Job Description

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 Life

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) is an Operating Units within the Cardiac portfolioat Medtronic. At CAS, we are developing next generation medical technologies that treat patients with abnormal heart rhythms. Our technologies save lives and improve the quality of living for millions of patients across the world by advancing innovation for the diagnosis and ablation of cardiac arrhythmias and enabling clinicians to perform procedures with superior outcomes. Our growing and innovative portfolio provides solutions that advance and enhance care.

Our team support the creation of our market-leading portfolio of innovations.

Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move

forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

In this role, you will be embedded within a cross-functional product development team, supporting Project Torus, applying Design Risk Management (DRM) principles to ensure robust, reliable product performance from concept through commercialisation.

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

• Partner with core team functions (R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory) to integrate reliability and risk management into daily program activities and decision-making.

• Drive risk-based thinking across the program, actively identifying, assessing, and mitigating design and process risks as the product evolves.

• Lead and contribute to risk management activities, including DFMEA/FMECA development, hazard analysis, and risk file updates aligned to ISO 14971.

• Define and execute reliability strategies, including reliability growth planning, test strategies, and risk burn-down approaches to improve product robustness.

• Develop and support verification and validation activities, ensuring test plans are risk-informed and aligned with design inputs and intended use.

• Analyse test and field data, using failure analysis, trending, and reliability modelling to inform design decisions and improve system performance.

• Lead structured problem-solving and root cause investigations for reliability issues, driving timely corrective and preventive actions.

• Engage in program cadence (scrums, design reviews, technical reviews) to ensure reliability is embedded in day-to-day execution and design decisions.

• Communicate risks, trade-offs, and reliability insights clearly to stakeholders, influencing decisions and ensuring alignment across the program.

• Support regulatory and quality deliverables, including audits, submissions, and ensuring compliance with design controls and quality system requirements.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum NFQ Level 8 or higher in Engineering or a related technical discipline, with 4+ years’ experience in reliability, quality, or product development OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

• Experience working in a highly regulated industry (ideally medical devices) with strong understanding of FDA and ISO standards (e.g. ISO 13485, ISO 14971).

• Strong knowledge of Design Risk Management (DRM) and risk management methodologies is desirable:

  • DFMEA / PFMEA / hazard analysis

  • Risk assessment, mitigation, and risk file management

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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. 

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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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 64,640.00 EUR - 96,960.00 EUR | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).