Senior Design Automation Engineer - CRM
About The Position
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. The Cardiac Rhythm Management group (CRM) brings our cardiac businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. Cardiac Rhythm Management offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions. Within CRM R&D, we are seeking a highly skilled High Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer to design, implement, and operate advanced compute environments that support complex computation, simulation, AI/ML workloads, product development, and performance engineering activities. This role combines deep Linux systems expertise, HPC infrastructure engineering, and operational excellence to ensure highly available, scalable, and high-performance compute environments. You will serve as a senior technical contributor and lab/infrastructure expert, partnering closely with engineering, data science, and platform teams to accelerate innovation. This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working on-site 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. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. In general, the Senior Design Automation Engineer will work across a mix of infrastructure engineering, system operations, and user enablement. A typical day may include: Deploying and maintaining systems – Perform OS deployments, application upgrades, and manage HPC software stacks across compute, storage, and networking environments Supporting users and workflows – Field user requests, troubleshoot issues, and optimize workflows to improve performance and usability Collaborating across teams – Work closely with IT, Security, Sourcing, Numerical Modeling, AI, IC Design, and other engineering teams to align infrastructure with business needs Driving continuous improvement – Identify opportunities for automation, performance tuning, and process improvements to enhance HPC environment efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and minimum of 4 years of work experience in science, technology, engineering, math OR advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math, with 2 years of technical experience
Nice To Haves
- Networking experience including proficiency with high-speed interconnects and protocols like RDMA, knowledge of network protocols, and experience with network hardware
- Hands-on experience with HPC cluster management, job schedulers, and parallel file systems
- Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Singularity, Apptainer, PodMan)
- Experience with GPU computing and accelerators
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. mySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server)
- Self-starter with ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment
- Demonstrated presentation, documentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
- Deploying and maintaining systems – Perform OS deployments, application upgrades, and manage HPC software stacks across compute, storage, and networking environments
- Supporting users and workflows – Field user requests, troubleshoot issues, and optimize workflows to improve performance and usability
- Collaborating across teams – Work closely with IT, Security, Sourcing, Numerical Modeling, AI, IC Design, and other engineering teams to align infrastructure with business needs
- Driving continuous improvement – Identify opportunities for automation, performance tuning, and process improvements to enhance HPC environment efficiency
Benefits
- 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
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- 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)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
