Senior Systems Engineer – Surgical Navigation

Medtronic

Lead imaging system solutions development as a Sr Systems Engineer at Medtronic, ensuring clinical use needs are met. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize image quality performance.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeBoxborough • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,400 - $165,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

LinuxRay

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will work and lead within a cross-functional team to design, develop, test, and document innovative imaging system solutions utilizing software and hardware components.
You will lead the characterization and optimization of image quality performance at the system level, considering the interaction of imaging hardware, software, reconstruction, and image processing pipelines.
You will collaborate across marketing, quality, software, hardware, and test teams to ensure the imaging chain meets product requirements and clinical use needs.
You will lead the definition and development of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architecture.
You will lead the engineering analysis to optimize and select system-level concepts to ensure the final solution fulfills needs, requirements, use cases, environments, and the overall system vision.
You will lead the planning and execution of user evaluations in lab-based surgical environments or other formative evaluation events to gain insightful feedback on system concepts.
You will lead the team in identifying and mitigating technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes.
You will troubleshoot system component integration and support surgical procedure integration of the design.
You will provide technical leadership along with computer-assisted, robotic-assisted, and clinical procedure subject matter expertise to internal and cross-business development teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree required with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR advance degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
Experience in the medical device industry and/or surgical techniques
Experience with X-ray imaging systems, including system performance characterization and image quality optimization
Experience analyzing end-to-end imaging pipelines, including detector behavior, acquisition, calibration, reconstruction, image processing, and display
Experience troubleshooting image quality artifacts and performance limitations in imaging systems
Ability to apply AI tools effectively while exercising sound engineering judgment, technical accuracy, and appropriate review of outputs
Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, and system design
Experience planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams
Experience with software design, algorithm design, GUI design, and iterative software development practices
Familiarity and experience working with Matlab, Linux, C++, or scripting languages
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
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)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

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Hard Skills & Tools

image quality optimizationsystem performance characterizationend-to-end imaging pipelinestroubleshooting image quality artifactssystems engineeringrequirements definitionsoftware designalgorithm designGUI designiterative software development

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationrisk mitigationanalytical skillscommunicationproblem-solvinguser evaluation planningdata analysisdocumentationpresentation skills