Principal Electrical Engineer

Medtronic

Principal Electrical Engineer leading design and verification for cardiac ablation systems at Medtronic. Ensuring patient safety and compliance in life-sustaining medical devices.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeMassachusetts, Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $134,400 - $201,600 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the electrical subject-matter expert for cardiac ablation platforms, including generators, energy delivery systems, sensing and monitoring circuits, and safety-critical subsystems
Define and review electrical architectures, requirements, and design strategies to support RF and pulsed field ablation technologies, ensuring robustness under clinical use conditions
Drive trade-off decisions balancing performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and regulatory constraints
Lead or review detailed electrical design activities including high-voltage circuits, power electronics, sensing and monitoring circuits, isolation schemes, grounding strategies, and EMC-robust designs
Establish and execute verification and validation strategies, ensuring designs meet functional, safety, and reliability requirements across the product lifecycle
Provide expert input into design reviews, hazard analyses, and failure investigations involving electrical subsystems
Own or strongly influence risk management activities related to electrical hazards, energy delivery, insulation, leakage currents, fault detection, and patient return electrode monitoring
Apply Design for Reliability and Design for Safety principles to identify, reduce, and monitor technical risk in compliance with medical device standards and internal quality systems
Act as a design technical leader across released product engineering, manufacturing, supplier engineering, service, and quality teams
Support sustaining engineering activities including root-cause analysis of field issues, design changes, component obsolescence, and manufacturing process improvements
Interface with external suppliers and partners to ensure continuity of supply and technical alignment with system requirements
Mentor and technically develop junior and senior engineers, reinforcing best practices in electrical design, documentation, and problem solving
Influence engineering standards, design guidelines, and strategic technology roadmaps within CAS
Represent electrical engineering expertise in program reviews, technical escalations, and governance forums

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience
Expertise in analog/digital mixed-signal design, safety-critical circuit design, EMC/ESD mitigation
Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions across complex, multidisciplinary systems
A degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required for Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States

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

cardiac ablation platformsRF ablation technologiespulsed field ablation technologieshigh-voltage circuitspower electronicssensing circuitsmonitoring circuitsEMC designDesign for ReliabilityDesign for Safety

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationdecision makingrisk managementdesign reviewroot-cause analysisinfluencing standards

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePhD