# Principal Systems Engineer (CAS)
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on 13 Nov 2026.
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.
A Day in the Life
The Cardiac Ablation Solutions business develops cardiac mapping and ablation technologies used to treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms. The Principal Systems Engineer will serve as a recognized technical leader, connecting customer and clinical needs with disciplined systems engineering across capital equipment, software, disposables, catheters, sheaths, accessories, and their interfaces.
This role operates across the full product lifecycle, from early concept and architecture through design transfer, commercialization, post-market support, and product evolution. The engineer will influence cross-functional decisions, resolve ambiguous system-level challenges, mentor technical teams, and strengthen systems engineering practices across CAS.
We are working onsite 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. This position will be located in Mounds View, MN.
Responsibilities
•System leadership. Lead systems engineering activities for complex, multidisciplinary medical-device programs and significant product changes.
•Customer and clinical needs. Partner with Marketing, Clinical, Human Factors, Medical Safety, and field-facing teams to translate stakeholder needs, use cases, and use environments into clear system-level design inputs.
•Architecture and interfaces. Define, evaluate, and maintain system architecture, functional decomposition, interfaces, operating modes, performance budgets, and key design trade-offs across hardware, software, firmware, disposables, and accessories.
•Requirements and traceability. Lead development, review, allocation, and lifecycle management of stakeholder, system, subsystem, interface, and performance requirements, ensuring clarity, testability, consistency, and end-to-end traceability.
•Risk management. Integrate product safety, usability, reliability, cybersecurity, and software risk considerations into system design; ensure risk controls are appropriately implemented, traced, and verified.
•Verification and validation. Establish system verification and validation strategies, including methods, acceptance criteria, test architecture, evidence plans, and resolution of system-level anomalies.
•Technical reviews. Plan and lead architecture reviews, requirements reviews, design reviews, trade studies, and technical decision forums. Communicate conclusions, residual risks, and recommendations to project and functional leadership.
•Problem solving. Lead cross-functional root-cause investigations and system-level troubleshooting for complex design, integration, field, manufacturing, supplier, and product-performance issues.
•Lifecycle stewardship. Support design changes, component obsolescence, CAPA and corrective actions, regulatory commitments, supplier changes, product enhancements, and continuity-of-supply initiatives.
•Technical influence. Serve as a technical authority who influences without direct authority, aligns global teams, and helps programs make balanced decisions across patient safety, quality, performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and serviceability.
•Capability building. Mentor systems engineers and partner disciplines; create reusable methods, templates, models, and lessons learned that improve predictability and technical excellence.
•External collaboration. Engage suppliers, consultants, laboratories, clinicians, and other external partners when specialized capabilities or system evidence are required.
Key Deliverables
•Stakeholder and system requirements, interface requirements, and traceability evidence
•System context, architecture, functional decomposition, use scenarios, and interface definitions
•Technical trade studies, engineering analyses, performance budgets, and decision records
•System risk contributions, risk-control traceability, and benefit-risk inputs
•System verification and validation strategies, plans, protocols, reports, and anomaly dispositions
•Formal design review content and objective evidence supporting phase or business decisions
•Technical assessments supporting regulatory submissions, audits, CAPA, field actions, and product changes
•Post-market system performance assessments and prioritized improvement recommendations
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
•Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related degree program required.
•Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.
Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)
•Experience in the medical-device or other highly regulated industry and familiarity with design controls and product lifecycle processes.
•Experience with cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac mapping, ablation energy delivery, therapeutic catheters, sheaths, generators, navigation or visualization systems, or related accessories.
•Working knowledge of medical-device risk management, usability engineering, software lifecycle, electrical medical equipment, cybersecurity, and quality-system expectations.
•Experience with requirements and application-lifecycle tools such as Polarion, Jama Connect, IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS, or equivalent.
•Experience with model-based systems engineering, SysML, architecture frameworks, simulation, or system modeling tools.
•Practical experience with Design for Reliability and Manufacturability, statistical methods, test method development, root-cause analysis, and structured problem solving.
•Experience supporting regulatory submissions, notified-body or agency interactions, audits, CAPA, complaint investigations, or field corrective actions.
•Demonstrated mentoring, coaching, and technical-community leadership across global or distributed teams.
Physical Job Requirements
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan (Medtronic Incentive Plan, MIP), which provides the opportunity to earn significant incentive compensation for achieving or exceeding goals.
Salary range for U.S. (excl. Puerto Rico) locations: $134,400.00 - $201,600.00. Pay range for Ireland: 81,120.00 EUR - 121,680.00 EUR. The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills, and qualifications.
Benefits for regular employees working 20+ hours per week include: 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).
Benefits 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).
