Principal Electrical Engineer

Additional Location(s): N/A

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:

The AIS Electrical Hardware R&D team is looking for an experienced electrical engineer with exceptional technical depth and leadership capability to provide expertise in definition, design, development and test for our active implantable medical device portfolio.  As a key member of the electrical hardware design team, you will drive the creation, implementation, and continuous improvement of our electrical design of active implantable that ensure the reliability, safety, and performance of life-changing medical devices. You will collaborate closely with process development and V&V teams to enable rapid, high-quality development and test execution of design.

Work Mode:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an onsite work model, requiring employees to be present in our Arden Hills, MN office at least four to five days per week.

Visa Sponsorship:
Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designs, develops, debugs, modifies, and tests electrical circuits and systems by using current tools, analysis techniques, and technologies.
• Documents electrical development by writing documents, reports, memos, change requests. Methods used are determined by approved procedures and standards.
• Establish strategies for MRI testing and evaluation of implantable devices.
• Tracks electrical development effort by creating and maintaining records in the approved tracking management tool to include, utilizing multiple version control, defect tracking, and peer review tools including Accurev, JIRA and Windchill.
• Solves engineering problems by analyzing the situation and recommending corrective or alternative actions.
• Analyzes, evaluates, verifies, requirements, circuits, and systems by using engineering practices.
• Investigates, research, selects electronic circuits, components, tools, equipment and practices.
• Ability to perform design analysis and exploration testing.
• Ability to work with electrical and mechanical hardware and associated tools and infrastructure.
• Able to write final evaluation reports and work with regulatory groups to satisfy the requirements for external regulatory agencies.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System. Demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance with the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.
• Solves a range of problems of varying scope and complexity, generally applying existing solutions, while exercising autonomy to propose alternatives to understanding their impact on the business or applying judgment based on experience to develop new solutions.
• Works independently guided by company policies, guidelines and procedures, receiving guidance on complex and unprecedented problems.
• Create schematics, layouts, BOM’s and other design outputs as needed utilizing Altium Designer.
• Communicates clearly with cross-functional and cross-divisional stakeholders, providing concise technical updates and enabling informed decision-making.
• Collaborate effectively with process development, quality, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to ensure comprehensive, compliant test solutions.
• Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and direction to engineers and technicians in automation development and execution.
• In all actions, demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to all documented quality processes and procedures.

Required qualifications:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 9+ years of Electrical Engineering experience with bachelor’s degree, or 7+ years with Master’s.
• Ability to collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from all stakeholders using all sources of data.
• Ability to analyze test results and perform risk analysis.
• Ability to interpret and research requirements, specifications, and input/output processes.
• Experience with change management and issue tracking tools such as JIRA, AccuRev, Windchill etc.
• Requires in-depth conceptual, practical and technical and/or functional knowledge of principles and theories of board level electrical engineering and general understanding of related job functions.
• Strong lab experience including troubleshooting, iterative testing, fixture development/usage, and the operation of test equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, etc.)
• Experience with medical device industry or highly regulated industry.
• Ability to work onsite at our Arden Hills, MN facility.

Preferred qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in hardware engineering.
• 4+ years’ experience automated and manual testing in regulated industry, preferably in active implantable medical device domain.
• 4+ years’ experience in system development lifecycle process including formalized processes and procedures.
• Create protocols, automate tests, general experience in Perl, Python, HTML, scripting or equivalent.
• Experience with medical device electronics and systems.
• Experience using electrical engineering analysis techniques to map high-level requirements into circuit specifications.
• Ability to solve complex problems with root cause analysis, including designing and executing experimental plans and using statistical methodologies to drive data-based decisions.
• Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied sources.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently to plan, schedule, and execute activities to meet project timelines and objectives.
• Experience with standards like ISO 10974, PC76 or equivalents.
• Participation in the development of standards.

Requisition ID: 630289  

Minimum Salary: $ 102100  

Maximum Salary: $ 194000  

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at and follow us on  LinkedIn .

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement. The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.