Senior Reliability Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Mar 2026

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long 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.

Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives.

The Senior Reliability Engineer plays a critical part in maintaining compliance, enhancing system reliability, and supporting a robust validation lifecycle. They will be responsible for ensuring equipment, systems, and processes consistently perform to established quality and operational standards. The Senior Reliability Engineer develops and maintains key validation documentation, including Master Installation Qualification (IQ) protocols, Master Validation Plans, and Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) plans.

They will also perform data analysis and provide statistical insights to support decision‑making and continuous improvement.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

This role is 100% onsite at our Warsaw, IN manufacturing site.

• Develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Complete risk analysis studies of new design and processes.
• Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics; investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
• Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks.
• As necessary, propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specify minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

• Requires a Bachelors degree 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.

• Create and maintain Master Installation Qualification (IQ) documentation.
• Develop, update, and execute Master Validation Plans.
• Design and execute Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) protocols.
• Execute IQ, OQ, and PQ activities in accordance with approved protocols.
• Perform data analysis and provide statistical feedback and recommendations to cross‑functional teams.
• Support internal and external audit responses related to IQ, OQ, and PQ activities.
• Conduct or assist with cleaning validation activities, as required.

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.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees…