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Principal Clinical Engineer - Neuromodulation Operating Unit

Company Overview: Medtronic is a leader in the field of neuromodulation, continuously innovating groundbreaking therapies and technologies. We are committed to improving patient outcomes and enhancing the quality of life through our advanced medical devices and solutions.

Position Summary: The Principal Clinical Engineer plays a crucial role on a human-centered design team within the Neuromodulation Operating Unit of Medtronic to develop and deploy innovative medical technologies. Specifically, the person is part of the UX/HF Engineering team, a component of the System Solutions team. The primary responsibilities will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading clinical strategy and testing, and ensuring the integration of clinical insights into product development. This person will be instrumental in driving the clinical experience of our products, validating new features, and ensuring their successful deployment and adoption in the clinical field.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:

Partner with upstream marketing, clinical research, research technology, advanced product development, and therapy business leaders to define field challenges and drive respective technological solutions.

Collaborate with internal development teams (engineering, regulatory, human factors, quality, marketing) to align and integrate clinical insights.

Nurture relationships with key opinion leaders, professional societies, neuromodulation community and the field.

Clinically relevant Testing:

Support testing of RD prototypes through realistic scenario definition

Simulate real-world use cases to evaluate prototypes and design outputs against customer requirements from the field environment

Analyze clinical and post-launch product performance data from the field to drive design inputs into development projects.

Burndown clinically-relevant program and technical risk to mature the product through development

Develop and validate clinically-relevant algorithms and product features.

Plan and execute early iterative-learning cycles or validation activities for successful outcomes in later formal validation activities.

Plan and drive iterative assessment of design maturity with HCPs, field reps, and other clinical stakeholders.

Provide input to risk management files and evaluate customer satisfaction and system performance through end-user testing.

Market and Product Development:

Discover unmet needs and review user needs selected for product development

Map user needs to system requirements, design specifications and testing protocols

Drive clinical workflows into journey maps

Define the use cases of the product that focus on the clinical experience as part of the UX team

Contribute to clinical evaluation plans and reports throughout the product lifecycle

Participate in setting goals and objectives for projects

Identify and promote new clinical applications by attending conferences, performing demos, and observing real cases

Perform early assessments of device safety and performance and document clinical risks.

Contribute to and review regulatory submissions in collaboration with the regulatory team.

Business Case and Market Requirements:

Define the business case and market requirements to ensure clinical acceptance of the product.

Align with marketing on the strategic claims plan and establish clinical claims and performance criteria .

Analyze product performance and field issues to derive key performance or clinical requirements.

Clinical Knowledge

Maintain extensive knowledge of clinical and scientific data for our products and the science behind them.

Develop a deep understanding of existing device architectures to effectively represent RD in the field.

Deployment and Training

Execute the deployment of alpha/beta software systems or therapy systems into the clinical environment during early tests or early/limited release of products

Act as the trainer for the sale representatives and field clinical engineers during product launch

Gather issues and work with clinical sites to investigate issues resulting from new product launches.

User Interface and User Experience:

Review all user interface designs to ensure they meet clinical needs and use cases

Provide inputs to the labeling team for manuals, training guides and other documentation

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in biomedical engineering, clinical engineering or a related technical field.

At least 7 years of relevant experience, or 5 years of experience with an advanced degree

Nice to have :

Understanding the design, operation, and maintenance of medical devices, software and systems, especially class III medical devices

Familiarity with healthcare regulations and standards, such as FDA regulations, IEC standards, and ISO standards.

Experience working with or within a user experience team or human-centered design team

Extensive knowledge of clinical and scientific data related to neuromodulation products (e.g., spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation, therapy drug-delivery or other peripheral/central nervous system modulation)

Knowledge of pain or movement disorder market

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to communicate effectively with healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, and technicians

Skills in relevant software tools for design, simulation, and data analysis

Strong communication and leadership skills.

Ability to travel up to 25%.

Previous experience in a healthcare setting or in an engineering role

Proven ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and lead clinical strategy and testing efforts.

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):$124,800.00 - $187,200.00

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).

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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 90,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the RD 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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

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Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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.

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