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Come Engineer the Extraordinary as an Engineering Program Manager on the Sensor and Infusion Engineering R&D team within Medtronic Diabetes. As a member of the program core team representing the sensor function, you will be responsible for providing engineering leadership and facilitating the ideation, design, development, clinical testing, and regulatory submissions of micro-fabricated electrochemical glucose and/or multi-analyte bio-sensors for our next generation diabetes management products. This role involves leading sensor research, development, and integration programs through cross-functional collaboration with technical subject matter experts and an extensive understanding of the product development process.These efforts span across the research and development of the sensor chemistry, electrodes, algorithm, manufacturing processes, sterilization, and conducting in-vivo feasibility studies to meet specific patient and business needs.

This is an in-person full-time position and may require travel less than 10% of the time.

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A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develop clear and attainable project objectives, build project requirements, and manage the triple constraints of time, cost, and technical scope
• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan for the sensor subsystem and engage with the technical team to deliver on milestones
• Work across engineering teams (chemistry design, sensor electrode design, sensor manufacturing, algorithms, system engineering, clinical feasibility, etc.) to manage technical effort and design integration
• Manage technical risks and issues by working with the technical team to develop and maintain risk burndown plans, tracking metrics that relate to the sensor performance goals, investigating issues and implementing solutions in a timely manner
• Engage with program core teams, senior leadership, and external partners to ensure adequate visibility, communication, and feedback
• Develop communication mechanisms including storyboards and leverage PowerPoint slides to inform Senior level leadership and program stakeholders of program strategy, status, risks, next steps, etc.
• Interface with key functions to align on stakeholder needs during technology feasibility and formal product development
• Develop strong understanding of the system interdependencies as they relate to sensor signals, and drive requirements accordingly
• Maintain system and platform level visibility to ensure seamless integration of continuous monitoring devices into stand alone and closed loop systems
• Documenting and presenting work products to management and senior level leadership
• Manage internal and external customers
• Apply design control procedures to project development effort
• Mentoring of junior staff to develop best practices