Wet Etch Senior Process Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on – 24 Nov 2025. At Medtronic you can begin a lifelong 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 Life:
In this role, you will be responsible for the Wafer and Sensor Operations released product portfolio. Products include implantable cardiac monitors and hybrid components leveraged in pacemakers and defibrillators. In this position, you will sustain wafer fab wet etch, wet cleans, and plasma processes. You will lead and participate in defect reduction and yield improvement efforts and promote and drive safety in the manufacturing process.

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.

You can grow your career with us; we hope you’ll consider joining our team! Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Provides technical and sustaining engineering support in a manufacturing area.
• Recommends and implements equipment and process modifications to meet quality standards and improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques as well as production yields for existing products.
• Integrates equipment and material capabilities to meet process module target specifications and technology target specifications.
• Reviews product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.
• Interacts with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.
• May develop and conduct statistical analysis or recommend additions to document work.
• Leads the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations.
• This can include scouting and feasibility work, material selection, process and equipment selection, tooling / fixture and equipment installation and assessment of inputs, outputs and alignment to requirements.
• Develops manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques including the measurement systems.
• Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, or similar technical discipline and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

• Direct experience developing and deploying wet etch processes in a wafer fab.
• Direct manufacturing experience with wafer fab based processes, microelectromechanical systems, or similar work experience.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills; demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross‑linked technical work environment.

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.

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