Senior Software Engineer

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.

A Day in the Life

The Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for software design and development activities of complex electro-mechanical medical devices.The engineer will be a part of a small but a highly professional and geographically distributed Software team.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Work with global R&D teams to develop software for new and existing medical device products.
• Software design and development of embedded real-time systems, including the development of Software Unit Test & Integration plans and protocols.
• Participates in reviews, code inspections and will support the development of documentation required for FDA device approval. 
• Work effectively within a geographically dispersed and cross-functional teams during all phases of the product development process.
• Develop test automation framework and test scripts.
• Must be responsive, flexible, self-motivated and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment
• Is highly effective, agile and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities
• Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and never shies away from a challenge
• Be Agile and effectively navigate through changing project priorities.
• Mentor, guide and train other engineers

Required knowledge and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Electrical, Electronics / equivalent from reputed institution.
• 4 to 8 years’ experience in Embedded Software development with at least four (4) years’ experience in the Medical device/Medical IT or regulated industry.
• Expertise in modern C++ (C++ 11 and above) software design & coding required in an Embedded development environment.
• Expertise of Object-Oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD) and familiarity with UML is strongly desired.
• Know-how in field-bus technology (EtherCAT preferred) and standard embedded communication protocols (DDS, SPI, I2C, AXI, UART, etc.)
• Desired experience with RTOS like Linux/WinCE/ThreadX etc with multi-threading, IPC knowledge.
• Experience in hardware/software interfacing and design issues. Analyze unexpected, undesirable, or non-understood behavior in software and in interactions of software with hardware.
• Experience working in a structured software development environment following a well-defined software development process like Agile / Lean.
• Experience with software risk analysis (per ISO 14971) including software failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to multi-task.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills required.
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Awareness of Medical Device standards IEC 60601-1, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971 and applicable FDA standards

Physical Job Requirements

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. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here