Prin Electrical Engineer - Exempt

Join our team in Plymouth, MN, where we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. Our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration is supported by in-person exchanges, working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite.

Primary Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership
  • Serve as the electrical engineering subject matter expert for complex sustaining engineering, quality, compliance, and product enhancement initiatives.
  • Lead the design, development, integration, verification, and validation of mixed-signal electrical systems and subsystems used in surgical medical devices.
  • Define hardware architectures and technical solutions that balance product performance, reliability, manufacturability, compliance, and cost objectives.
  • Review and approve electrical designs, schematics, test plans, engineering changes, and qualification strategies.
  • Drive system-level troubleshooting and root cause investigations involving electrical, mechanical, software, and firmware interactions.
• Product Lifecycle & Sustaining Engineering
  • Lead electrical engineering activities supporting released products, including design changes and engineering change orders (ECOs), obsolescence management, supplier-driven changes, lifecycle and End-of-Life (EOL) initiatives, cost reduction, and VAVE projects.
  • Assess product impacts associated with component, material, and supplier changes and determine requalification requirements.
  • Support manufacturing and supplier quality teams in resolving production issues and field-related concerns.
• Product Quality & Compliance
  • Ensure designs comply with applicable standards and regulations, including IEC 60601-1, IEC 60601-1-2, IEC 60601-2-2, FDA Quality System Requirements, ISO 13485, and Risk Management requirements.
  • Lead technical assessments and investigations related to customer complaints, CAPAs, nonconformances, audits, and field performance issues.
  • Evaluate complaint trends and reliability data to determine if systemic quality issues exist and develop appropriate corrective actions.
  • Support EMC, electrical safety, environmental, reliability, and performance testing activities.
• Design & Development
  • Perform and oversee circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout reviews, component selection, design analysis and simulation, system integration, and design verification testing.
  • Develop detailed technical specifications, requirements, test protocols, and engineering documentation.
  • Ensure hardware designs meet performance, reliability, safety, and manufacturability requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with Systems Engineering, Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing Engineering teams.
  • Work with external test laboratories, suppliers, consultants, and contract manufacturers as required.
  • Provide technical leadership during cross-functional design reviews, risk reviews, and business decision-making processes.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
  • Identify opportunities to improve product performance, reliability, compliance, manufacturability, and cost.
  • Drive adoption of engineering best practices, tools, and methodologies.
  • Support platform strategies, design standardization, and technology roadmaps across the Surgical Hardware portfolio.
  • Contribute to the evaluation and implementation of emerging technologies.
• Leadership & Talent Development
  • Mentor and coach electrical engineers and cross-functional team members.
  • Lead technical reviews and provide guidance on engineering approaches and problem-solving techniques.
  • Influence technical direction across multiple projects and product platforms.
  • Serve as a technical leader for major cross-functional initiatives and strategic engineering projects.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline with 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with 5 years of relevant experience.

Required Technical Experience

• Experience with all phases of mixed-signal board design, including architecture development, circuit design, schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout and reviews, and design verification.
• Strong fundamentals in analog and digital circuit design, signals and systems, frequency-domain analysis, power electronics, and system integration.
• Experience with OrCAD schematic capture and PCB design tools.
• Hands-on experience using laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers.
• Experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting high-voltage systems (up to approximately 5 kV).
• Experience working within regulated industries, preferably medical devices.
• Knowledge of IEC 60601 family of standards and medical device development processes.
• Strong root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting released products within a medical device environment.
• Experience with EMC and electrical safety testing.
• Experience with supplier qualification, supplier-driven changes, and component obsolescence management.
• Experience leading VAVE and cost optimization initiatives.
• Exposure to systems engineering practices and requirements-driven development.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments.
• Familiarity with Surgical Hardware or electrosurgical products.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or A3 problem-solving experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across organizations.