Electrical Engineer

Principal Electrical Engineer (12 month contract // Mounds View, MN):

Top 3 Skills Required:

1. Experience with Electrical design, debug, troubleshooting, characterization, verification/validation, and final PCB design
2. Experience with design for and verification of IEC 60601 Compliance
3. Test automation (LabVIEW) and software validation

Primary Responsibilities:

• Project 1:
• Act as primary lead while working cross-functionally with Systems/Reliability functions for the design and build of external cardiac therapy devices for IDE studies
• This is essentially a housing that allows clinicians to interact with and program implantable ICDs/ICMs
• The team will be building 10-15 of the devices in total
• Characterization of design and circuitry (including planning and execution)
• Development / execution of Verification and Validation testing for product and hardware requirements
• Project 2: Support some bench testing (i.e. current drain testing) for an existing diagnostic device
• This will likely result in the need for updates to Production Testing SOPs, execution of change impact assessments, and final change management to ensure everything remains compliant

Education: Bachelor’s Degree is required, but advanced degree would be preferred

Required Experience:

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 10-15 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

Must Have:

• A Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering is required
• Conducted Design Verification Testing (DVT)
• One or more years’ experience in medical device product development or equivalent is required
• Knowledge of IEC 60601 standards
• Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals and proven hands-on electronic/mechanical skills
• 4-8 years’ demonstrated experience and expertise with product testing, test equipment, analysis methodologies and test documentation preferred
• Design and verification of medical electrical equipment
• Development of user needs and design input requirements
• Experience in testing electro-mechanical systems and familiarity with standard test equipment
• 2-4 years’ experience in designing test fixtures

Nice To Have:

• Experience with Protection Circuity
• Analysis of schematics and PCB design
• Experience with LabVIEW preferred