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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Medtronic Inc.
- **Location:** Los Angeles County, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $110,400.0 - $165,600.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Architecture
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c10ba6cb-25c0-4d71-bf78-ff5fcedacfb4

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree with 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with 2 years of relevant experience.
 * Strong knowledge of Design Controls, including requirements development, verification, validation (V&V), and traceability throughout the product development lifecycle.
 * Experience working within a Quality Management System (QMS) in a regulated environment.
 * Experience collaborating cross-functionally with software, hardware, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
 * Experience with reliability engineering, verification and validation, or failure analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Formal education, training, or hands-on experience in Systems Engineering principles and methodologies.
 * Experience in the medical device industry and familiarity with applicable regulatory requirements (FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, etc.).

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.

## Description

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead and support system-level development activities across the product lifecycle for Neuromodulation products and enabling technologies. The role focuses on translating customer and business needs into system requirements, managing interfaces across hardware and software components, supporting design changes, and ensuring products meet user, quality, and regulatory expectations through verification, validation, and risk management activities., * Lead system-level design, development, and integration activities for implantable devices, instruments, and enabling technologies.

 * Translate customer, clinical, and business needs into stakeholder and system requirements with clear traceability throughout the development lifecycle.
 * Define, analyze, and manage system architectures, interfaces, workflows, use cases, and functional requirements across hardware and software components.
 * Lead system verification and validation activities, including test planning, execution, analysis, and documentation to demonstrate compliance with requirements.
 * Conduct risk assessments and support identification and mitigation of technical risks, hazards, and failure modes.
 * Evaluate field issues, change requests, and product performance data to identify root causes and implement engineering solutions.
 * Collaborate with research and development, quality, regulatory, marketing, and project management teams to support system development and product improvements.
 * Support concept development, formative evaluations, usability studies, and laboratory-based testing to assess system functionality and user workflows.


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