Product Engineer II

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 Oct 2026
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the LifeMedtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
The product engineering II supports sustaining engineering activities for stapling products in the Released Product Engineering (RPE) group within the CSI. This role is responsible for evaluating and implementing product and process changes, developing design and test documentation, supporting investigations, and collaborating across functions to resolve product, supplier, and manufacturing issues while maintaining compliance with medical device regulations and design control requirements.Within the RPE group, this role focuses on sustaining engineering for commercially released products, including Open, Laparoscopic stapling devices and GYN products. The team partners closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and suppliers to maintain product performance, quality, compliance, and continuity of supply throughout the product lifecycle. This position is based in North Haven, CT and follows a hybrid work model requiring on-site presence four days per week. Travel is expected to be minimal and may include visits to manufacturing sites or suppliers as needed.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Represents the organization in providing imaginative, thorough, practical solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific products that are consistent with the organizations objectives.
Anticipates and identifies problems of a unique and challenging nature, including those requiring research and/or analysis to identify.
Work on highly complex technical problems and provide solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious to a broad range of problems.
Collaborates with peers to manage the development of appropriate testing to verify product meets internal and external customer requirements.
Reviews and evaluates development protocols, results and conclusions.
Demonstrates an understanding of functional and customer requirements.
Collaborates with peers to develop appropriate testing to verify product meets requirements and sets appropriate specifications to ensure product reliability and manufacturability.
Investigates customer complaints on existing products and helps to determine root cause of complaint and corrective actions if necessary.
Incorporates required regulatory standards in developmental and/or sustaining engineering projects.
Contributes inventions, new designs and techniques associated with the completion of specific projects.
Provides primary technical contributions and or may lead sub projects.
Adheres to safety policy and procedures.
Conducts project management tasks and documentation with design controls and risk analysis in accordance with established SOPs.
Prepares reports, presentations and spreadsheets of an analytical and interpretative nature to be presented to peers, executives, and customers.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
Bachelors degree required
Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience
Nice to Have
BS in Engineering
Experience with FDA 21 CFR part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971 and GMP
Experience working with statistical analysis tools to include Minitab, DOE, process capability, measurement system and confidence interval analysis
Process V&V, IQ, OQ, PQ and TMV
Knowledge of DFMEA and PFMEA, process mapping and critical to quality reviews
Demonstrated knowledge DFA/DFM, design and manufacturing documentation to include specifications, procedures, sampling methods, tolerance studies and GD&T
PTC Creo or Solidworks
CAPA, root cause investigations quality tools to include DMAIC A3, 5 Whys, 6 M, Ishikawa Diagram and Pareto Charts
Experience or knowledge of engineering drawings and GD&T
Traveling maybe required-up 10%.
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.
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.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
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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):$80,000.00 - $120,000.00
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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).