Sr. Electrical Engineering Manager (CRM)

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 14 Nov 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

# A Day in the Life
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’re working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

The Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) portfolio delivers therapies designed to restore, support, and protect every heartbeat through advanced pacing, defibrillation, and remote monitoring solutions. CRM's unique ability to pair proven life-saving therapies with intelligent technology gives clinicians and patients greater confidence. Clinical impact and innovation come together to improve lives through meaningful patient outcomes.

We push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday. The Cardiac Rhythm Management Electrical System Design team develops electronics, integration approaches, and engineering solutions that enable life-saving implantable and external medical device systems.

As a Senior Electrical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the Electrical System Design functional strategy and translate that direction into actionable plans for your team. Working with R&D leadership, you will anticipate future product needs, identify gaps in expertise and infrastructure, and recommend priorities for capability development and technical investment. You will balance program delivery with the long-term strength of the function, aligning team capabilities and technical priorities with business needs.

You will lead a team of 10–15 engineers, ranging from entry-level engineers to experienced technical leaders and subject matter experts, supporting multiple product platforms and concurrent development programs. The team works across the full product lifecycle, from architecture and requirements definition through circuit and PCB design, firmware and ASIC integration, characterization, verification, manufacturing transfer, and post-market support.

You will be accountable for the team’s technical execution, organizational health, and employee engagement. This includes developing technical talent and leadership capability and partnering with program management and cross-functional leaders to align resources and commitments with business priorities.

This role is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about developing people and delivering complex medical technologies that improve patients’ lives.

This position is located in Mounds View, MN (Twin Cities Metro).

The Electrical System Design team is responsible for delivering high-reliability, safety-critical electrical designs for active implantable cardiac devices and associated external systems. The team works across the full product development lifecycle, including architecture definition, requirements development, circuit and PCB design, firmware and ASIC integration, design characterization, verification, production test development, manufacturing transfer, and post-market support.

The Senior Electrical Engineering Manager contributes to the development of the Electrical System Design functional strategy and translates that direction into actionable plans for the team. Working with R&D leadership, this manager anticipates future product needs, identifies gaps in expertise and infrastructure, and recommends priorities for capability development and technical investment. The manager balances program delivery with the long-term strength of the function and is accountable for the team’s technical execution, organizational health, and employee engagement. This includes developing technical talent and leadership capability and partnering with program management and R&D leaders to align resources and commitments with business priorities.

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

- Defines and advances the electrical engineering functional strategy, including technical capability development, engineering methods and tools, and investments needed to support current and future product portfolios.

- Recruits, develops, coaches, and evaluates team members; establishes clear goals aligned with business and program objectives; and provides ongoing performance feedback, career development, and technical leadership opportunities.
- Builds an inclusive, high-performing team culture grounded in technical excellence, accountability, design rigor, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, while developing the capabilities needed to support current and future programs.
- Owns resource planning, prioritization, and staffing across product development programs, sustaining projects, and functional initiatives, balancing near-term commitments with long-term capability needs and escalating resource gaps and competing priorities.
- Partners with program managers and cross-functional leaders to establish electrical engineering commitments aligned with program cost, scope, and schedule objectives; monitors execution against those commitments; and drives corrective actions and technical risk mitigation as needed.
- Ensures the team delivers robust electrical designs and PCB implementations supported by clear requirements, interface specifications, design documentation, and well-defined characterization and verification strategies; ensures resulting evidence demonstrates compliance with product requirements and applicable medical device design controls.
- Leads electrical system integration across PCB hardware, ASICs, firmware, mechanical interfaces, and telemetry/RF systems, ensuring compatibility with manufacturing processes and alignment with product requirements.
- Ensures appropriate technical expertise and rigorous reviews are applied to circuit and PCB design, mixed-signal electronics, RF/telemetry performance, EMI/EMC, MRI safety, reliability, and safety-critical design decisions.
- Guides issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and technical decision-making for complex development and manufacturing issues, including tradeoffs involving power consumption, sensing performance, device size, reliability, manufacturability, and product cost.

- Partners with test engineering and global operations teams to define production test requirements, establish assembly and test readiness, and execute design transfer; supports yield improvement, failure analysis, and resolution of sustaining issues throughout the product lifecycle.

- Drives continuous improvement in design practices, documentation quality, test automation, design margin assessment, technical reviews, and engineering execution.
- Ensures work is performed in accordance with applicable internal procedures, regulatory expectations, and external standards including ISO 14708, IEC 60601, and other relevant medical device standards.
- Escalates technical, resource, quality, schedule, and organizational issues through established governance practices as appropriate.

Minimum Experience:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related technical field.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant technical experience with 5+ years of managerial or people leadership experience, OR advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant technical experience with 5+ years of managerial or people leadership experience.

Preferred Experience:

- Experience leading electrical engineering, product engineering, hardware integration, or systems integration teams in a regulated product development environment.
- Experience developing Class III medical devices, active implantable medical devices, or other high-reliability safety-critical products.
- Strong understanding of medical device design controls, verification and validation, requirements management, risk management, and post-market support.
- Technical breadth across PCB design, analog electronics, mixed-signal electronics, digital interfaces, RF/telemetry, ultra-low-power design, EMI/EMC, manufacturing test, and product integration, with the ability to guide technical reviews and tradeoffs across these areas.
- Experience integrating PCB hardware with firmware, ASICs, mechanical systems, sensors, electrodes, batteries, telemetry systems, or other embedded product technologies.
- Experience with MRI safety, electromagnetic compatibility, implantable device reliability, or applicable medical device standards such as ISO 14708 and IEC 60601.
- Demonstrated ability to lead root-cause investigations and resolve complex hardware, firmware, ASIC, manufacturing, or system-level interactions.
- Experience partnering with global manufacturing sites, suppliers, technical sourcing, operations, quality, reliability, regulatory, and program management.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound technical and business tradeoffs in ambiguous situations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment across engineering disciplines.
- Strong communication, leadership, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience developing technical talent, building team capability, and creating an inclusive, accountable, high-performing engineering culture.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.   We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$171,200.00 - $256,800.00

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
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U.S. Pay Transparency (for SIP, Commission, Hourly Direct, Interns, Executives)
The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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 , and   Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:   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) , and   Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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