Senior R&D Engineer - Cardiovascular Surgery
Medtronic · Santa Ana, California, United States
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 Nov 2026
Careers that change lives start here. 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.
A Day in the LifeSenior R&D Engineer
Careers That Change Lives
At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
Medtronic’s Cardiovascular Surgery R&D group is looking for a motivated engineer to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of medical devices. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to maintain the design integrity of commercially available products. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions.
This position requires strong technical and leadership skills to support commercial product continuity and our global supply of products designed to treat diseases of the vascular system. The Sr. R&D Engineer will apply advanced engineering principles, theories, and concepts in working on complex technical problems and will provide technical leadership on post market objectives.
This position is in Santa Ana, CA. within the Cardiac Surgery (CS) Operating Unit. At 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 on-site 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.
We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.
A Day in the Life
In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior R&D Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Maintain product design integrity of commercially available products using sound engineering principles while working within appropriate Design Control requirements.
- Apply problem solving skills, critical thinking, technical principles, and theories to solve complex problems in the field of aortic disease treatment.
- Investigating product design and reliability issues in partnership with other R&D Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers, and other cross-functional departments to determine root cause and implement solutions.
- Review and approve change orders of post-market products ensuring design integrity and reliability targets are met.
- Review and approve design and process qualifications.
- Review and approve verification and validation documentation.
- Oversee process development objectives of internal and external manufacturing partners.
- Develop technical solutions and conduct testing, evaluate results using appropriate statistical analysis tools, and generate test reports.
- Work collaboratively with external suppliers and business partners as well as internal cross-functional team members to maintain post market product quality.
- Provide technical input supporting submissions to regulatory bodies and governmental agencies
Qualifications
Must Have - Minimum Requirements
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME
· Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and a minimum of 4 years of technical work experience OR a Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years technical work experience
Nice to Have
- High level proficiency of technical principles, theories, and design concepts in the field of medical device design
- Experience with failure analysis and statistical techniques
- Nitinol material and stent processing experience a plus.
- Experience with textile and suture development and testing a plus.
- Experience in design verification and validation.
- Experience with design and process qualification.
- Demonstrated ability to lead others from a technical perspective while building a collaborative work environment.
About Medtronic
Together, 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.
Physical Job Requirements
PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS - 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. (ADA-United States of America)
For 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.
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.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At 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.
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