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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

Medtronic’s Cranial and Spinal Technologies (CST) Operating Unit is committed to transforming patient care through groundbreaking innovations in neurosurgery and spinal procedures. Our comprehensive portfolio includes spinal implants, robotics-assisted surgical solutions like the Mazor™ Robotic Guidance System, StealthStation™ surgical navigation, and biologics for bone healing, all designed to enhance surgical precision, efficiency, and patient outcomes. Beyond technology, we support surgeons through education, training, and clinical research, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to achieve the best possible results. By continuously driving innovation and collaboration, Medtronic is redefining cranial and spinal care, improving lives worldwide.​​  

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident – we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.   

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As a Sr. Systems Engineer, you will develop life-saving medical device products for spine surgery. Key responsibilities include collaborating with a team to design and develop new systems, implants, and instruments; conducting product and use testing; and managing system interfaces between implant and instrument hardware with enabling technologies. You will actively seek out Voice of the Customer (VOC) input and translate that into system, product, and interface requirements and specifications; conceptualize system solutions, and manage interfaces through system integration.  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 spinal systems 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. 

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

• Defines spinal systems and features, inclusive of software and hardware components, that meet the expectations and uses of the customer, regulatory agencies, and the business.  

• Collects and analyzes voice of the customer and voice of the business to identify opportunities for system development and generate prioritized customer needs. 

• Translates customer needs into specific, well-written, high-quality stakeholder and system requirements.  

• Provides technical leadership in the definition, evaluation, and risk analysis of system designs in collaboration with other functional groups.   This includes understanding system interfaces and architecture, defining use cases and conditions, investigating and resolving system issues, making improvements to address customer feedback and requests, performing statistical analysis, and leading system-level testing activities in lab-based cadaveric environments or other formative evaluation settings. 

• Documents tradeoffs, rationales, and potential solutions. 

• Verifies that system requirements have been properly implemented (writing, leveling, tracing) through inspection, demonstration, test or analysis. 

• Leads team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes. 

• Defines and performs system validation activities ensuring the system meets user needs and intended use. 

• Collaborates across R&D roles responsible for development of different system elements and cross-functional partners including marketing, quality, regulatory, and project management. 

• Contributes to and builds domain knowledge around spinal procedures and systems, their clinical use and application, and integration of enabling technologies into spine surgery via customer and field visits, literature searches and training. 

• Ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are applicable.  Follows all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work. 

• Establishes and advocates for best practices and continuous improvement as to mature knowledge and processes 

Location: Lafayette, Colorado 

Ability to travel up to: 10-15% 

Must Have (Minimum Requirements):

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.  This is not a remote position.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technically related field is required with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience  

• OR advance degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience  

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications):

• 4+ years spine, orthopedic, or enabling technology experience. 

• Engineering MS degree preferred. 

• Experience in Systems Engineering discipline or use of system engineering methodologies. 

• Experience in product concept development, requirements management, functional analysis, use case and condition identification, interface definition and control, synthesis, verification and validation, on a cross functional team on complex programs. 

• Experience in voice of customer collection, requirements development, analysis, allocation, review, tracing, and verification/validation. 

• Experience planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods & results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams. 

• Demonstrated systems engineering/analytical/problem solving skills  

• Ability to understand procedures and systems of systems. 

• Experience with mechanical design, drawings, tolerance analysis, and computer-aided design. 

• Experience with statistical analysis. 

• Familiarity with software design, algorithm design, and iterative software development practices. 

• Experience working in cross-functional and collaborative team environments. 

• Experience working in a FDA regulated and/or medical device environment and with ISO and Quality System Regulation requirements. 

• Excellent written and communication skills. 

• Ability of working in a deadline driven environment. 

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):$104,800.00 - $157,200.00

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.