At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Careers That Change Lives

In this exciting role as Principal Hardware Engineer, you will develop, enhance, and maintain custom test systems that monitor and control an implantable medical device embedded system to enable hardware and firmware verification. As part of a research and development organization, you will use hardware and software skills during test system lifecycle phases: architecture, design, implementation, verification, validation, and support. You will learn about medical devices and work with medical device hardware and firmware teams to determine needed testability and to identify and resolve problems.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident – we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.

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Location: Mounds View, MN

A Day in the Life

As a Principal Hardware Engineer in our Embedded Systems Environments team, you will develop or enhance custom test systems, capabilities, and methods that enable the test and verification of an embedded system. A day in the life includes: seeking inputs from embedded system ASIC designers and firmware developers to understand test requirements, test conditions, and new functionality required; using hardware skills to identify off-the-shelf components and design and facilitate the build of custom printed circuit boards and test fixtures; using software skills to control the test system and enable test automation; collaborate with your engineering partners to solve problems and debug issues; develop tests and execute test method validations; and, identify opportunities to increase productivity and effectiveness of the test environment.

Responsibilities include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Design and implement custom test system software - from high level interfaces to subsystem interfaces to controlling test system equipment.
• Design and implement custom test system hardware on printed circuit boards.
• Integrate custom hardware and software with off-the-shelf equipment.
• Define test system requirements by collaborating with medical device embedded system ASIC designers and firmware development teams.
• Create and execute test system verification and validation tests. Document validation actions and results.
• Update test system hardware and software for new medical device functionality.
• Learn about medical device functionality and read medical device hardware and firmware code.
• Influence medical device ASIC hardware designs to enhance testability of device firmware.
• Evaluate firmware verification test failures, identify root-cause, and determine corrective action.
• Be the test system point of contact for new product hardware and firmware teams. Plan test system work to meet product schedules. Create test system releases to support product changes. Help test teams understand test system capabilities.
• Provide guidance to technicians and less experienced engineers.

Must Have (Minimum Requirements)

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with minimum 7 years of experience OR advance degree with minimum of 4 years of experience
• Hardware skills to read schematics and understand digital and analog circuit functionality, debug problems, design and implement changes, and occasionally design and implement new functionality.
• Lab skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators, and other lab equipment.
• C/C++ programming skills to understand existing software, debug problems, design and implement changes, and occasionally design and implement new functionality.
• Knowledge and experience with embedded systems.
• Strong debug and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to achieve common objectives.

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in circuit design and simulation.
• Experience using JTAG to control and test hardware.
• Experience in scripting like Perl, Python, CMake, and Makefiles.
• Familiar with Linux operating system.
• Familiar with telemetry or Bluetooth.
• Experience with FPGA programming.
• Familiar with or interested in learning RTL, hardware emulation, and RTL acceleration.

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements 
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. (ADA-United States of America)

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.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.