Senior R&D Engineer - Cardiovascular Surgery

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 Life

Senior 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.

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