Pre-Market Software Reliability Engineering Manager - CRM

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 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 LifePre-Market Software Reliability Engineering Manager Careers that Change Lives In this exciting role as a Pre-market Software Reliability Engineering Manager, you will have responsibility for ensuring our products exceed the safety and reliability requirements and expectations of patients, clinicians, regulators, and the business. This position provides software reliability engineering leadership for R&D. The candidate will be a key leader and player in cross-functional teams and serve as a focal point and technical representative for reliability, safety, and quality functions. As part of R&D project teams, the Pre-market Software Reliability Engineering Manager will lead a team of pre-market software reliability, safety, and supplier quality engineers, this team will work with multidisciplinary teams and provide leadership for Design for Reliability (DfR), guidance to technical issues, engagement in design and risk reviews, and contribute to development activities. The Cardiac and Vascular Group brings all our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. CARDIAC RHYTHM AND HEART FAILURE offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions. This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit. At 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 are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. A Day in Life: The Functional Manager is accountable for the quarterly objectives and overall engagement of the organization. This includes responsibility for building and maintaining a team that consistently delivers embedded software functional excellence. The Functional Manager is ultimately accountable for their team’s performance and execution. In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Pre-Market Software Reliability Engineering Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to the following: Management of direct reports and several dotted-line reports. Management duties include budget management, resource management and project management. Push change in an opportunity rich environment. Take risks and lead with bold enthusiasm to ensure we are perpetually evolving Manage annual expense budget and help develop annual operating budget. Recruit, hire, and onboard new team resources. Coach and mentor staff resources. Manage team individual’s performance and development plans. Define team and organizational initiatives to improve team capabilities or efficiencies. Lead or delegate these initiatives. Work cross-functionally with project teams to plan R&D project budgets and staff those teams. Review team’s deliverables and provide management review of QMS deliverables #CRMSoftware #CRMR&D Qualifications- MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and minimum of 7 years of technical work experience OR advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math, with 5 years of technical experience and 5 years of demonstrated managerial experience Nice to Have Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), Certified Software Quality Engineers (CSQE) or equivalent certification Experience in software fault tolerant design, fault prevention techniques, design for testability methods, software FMEA and FTA Experience with Software Reliability Engineering models including reliability growth models Experience in the design, maintenance, or continuation engineering of released software or software systems, including mobile applications and cloud-based services Experience with automated and/or manual software tests and DevOps processes Experience with Agile or behavior-based development Experience in medical devices or other regulated industry Experience working with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971 standards Knowledge of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Design for Lean Sigma (DFLS), Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM), or other robust design practices Proficient in spreadsheets and project management tools Demonstrated success in project management, with exceptional influence management skills 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) 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