Principal Electrical Engineer

Medtronic

Principal Electrical Engineer in Cardiac Ablation Solutions at Medtronic, managing electrical design for life-sustaining medical devices. Leading technical direction and mentoring teams across multidisciplinary systems.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeMinnesota • Massachusetts, 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.
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

Electrical Architecture DesignHigh-Voltage Circuit DesignPower ElectronicsSensing and Monitoring CircuitsDesign for ReliabilityDesign for SafetyVerification and Validation StrategiesRoot-Cause AnalysisFailure InvestigationTrade-Off Decision Making

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipMentoringProblem SolvingCollaborationCommunication