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Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.\nA Day in the Life\nCareers That Change LivesThe Cardiac Ablation Solutions business develops cardiac mapping and ablation technologies used to treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms. The Principal Systems Engineer will serve as a recognized technical leader, connecting customer and clinical needs with disciplined systems engineering across capital equipment, software, disposables, catheters, sheaths, accessories, and their interfaces.\nThis role operates across the full product lifecycle, from early concept and architecture through design transfer, commercialization, post-market support, and product evolution. The engineer will influence cross-functional decisions, resolve ambiguous system-level challenges, mentor technical teams, and strengthen systems engineering practices across CAS.\nAt Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working onsite 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects. This position will be located in Mounds View, MN.\nSystem leadership. Lead systems engineering activities for complex, multidisciplinary medical-device programs and significant product changes. \nCustomer and clinical needs. Partner with Marketing, Clinical, Human Factors, Medical Safety, and field-facing teams to translate stakeholder needs, use cases, and use environments into clear system-level design inputs. \nArchitecture and interfaces. Define, evaluate, and maintain system architecture, functional decomposition, interfaces, operating modes, performance budgets, and key design trade-offs across hardware, software, firmware, disposables, and accessories. \nRequirements and traceability. Lead development, review, allocation, and lifecycle management of stakeholder, system, subsystem, interface, and performance requirements, ensuring clarity, testability, consistency, and end-to-end traceability. \nRisk management. Integrate product safety, usability, reliability, cybersecurity, and software risk considerations into system design; ensure risk controls are appropriately implemented, traced, and verified. \nVerification and validation. Establish system verification and validation strategies, including methods, acceptance criteria, test architecture, evidence plans, and resolution of system-level anomalies. \nTechnical reviews. Plan and lead architecture reviews, requirements reviews, design reviews, trade studies, and technical decision forums. Communicate conclusions, residual risks, and recommendations to project and functional leadership. \nProblem solving. Lead cross-functional root-cause investigations and system-level troubleshooting for complex design, integration, field, manufacturing, supplier, and product-performance issues. \nLifecycle stewardship. Support design changes, component obsolescence, CAPA and corrective actions, regulatory commitments, supplier changes, product enhancements, and continuity-of-supply initiatives. \nTechnical influence. Serve as a technical authority who influences without direct authority, aligns global teams, and helps programs make balanced decisions across patient safety, quality, performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and serviceability. \nCapability building. Mentor systems engineers and partner disciplines; create reusable methods, templates, models, and lessons learned that improve predictability and technical excellence. \nExternal collaboration. Engage suppliers, consultants, laboratories, clinicians, and other external partners when specialized capabilities or system evidence are required. \nKey Deliverables\nStakeholder and system requirements, interface requirements, and traceability evidence \nSystem context, architecture, functional decomposition, use scenarios, and interface definitions \nTechnical trade studies, engineering analyses, performance budgets, and decision records \nSystem risk contributions, risk-control traceability, and benefit-risk inputs \nSystem verification and validation strategies, plans, protocols, reports, and anomaly dispositions \nFormal design review content and objective evidence supporting phase or business decisions \nTechnical assessments supporting regulatory submissions, audits, CAPA, field actions, and product changes \nPost-market system performance assessments and prioritized improvement recommendations.\nMust Have: Minimum Requirements- To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.\nBachelors degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related degree program required.\nMinimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.\nNice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)\nExperience in the medical-device or other highly regulated industry and familiarity with design controls and product lifecycle processes. \nExperience with cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac mapping, ablation energy delivery, therapeutic catheters, sheaths, generators, navigation or visualization systems, or related accessories. \nWorking knowledge of medical-device risk management, usability engineering, software lifecycle, electrical medical equipment, cybersecurity, and quality-system expectations. \nExperience with requirements and application-lifecycle tools such as Polarion, Jama Connect, IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS, or equivalent. \nExperience with model-based systems engineering, SysML, architecture frameworks, simulation, or system modeling tools. \nPractical experience with Design for Reliability and Manufacturability, statistical methods, test method development, root-cause analysis, and structured problem solving. \nExperience supporting regulatory submissions, notified-body or agency interactions, audits, CAPA, complaint investigations, or field corrective actions. \nDemonstrated mentoring, coaching, and technical-community leadership across global or distributed teams. \nPhysical Job Requirements:\nThe 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. (ADA-United States of America).\nA 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. Learn more about our benefits here .\nIn addition to Base Salary, this position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan, which provides the opportunity to earn significant incentive compensation for achieving or exceeding your goals. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here .\nThe provided base salary range is used nationally in the United States (except in Puerto Rico and certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.\nAbout Medtronic:\nTogether, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.\nFor Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.\nPhysical Job Requirements\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nU.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship\nAt Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.\nRecruitment Fraud Alert\nWe are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind:\nApply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses.\nMedtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate.\nIf you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.\nIf you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at .\nBenefits & Compensation\nMedtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package\nA 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.\nSalary ranges for U.S (excl. 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