Senior Electrical Engineer, Battery & Power

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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:

We are seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead the development and integration of battery and power systems for next-generation electrically active implantable medical devices. This role sits within a multidisciplinary R&D team and is responsible for translating system-level needs into robust electrical and battery specifications, while driving root cause analysis and continuous improvement of power-related performance.

This is not a purely design role - it requires strong systems thinking, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to work at the interface of electrical hardware, ASIC design, and battery technology.

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:

Battery & Power System Development

• Define, develop, and validate battery and power subsystem architectures for implantable devices.
• Lead battery selection, characterization, and qualification efforts with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Establish performance requirements including capacity, longevity, power consumption, safety margins, and environmental constraints.

Specification Development

• Translate clinical, system, and product requirements into detailed electrical and battery specifications.
• Collaborate with ASIC and electrical design teams to ensure alignment between system constraints and implementation.
• Drive clear, testable, and traceable requirements documentation.

Root Cause Analysis & Reliability

• Lead investigations into power-related failures, anomalies, and field issues.
• Apply structured problem-solving methodologies, including fault tree analysis, DOE, and statistical analysis.
• Develop corrective and preventive actions to improve system robustness and reliability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Interface closely with ASIC design, firmware, systems engineering, and mechanical teams.
• Act as the technical bridge between battery suppliers and internal design teams.
• Support integration and verification activities across the product lifecycle.

Regulatory & Quality Support:

• Ensure designs and specifications meet regulatory standards for implantable medical devices, including ISO 14708 and IEC 60601 where applicable.
• Contribute to design controls, risk management, and documentation required for regulatory submissions.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering, with a focus on battery systems, energy storage, or power management.
• Demonstrated experience developing and releasing specifications for complex systems.
• Experience, performing and leading root cause analysis in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
• Strong understanding of power electronics, battery behavior, and lifetime modeling.
• Experience working cross-functionally with ASIC or integrated circuit design teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with implantable or wearable medical devices.
• Familiarity with lithium-based chemistries used in medical applications.
• Experience working with battery vendors and managing external technical partnerships.
• Knowledge of low-power system design and energy budgeting for long-life devices – paired with high power features.
• Experience with reliability testing, accelerated life testing, and failure analysis techniques.
• Systems-level thinking with attention to detail.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete specifications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication across technical disciplines.
• Comfort operating in a regulated, design-controlled environment.

Requisition ID: 629869 

Minimum Salary: $ 85000 

Maximum Salary: $ 161500 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—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).

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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 www.bostonscientific.com 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.

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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.