
Senior Reliability Engineer
Medtronic · Mounds View, MN
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $107k–$161k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 4+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A senior reliability role at Medtronic (medical devices) in Mounds View, MN. Support reliability and engineering activities to analyze, debug, and recommend design or process changes that improve system and process reliability.
- They ask for
- 4+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, ISO 13485, FDA / GMP, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Base pay
- $107k–$161k
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Minnesota: typical posted base $105k–$152k. This one lists $107k–$161k.
Median of the low and high ends of 9 live postings that list pay, out of 10 reliability engineer openings in Minnesota, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Minnesota plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 9 other live reliability postings in Minnesota.
- Base pay
- In line with similar roles
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (4+ vs 5+)
Typical $105k–$152k, from 8 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 40%
- ✓ Root cause 30%
- ✓ FDA / GMP 30%
- PLC 30%
- ✓ ISO 13485 20%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 20%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Medtronic in Mounds View
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Full description from MedtronicAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Support reliability and engineering activities to analyze, debug, and recommend design or process changes that improve system and process reliability
- ◆Assist with risk analysis studies of designs and processes to understand how potential quality issues may contribute to product quality or patient safety risk
- ◆Author or support the preparation of risk assessments, technical reports, and documentation of analysis results or quality impact; May fulfill the role of “Personnel with Clinical Knowledge” in risk management assessments if specialized skill criteria is met
- ◆Support verification and validation of device system requirements, including traceability and testability
- ◆Conduct or support evaluation of finished product systems, including requirements, design, development, documentation, integration, test, verification, and validation
- ◆Interpret and decompose system and product
requirements
and verify compliance with applicable standards and specifications
- ✓Collaborate with cross-functional partners to help investigate quality issues and support corrective actions
- ✓Analyze product performance data and summarize findings to support post-market surveillance and product improvement activities
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Understanding of CRM products and their use in the clinical environment
- ✓Experience in reliability engineering or risk management
- ✓Clinical field experience utilizing CRM products
- ✓Experience in root cause investigations and assessing the risk impact of proposed design changes
- ✓Experience with 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971
- ✓Ability to evaluate and debug electrical designs, including RF performance
- ✓Experience with design, verification, and validation of Class III medical devices or similar regulated products
- ✓Demonstrated ability to perform data analysis using statistical techniques and reliability tools
Required Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or a technical discipline AND 4+ years of related work experience OR 2+ years of related work experience with an advanced degree
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.
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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
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
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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
The Senior Reliability Engineer will support key technical activities within the Electrophysiology Therapies (EPT) Defibrillation Solutions (DS) Post Market Quality organization. This role will contribute to post-market surveillance activities by analyzing product performance data, supporting risk assessments and technical documentation, and helping investigate quality issues to improve product performance for implantable products such as pacemakers, defibrillators, and leads.
The EPT DS operating unit offers high power devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms.
This position will be based at our Mounds View, MN facility and follows a hybrid work model requiring a minimum of 4 days per week on-site for in-person collaboration and project activities.
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