Sr R/D Engineer

Careers that Change Lives
 
Impact patient outcomes. Come for a job, stay for a career.
As a Senior R&D Engineer, Biologics, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to lead new product development; developing and designing implants, instruments, and systems; conducting product and use testing; and managing system interfaces. You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into product requirements, design specifications, and physical prototypes.  You will work under general direction and may serve as key functional core team member or as an engineer on an extended team.  The product focus will be on BIOLOGIC BONE GRAFTS and their interactions with spinal implants and instrumentation to treat degenerative, deformity, and tumor/trauma conditions. 
A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.  We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.
A Day in the Life
 

• Provides technical support to launched products and supports on-going post-market change control activities in compliance with Medtronic work instructions.
• Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as advances in the medical and technical/scientific community
• Contributes and builds domain knowledge around biologics, bone grafts, and/or spinal systems, their clinical use and application via customer and field visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature searches and training
• Plans and implements all aspects of design and development of new medical device products or biologics from initial design to market release in accordance with agreed project timelines
• Translates customer needs into stakeholder and system requirements
• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions
• Provides training, and mentorship to less experienced team members
• Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results
• Organizes coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery
• Identifies, interprets, and applies standards to ensure products meet or exceed regional performance requirements in support of global product registrations.
• Investigates and evaluates existing technologies
• Optimizes designs by designing and conducting relevant tests, experiments, and evaluations, including numerical verification and/or animal testing.
• Ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are applicable.  Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work
• Defines medium to high complexity spinal systems and conceptualizes designs that meet the needs and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business
• Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and mitigation of risk of system designs.  This includes understanding system interfaces, use cases and conditions, investigating and resolving system and design issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, and leading testing activities.
• Defines and performs verification and validation activities ensuring products meet user needs, system requirements, and intended use
• Supports documentation throughout all phases of research and development
• Engages with customers to understand and prioritize their needs and apply feedback to improve designs