Reliability Engineer II

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 LifeExperienced individual contributor in Reliability Engineering, working on complex projects. Responsible for entire projects/processes focusing on reliability testing of assigned systems/subsystems/component, including Component Failure Analysis, protocol development, data analysis, and collaboration with external vendors. Integral part of an R&D Reliability Engineering team, liaising with cross-functional members, suppliers, and test laboratories to ensure project objectives are met

A Day in the Life

Experienced individual contributor in Reliability Engineering, working on complex projects. Responsible for entire projects/processes focusing on reliability testing of assigned systems/subsystems/component, including Component Failure Analysis, protocol development, data analysis, and collaboration with external vendors. Integral part of an R&D Reliability Engineering team, liaising with cross-functional members, suppliers, and test laboratories to ensure project objectives are met.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintaining and executing activities such as preliminary component failure analysis, test capability development, protocol development, test method development, test execution, data recording/reporting, data analysis/management, test status reporting/presentation.

• Conducting reliability testing of assigned system/subsystem/component

• Leading the development and qualification of methods, fixtures, platforms, and software for reliability tests

• Participating in system level workflow testing simulating user experience and assisting initial fault isolation activities

• Facilitating the system level workflow testing and training of test operators.

• Knowledge on data analysis using statistical analysis such as MS Excel, Minitab, and ReliaSoft. Supporting the entire assigned projects/processes within Reliability Engineering

• Reporting issues using established procedures/processes

• Improving processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of Reliability testing

• Coordinating, and conducting technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs

• Establishing design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability

• Completing risk analysis studies of new design and processes

• Knowledge of electronics circuit design, schematics and board layout is desired.

• Implement and maintain data collection or self-diagnostic test systems and scripts for environmental testing of electrical components and sub systems

• Experience with testing and evaluating electrical performance, failures, and determination of the useful life for complex electro-mechanical and robotic systems, test and measurement equipment, analysis methodologies and test documentation is required.

Principal Working Relationships

• Reports to the Sr. Engineering Manager/Engineering Manager

• Accountable to Project Manager(s) for project-related responsibilities

• Frequent interaction with team members from other disciplines, particularly hardware engineers, to develop project requirements and other project artifacts such as project schedules.  Possible interaction with clinicians, third-party vendors, manufacturers, subcontractors, and other users.

Experience

• 4 to less than 8 Years of experience or with an advanced degree with 3+ years of experience

Education

• Required: - B.E or B.Tech in Electrical or Electronics or Mechatronics

• Preferred: - M.E or M.Tech in Electrical or Electronics or Mechatronics

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. .

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. 

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.
 

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

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