborate across the Surgical OU Research and Development organization to bring innovation to patients. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and delivering system solutions that address the unmet needs of the physicians and patients we serve and are aligned with our business’ product roadmaps and technology initiatives.

The successful candidate will be accountable for:

• Defining, integrating, and validating systems’ solutions to meet the ever-evolving needs of our patients, physician partners, and our business.
• Systems designing control deliverables and exerting significant influence over the design solution
• Leading a cross functional team to perform needs analysis, use case analyses, functional analyses, requirements development, and system and subsystem architecture documentation
• Coordinating and leading trade-off studies, prototype evaluations, and clinical acceptability studies
• Actively participating in regular R&D project team meetings for the development of new complex surgical systems
• Leading a group of systems engineers in the development and timely delivery of systems design control deliverables
• Contributing to planning and execution of pre-clinical laboratory studies to evaluate the acceptability of product prototypes
• Appling Systems Engineering principles and best practices to new product development
• Actively contributing to risk management including hazard analysis, usability risk analysis, and risk mitigation
• Communicating progress and roadblocks to project management organization and technical leadership
• Directing the day-to-day activities of, and mentorship to junior systems engineers
• Providing post commercialization product support including root cause investigation and resolution activities

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering required
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
• Mastery of Systems Engineering principles and practices
• Track record of working independently and setting priorities to implement strategic goals
• Demonstrated expertise in new product development of complex, software controlled electromechanical systems
• Robust ability to effectively communicate complicated information with internal, external, and non-technical audiences
• Excellent understanding of design controls and good documentation practices
• Advanced knowledge of standards including IEC 60601, ISO 14971, ISO 13485 and 62366
• Fluency in English
• Willingness to be on-site (minimum 2 days/week in London office)

Nice to Haves

• Advanced degree in Biomedical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering
• Experience with medical robotics and endoscopic video
• History of negotiating with internal and external groups to reach common understanding and achieve shared goals
• Demonstrated ability to strongly influence the design of new products and direct team activities without direct authority
• Advanced knowledge of requirements management, risk management, and system architecture development
• Proficiency in hardware, software, and electrical engineering practices and product development
• Practical experience utilizing Model Based Systems Engineering in product development
• Proven track record of developing complex products in a highly regulated environment
• Experience working with multiple teams on concurrent, interdependent projects
• Experience with cloud based storage of video streams
• Solid understanding of structured product development (requirements-driven engineering, documentation, rigorous verification, etc.)

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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
About Medtronic
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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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• Defining, integrating, and validating systems’ solutions to meet the ever-evolving needs of our patients, physician partners, and our business.
• Systems designing control deliverables and exerting significant influence over the design solution
• Leading a cross functional team to perform needs analysis, use case analyses, functional analyses, requirements development, and system and subsystem architecture documentation
• Coordinating and leading trade-off studies, prototype evaluations, and clinical acceptability studies
• Actively participating in regular R&D project team meetings for the development of new complex surgical systems
• Leading a group of systems engineers in the development and timely delivery of systems design control deliverables
• Contributing to planning and execution of pre-clinical laboratory studies to evaluate the acceptability of product prototypes
• Appling Systems Engineering principles and best practices to new product development
• Actively contributing to risk management including hazard analysis, usability risk analysis, and risk mitigation
• Communicating progress and roadblocks to project management organization and technical leadership
• Directing the day-to-day activities of, and mentorship to junior systems engineers
• Providing post commercialization product support including root cause investigation and resolution activitie