Reliability Engineer I - Hardware / Electrical

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 9 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 Life

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’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite 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 is an entry-level engineering role on the Affera Hardware Product Quality team. The team is responsible for full life-cycle support of the Capital equipment and accessories of the Affera system, including design qualification (DV and DVal), risk management, design change assessment, supplier change support, and risk response for commercial product. This role will support execution of deliverables across several simultaneous change efforts to maintain patient safety, compliance, and reliability.

Electrical, Electronics, or Computer engineering backgrounds are preferred.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.

• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.

• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes.

• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.

• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.

• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.

• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.

• As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.

• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 0 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Electrical, Electronics, or Computer engineering backgrounds are preferred

• Medical Device Experience

• Knowledge of design qualification (DV and DVal)

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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