Sr Systems Sustaining Engineer

$104,800 - $157,200/Yr

Medtronic - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Los Angeles, CA

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

As a Senior Systems Sustaining Engineer for Diabetes at Medtronic, you will be part of the Sustaining team within the Systems group. Your primary focus will be on supporting design input changes for released products across the Diabetes organization, ensuring compliance with design controls and good engineering practices. You will collaborate with various functions to address stakeholder concerns and maintain the highest quality and safety standards for our products.

Responsibilities

• Update design changes on existing Diabetes products through process and regulatory changes to maintain product safety and quality
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, objectives, and timelines
• Support and collaborate with applicable stakeholders across the Diabetes organization
• Evaluate field returns and perform root cause analysis to assess patient/user risk associated with the post-market life-cycle phase
• Assess applicable System and product requirements for updates to released products
• Participate in meeting departmental goals and objectives
• Design, develop, analyze, troubleshoot, and provide technical skills for new product development
• May be involved in triaging, troubleshooting, and supporting Field Corrective Actions and CAPAs
• Drive collaborative design and development of medical devices, mobile apps, insulin pumps, and glucose sensors
• Drive collaborative design and development of features in apps connected to cloud data systems with machine learning
• Perform technical analysis such as functional analysis, timeline analysis, and trade studies
• Develop system concepts, capture user needs, and create use cases or user stories
• Develop and manage multiple levels of requirements
• Develop and document interface designs and protocols
• Define, plan, and conduct formal technical design and test reviews
• Guide, develop, and review verification strategies, test designs, test tools, planned execution, and documentation
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, evaluate alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or another technical field of study with 4+ years of experience in engineering
• OR an advanced degree in engineering or another technical field of study with 2+ years of experience in engineering

Nice-to-haves

• Experience capturing architectures, system designs, or product definitions
• Experience writing technical documentation
• Requirements Management Tools such as DOORS or PTC Integrity
• Experience in technical design techniques such as use cases, functional analysis, timeline analysis, and sequence diagrams
• Experience in mobile app or web-based systems design, development, verification, and documentation
• Experience with mobile apps deployment and post-launch maintenance
• Experience working with communications protocol design, definition and documentation
• Experience working in a regulated industry such as medical device, defense, or automotive
• Experience with medical device design, development, and manufacturing
• Familiarity with design, development, and sustaining requirements of medical devices
• Knowledge of medical device regulations and various technical standards
• Understanding of common manufacturing processes (i.e. Injection Molding, Metal Forming, Machining, Heat Treating etc.)
• Knowledgeable in engineering change control processes and product life cycles
• Trained/Certified in Lean and/or 6 Sigma and statistical analysis tools
• Ability to compile and analyze technical data using Minitab, Excel, R, and/or Matlab
• Proficiency with 3D modeling software such as Creo, SolidWorks, AutoCad, and Windchill PLM
• Proven problem-solving abilities
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills
• Hands-on mentality

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible Benefits Package
• Short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)