Job title: Sr Systems Engineer
Company: Medtronic
Job description: Careers that Change Lives
Medtronic is the world’s leading medical technology company, offering innovative therapies to fulfill our Mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life. Medtronic’s Renal Care Solutions (RCS) group has established an R&D center in Bangalore, and is hiring talented candidates to work on exciting opportunities.
Medtronic India Development Center (MIDC) is the 100-person R&D center for RCS in Bangalore, and we are looking to hire talented candidates to work on exciting opportunities. More info at:
A Day in the Life
One of the key deliverables of MIDC is an electromechanical product that will be used in a clinical setting. We are looking for a Lead systems engineer who will work on capturing system requirements, concept design, system modelling, risk analaysis, system. Given the entrepreneurial nature of MIDC, this person will have to perform hands-on work in the mechanical/systems lab.
- Work with customer-facing team members (human factors and voice-of-customer specialists) to understand user needs and convert them into high-level product specifications. Develop detailed technical requirements, and ensure accurate flow-down to sub-system requirements, design implementation.
- Discuss with system verification engineers to ensure that the system requirements are adequate and verfiable
- Coordinate the team effort of interdisciplinary engineers (electronics, mechanical, firmware, and chemical) for design of the product. Review the design analysis results (thermal, vibration, CFD etc) and provide technical expertise for technical tradeoff decision making.
- Define the use condition and use cases to develop the system features. Define the logics and provide inputs to the software team for implementing the use cases.
- Build system simulation models to predict fluid circuit behavior and provide required inputs to the matlab Simulink modelling of the system.
- Perform risk assessment for the product and develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Identify applicable regulatory and industry standards and ensure product can satisfy requirements of these standards.
- Work with operations and supply chain to ensure manufacturability of the product and identify contract manufacturers who can build the product. Participate in design transfer activities.
- Work with quality/reliability engineering to identify and minimize sources of technical and practical risk, and ensure the product meets medical device-related safety standards.
- Work with clinical and regulatory groups to ensure the product is approved for commercial use
- Review the design inputs and outputs to ensure quality
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- 8-12 years of experience in medical or aerospace domain with B.E. or B.Tech. in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering from a reputed university.
- Experience with electromechanical design and optimization of fluid circuits including fluid mechanics, pumps, valves, heaters, sensors, fluidic connectors and tubing, together with a working knowledge of the supply base for fluidic components.
- Handson experience in Requirements management and risk management
- Understanding of electronics concepts (microcontrollers, power supplies, programmable logic)
- Experience in requirement management, risk management(FMEA, PHA)
- Knowledge of medical device quality and regulatory standards (ISO 13485, ISO 14791, IEC 60601, IEC 62304, etc.)
- Ability to independatly lead project / coach team memebers
- Good verbal/written communication skills. Ability to produce good quality documentation.
- Ability to work in a global environment and interact with various internal and external stake holders.
- Expertise with Microsoft Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Desired / Preffered Qualifications
- 5+ years’ experience in the healthcare domain, with knowledge of medical device-related standards such as ISO 13485, US FDA’s 21 CFR 820, IEC 60601, IEC 60068 and ISO 10993
- Understanding of biomedical concepts (human anatomy, disease, diagnostics, therapies)
- Working knowledge of dialysis therapy
- Basic understanding of biomedical concepts (human anatomy, disease, diagnostics, therapies)
- Basic understanding of chemistry concepts (working knowledge of water purification technologies, including filtration, reverse osmosis, carbon beds, and ion exchange processes)
- Experience in MBSE
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)
Additional Information
- Posting Date: Jun 1, 2022
- Travel: No
Expected salary:
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Job date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 07:48:18 GMT
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