Careers That Change Lives 

As a Neurovascular Sr. Design Quality Engineer, you will have responsibility for directly contributing to the design of life-saving Neurovascular devices.

You will integrate into every aspect of new product development, processes, and planning to deliver world-class and high-quality treatments. Problems and issues faced are difficult, complex, often undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation. Critical thinking and curiosity are vital to finding timely solutions to ensure optimal performance and safety.

As a voice of the patient, Design Quality Engineers at Medtronic go well beyond the basic requirements of meeting internal and external requirements; they heavily incorporate into the design team and personally contribute to the technical design and performance.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident – we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions. 

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Neurovascular OU:

The Neurovascular Operating Unit provides a comprehensive portfolio of proven, powerful neurovascular technologies, setting the highest standards of integrity and reliability in Acute Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke Care.

Location: Irvine, CA

Ability to travel up to: <25% (domestic and international)

A Day in the Life 

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

• Direct contribution and hands-on collaboration with R&D and Process Development to influence and contribute to the design of cutting-edge medical devices.
• Flexes with other Quality Engineers to provide targeted support depending on project phase.
• Mentor other engineers and be mentored.
• Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Apply Design for Manufacturability and Reliability principles.
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Identifies and manages risk throughout the product lifecycle with the application of risk management tools.
• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer, and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• May serve is Core Reliability and Quality Engineer for R&D Programs
• Oversees Validation & Verification activities.