Design Quality Engineering Director - Minneapolis

Medtronic • Minneapolis, MN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Feb 2026 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 A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide. At Medtronic Neuromodulation (NM) and Pelvic Health (PH), our therapies use advanced stimulation, sensing, software, and digital technologies to restore function and relieve suffering for people living with movement disorders, epilepsy, chronic pain, and pelvic health disorders. Our newest generation of systems can listen directly to neural signals and intelligently adjust therapy in real time — representing a breakthrough era of personalized neuromodulation. In this highly dynamic and rapidly evolving R&D environment, every design decision matters, and the quality of our designs directly influences clinician confidence, patient outcomes, and global healthcare impact. The Design Quality Engineering Director for the Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health Operating Units leads the quality engineering and program management team supporting new product development for therapies including Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS), Targeted Drug Delivery (TDD), Interventional Pain (Ablation, Vertebral Compression Fracture), Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT), Sacral Neuromodulation (SNM), and Tibial Neuromodulation (TNM) As the Design Quality Engineering Director, you will play a mission‑critical role at the intersection of innovation and patient safety. You will ensure that every new product — from concept through commercialization — is designed with the highest standards of safety, reliability, and quality at its core. Leading a high-caliber team of design quality engineers, you will shape risk management, design assurance, and system-level evaluation for next-generation neuromodulation and pelvic health technologies. Your leadership will directly influence the future of neurostimulation, sensing systems, and pelvic health therapies while partnering deeply with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, and Post-Market to deliver innovations that transform lives worldwide. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a related field with a Minimum of 10 years of experience in quality and/or engineering in the Medical Device or related industry, with 7+ years of managerial experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Experience in medical device or safety-critical (i.e., defense, aerospace) product development – from concept to commercialization.
• Demonstrated experience leading and transforming technical or quality organizations, including improving capability, credibility, and performance in complex, matrixed environments.
• Experience in quality, reliability, design assurance, safety, or systems engineering.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Experience developing and programmatically implementing quality improvement practices and tools (Design for Six Sigma, DRM, FMEA, FTA, DOE, etc.).
• Knowledge of global regulatory requirements, including FDA and ISO standards, including ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and experience presenting evidence of compliance to regulatory bodies in audits or submission reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead: Build, assess, and lead a high-performing Design Quality organization, including setting a high technical bar for talent, making decisive talent decisions, and ensuring the right capabilities and leadership are in place to support a growing and increasingly complex R&D portfolio.
• Execute: Ensure accountability for program execution, technical excellence, issue identification, escalation, and resolution during all phases of product development.
• Establish Design Quality as a technically credible, value-adding partner to R&D, earning trust through deep understanding of system architecture, software, hardware, reliability, and risk — and challenging design decisions when patient safety, robustness, or reliability are at risk.
• Innovation: Lead Design Quality transformation - leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, automation, and digital engineering practices to modernize risk management, design reviews, verification strategies, and knowledge reuse — fundamentally changing how quality enables speed and confidence in new product development decision-making.
• Influence: Build and align with stakeholders on a vision and execution plan to develop engineering practices, tools, solutions, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure safety and quality from concept to commercialization on dozens of new product development programs across all NM and PH therapies.
• Collaborate: Serve as a strategic advisor to Core Team Leaders, R&D & Quality functional leaders, and Medtronic enterprise functional leaders to provide early input on program and product design, as well as define the methods, measurements, and practices to enable safety, reliability, and speed to market globally.
• Communicate: Serve as a member of the NM and PH Operating Units’ quality leadership team.
• Lead and communicate key priorities and business strategy to executive leadership teams in the NM and PH OUs, and influence them on matters related to business strategy, customer experience, product quality, safety, and compliance.
• Engage: Proactively engage external stakeholders, including the FDA, notified bodies, and industry working groups, to ensure compliance and maintain alignment with industry best practices.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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).
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director