Principal Electrical Engineer

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Jul 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 LifeAt 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’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. The Principal Electrical Engineer in Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) serves as a recognized technical authority responsible for the architecture, design, verification, and lifecycle support of complex electrical systems used in cardiac mapping and ablation therapies. This role plays a critical leadership function across sustaining engineering, and technology innovation, with a strong emphasis on patient safety, reliability, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation in life-sustaining medical devices. The principal engineer operates with a high degree of autonomy, providing technical direction across multiple programs, mentoring other engineers, and influencing cross-functional decisions spanning systems engineering, firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory teams. Primary Responsibilities 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. Required Qualifications 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 Preferred Qualifications 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. 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. 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PR) locations (USD):$134,400.00 - $201,600.00 This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others). The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours pe