Principal Clinical Data Engineer

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 LifeWe are seeking a talented engineer with broad experience in different disciplines.
In this exciting role as a Principal Clinical Data Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the success of clinical studies in Acute Care and Monitoring. You will support the clinical and engineering departments in the development of protocols, execution of the study, management of data, and data analysis. In addition to data analysis, you will utilize your engineering skills to troubleshoot, maintain, and develop custom data collection instruments. This is a highly collaborative role, requiring excellent communication and customer facing skills. You will be working cross functionally with clinical research specialists, development engineers, marketing, clinical study participants, hospitals, and clinicians.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides technical support to clinical study sites by serving as the technical resource between engineering and the medical community.
• This position is applicable when complex products are involved in clinical trials.
• Typically present during initial study kick-off to ensure the successful launch of the study.
• Support research and development in evaluating concepts of new products and modifying existing devices or therapies.
• Individuals in this role are often publishing data and findings in journals and may have existing patents and/or patent applications.
• Collaborates with various departments on the design, documentation, testing, and implementation of clinical data collection studies, and clinical database review.
• Assist with design and implementation of clinical protocols and data collection systems.
• Develops systems for organizing data to analyze, identify and report data and trends.
• Manages data management issues by reviewing protocols for cross-project consistency, and identifying standard Case Report Form (CRF) modules to meet objectives.
• Provide early strategic input into protocol design focused on data management issues.
• Review and resolve data discrepancies for standardized data validation systems and procedures.
• Prepares reports of clinical trial studies for internal validation and cross validation studies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience within the medical device industry.
• Proven track record of delivering on complex projects.
• Strong time and project-management skills with a high attention to detail.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking abilities.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements (FDA, IEC, ISO) and quality management systems.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with pre-clinical and clinical studies.
• Travel Requirements, 10-25%

Nice to Have

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering/Science and/or Data Science.
• Medical device development experience, design control, FDA and MDR regulations.
• Experience in data science and analysis.
• Experience with programming languages including Python and Matlab
• Demonstrated skills in “systems thinking” – ability to consider problems, implementations, and impacts at a higher system level
• General knowledge of related principals including electromechanical, tissue optics, physiological signals, etc.
• Experienced in design for six sigma or similar engineering practices
• Experience with pulse oximetry/light-based sensing

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.

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):$123,200.00 - $184,800.00

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).

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About Medtronic

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Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ 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.

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