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Principal R&D Engineer - RPE

COV Covidien LP
Full-time
On-site
USA-CT United States of America
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 Dec 2025


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

Principal R&D Engineer - RPE

As part of the Surgical Released Product Engineering (RPE) Team, we drive best-in-class clinical outcomes, customer satisfaction, and business value for all commercialized Surgical products by ensuring consistent quality, supply continuity, and market competitiveness while elevating the technical careers of employees. The Principal R&D Engineer will support R&D RPE activities related to the further development and enhancement of the General Surgical Technologies product portfolio. They will serve as the design owner and technical expert, supporting released product engineering teams by planning, developing, and executing testing and analysis activities during product change implementation. This role focuses on driving improvements in product performance and manufacturability, reducing cost, improving quality, and ensuring supply continuity while maintaining design intent.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

  • Designs, develops, analyzes, troubleshoots, and provides technical support to improve product sustainability.
  • Designs studies to investigate root cause or identify process parameters.
  • Perform hands-on root cause analysis on the manufacturing floor, leveraging direct observation of physical processes and sample evaluations to identify and resolve technical issues related to design.
  • Leads activities to support product sustainability and improvements to existing products.
  • Serve as a technical expert, exercising considerable latitude in determining deliverables with limited oversight.
  • Defines and performs verification and validation activities ensuring products meet user needs and intended use.
  • Investigates and evaluates existing technologies.
  • Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, or processes related to existing product manufacturing.
  • Coordinates activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
  • Writes engineering reports and creates presentations as required to document and communicate results.
  • Collaborate with peers to lead and manage the development of appropriate testing to verify product meets internal and external customer requirements.
  • Mentors and guides junior level engineers, delegating and reviewing work.
  • Work will be performed in R&D laboratories and in manufacturing facilities.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 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.

To be successful in this role:

  • Requires a mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with relevant experience.
  • Ability to work independently as a recognized expert, managing large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager.
  • Ability to set objectives for own job area to meet project goals and assignments including project milestones with some involvement in cross-functional assignments.
  • Leadership skills with the ability to communicate and influence internal teams and external contacts by sharing information, status, needs, and issues to inform, gain input, and support decision-making.
  • Proficiency in Minitab and Microsoft Office – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and MS Teams.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary environment.
  • Takes initiative in keeping current with technology developments in specialized area.
  • Comfortable mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers.
  • Working knowledge of applicable FDA and ISO standards.
  • Recognized expert in engineering practices, product safety, and root cause analysis.
  • General knowledge of structured product development including engineering verification, test development and execution, report writing, and development of presentations.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks/projects with a strong problem-solving ability.
  • Must have a hands-on mentality.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in the medical device industry with disposable surgical tools.
  • Recognized expert in Design for Reliability, Statistical Analysis methods, and Design of Experiments.
  • Participation and study design for pre-clinical in vivo labs, observing cases in hospitals and through customer interactions.
  • Experience with DRM / DFSS, Lean Sigma, or Green/Black Belt certification.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$130,400.00 - $195,600.00

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 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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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