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About Medtronic
Medtronic plc is the world's largest medical technology company by revenue, specializing in device-based therapies for over 70 health conditions.
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Systems Engineering Director - CRM leads a specialized team within the Electrophysiology Technologies business unit to advance innovative solutions for cardiac rhythm disorders. This leadership role involves managing a team of ten to twenty engineers while shaping product-platform strategy, maturing system architecture, and accelerating the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices. The daily responsibilities include overseeing functional strategy across early concept generation, systems architecture, and AI fluency while ensuring cross-program consistency in firmware, software interfaces, and data requirements. Key technical focuses include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), digital engineering workflows, and knowledge management to ensure scalable, high-quality designs for medical devices. The role addresses the challenge of balancing immediate program execution with long-range platform thinking to support future product applicability within a highly regulated healthcare environment, ensuring that innovations are designed for reuse and seamless integration across various cardiac therapies.
Lead a team of 10 to 20 engineers and managers to achieve systems engineering objectives and organizational maturity.
Develop and mentor a talent pipeline through risk-informed feedback to improve execution quality and reduce technical uncertainty.
Align Systems priorities with business goals, product roadmaps, and patient needs by influencing R&D and program leaders.
Define and manage the roadmap for "Balanced Innovation" to ensure designs are scalable and suitable for future platform extensions.
Drive cross-program consistency for user interfaces, firmware/software interfaces, and other critical architecture patterns.
Integrate AI-enabled engineering practices into workflows to improve speed, quality, and decision support in systems development.
Promote Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) as a primary framework for requirements, design, testing, and knowledge management.
Establish mechanisms for capturing intellectual property, technical rationale, and reusable patterns across the organization.
What we're looking for
A Bachelor's degree is required, or an advanced degree with at least 8 years of systems engineering experience in a regulated industry.
At least 10 years of systems engineering experience in the medical device or another highly regulated industry is required for those with a Bachelor's degree.
At least 7 years of managerial experience is required.
In-depth knowledge of medical device product development, quality expectations, and compliance considerations (preferred).
Experience across the full Systems Engineering lifecycle from concept through validation, launch, and post-market learning (preferred).
Experience as a systems architect, lead systems engineer, chief engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role (preferred).
Experience with CRM/CAS products, cardiac rhythm/EP technology domains, or related clinical applications (preferred).
Work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Mechanical Engineering
MATLAB
ANSYS
Monte Carlo Methods
Design Controls
Risk Management
Reliability Engineering
New Product Development (NPD)
Statistical Analysis
Modeling
Simulation
Engineering Analysis
Data Analysis