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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.

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 4 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 Surgical Operating Unit (OU) at Medtronic is dedicated to advancing minimally invasive therapies that help improve patient outcomes and transform surgical care. The OU develops innovative technologies across surgical energy, stapling, advanced instrumentation, and robotics, enabling surgeons to operate with greater precision, efficiency, and confidence. By combining deep clinical insight, engineering excellence, and a strong focus on customer and patient needs, the Surgical OU plays a critical role in Medtronic’s mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

Medtronic is seeking a Quality Engineer II to support the Core Surgical Innovations (CSI) Stapling product portfolio within the Medical Surgical Operating Unit. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the quality, safety, and reliability of released medical devices across their full lifecycle—from design and manufacturing through distribution and product obsolescence.

The Quality Engineer II will work on complex, parallel initiatives that have a direct and immediate impact on product quality, patient safety, and business performance. The role requires strong technical judgment, critical thinking, and collaboration with cross‑functional partners to support continuous improvement, product and process changes, and the resolution of quality issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains quality standards and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished medical device products.
• Supports and risk assessments associated with design changes, released products, and quality events.
• Reviews, approves, and maintains technical documentation related to engineering and design changes, including risk management files and quality records.
• Performs Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and supports other risk management and technical documentation activities.
• Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, and cross‑functional teams to ensure appropriate quality standards and controls are in place.
• Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
• Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests.
• Performs statistical and technical analysis to evaluate nonconforming materials or products and supports root cause investigations.
• Ensures corrective and preventive actions meet acceptable reliability and quality standards and that all documentation complies with applicable requirements.
• Supports investigations and assessments related to potential product quality issues in the released product portfolio.
• Contributes to continuous improvement initiatives, including product and process changes driven by market and business needs.
• May specialize in areas such as design quality, incoming materials, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control, or research and development as they relate to product or process quality.

Minimum Requirements (Must Have!)

• -Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline, plus 2 years of relevant quality, engineering, or regulated industry experience, OR
• Masters degree with 0-2 years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the medical device industry or another highly regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of quality systems, risk management, and design controls.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing.
• Experience supporting released medical device products.
• Hands‑on experience with DFMEA, risk management files, and design change quality reviews.
• Knowledge of medical device lifecycle requirements, including design, manufacturing, distribution, and obsolescence.
• Experience collaborating with cross‑functional teams to resolve quality issues and implement process improvements.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies and root cause analysis techniques.

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.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.

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):$76,800.00 - $115,200.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.