Sr Systems Engineering Manager

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 8 Oct 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

An opportunity to lead a team of talented systems engineers in the definition, integration, and validation of solutions that solve the unmet needs of surgical teams world-wide and ultimately improve surgical outcomes.

Change begins with you.

We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that's what drives innovation.

Come drive the future of healthcare with us.

The Medtronic Surgical Operating Unit brings together a highly engaging cross-functional and collaborative approach to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions that address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.

The candidate will be responsible for leading a team of Systems Engineers in the definition, development, and support of complex medical device systems used in a variety of surgical procedures.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Systems Engineering and will help with strategy, vision, development, and execution of the Systems Engineering team.

Functional Excellence:

• Lead cross-functional teams to make appropriate, timely decisions and recommendations that result in the successful completion of major organizational objectives.

• Drive functional strategy to advance Systems Engineering through process, functional best practices, and organizational changes.

• Ability to work independently with limited supervision, engaging in many different product areas.

Talent Development:

• Provide direct management and mentorship for the System Engineering team.

• Develop System Engineers to be effective leaders, including how to best approach technical issues, soft skills, etc.

• Provide targeted opportunities to develop and stretch team member’s knowledge and capabilities.

• Recruit individuals whose skills will enable Systems Engineering to achieve organizational objectives.

Program Execution:

• Communicate across Business Units and with functional partners to plan, evaluate, and develop technical solutions.

• Lead multiple system engineering activities in the product development life cycle including identification, planning, monitoring and executing tasks for entire project.

• Understanding of medical product development and medical device requirements and regulations and standards and provide a voice of authority in ambiguous terrain

Strategic Planning:

• Understand the R&D future portfolio and align system engineering talent to achieve goals.

• Advocates for new systems model-based tools, processes, and practices, and otherwise ways of doing product development that make work more efficient and effective.

An “outside the box” thinker.

• Identify long-term opportunities that will continue to advance the systems engineering function over a 3-5 year time horizon.

Travel Requirements:

• Travel as needed, approximately 20%.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline

• 7+ years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience

Nice to Have:

• Demonstrated excellence in Systems Engineering

• Systems engineering experience across the product lifecycle

• Extensive knowledge of global regulatory expectations, design controls, and quality management systems

• Detailed understanding of patient safety risk management

• Experience in integrating and delivering complex medical device systems

• A person that is versatile, technically savvy, curious, a broad systems thinker, and willing to work in a space with a lot of

ambiguity.

• Good at communicating complex technical opportunities and challenges to upper management in a concise but thorough fashion.

• Experience defining, integrating, and validating artificial intelligence, cloud based applications, and multi-function devices within a regulated environment

• Advanced degree in Systems, Electrical, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering

• Experience working in a medical, aerospace, defense, or other relevant regulated industry.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM: Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area.

Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports.

The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports.

Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports.

A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people.

which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Manages large team which would typically consist of both experienced professionals and managers.

Turns the department strategy into a commercial reality by developing, communicating and implementing business plans to achieve business results .

Receives assignments in objective oriented terms; has latitude to reinterpret objectives.

Organizational Impact: Initiates programs or projects based on identified business and / or tactical needs.

Decisions impact projects or operations, affect the deadlines, resources, and funds, and the achievement of organizational objectives.

Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, function or geography.

Innovation and Complexity: Develops new objectives, new operating policies, products, processes and standards in support of the job function strategy.

Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Communication and Influence: Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors concerning ongoing operations, programs or processes.

Influences across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties .

May interact on issues that have externally divergent objectives.

Leadership and Talent Management: Manages at least one (department, function, geography typically comprised of other People or Program managers and / or supervisors and experienced professionals.

Recommends strategies, goals and plans for a group.

Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in one department.

Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.

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):$168,800 - $253,200The 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, andSimple 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), andCapital 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:

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 .

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 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.

Required Skill Profession

Engineers