Principal 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 LifeThe Principal Software Engineer is responsible for providing Principalership in the software development of cutting-edge products used in the medical field.  Specific tasks include:

• Principal the software architecture planning, design and implementation

• Designing, developing, testing and documenting software components and applications.

• Principaling requirements gathering, estimating, and planning efforts.

• Promote continuous improvement through the use of tools and practices such as Agile, Scrum

• Interfacing with mechanical, electrical, systems, and test engineers.

• Troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining, and supporting existing software products.

• Supporting labs and surgical evaluations of products.

• Participating in and Principaling on-going professional development activities.

• Following Medtronic Surgical Innovations product development standards and practices.

• Identifying and implementing process improvements.

• Willingness and ability to assume increased responsibility.

• Effectively Principaling development teams.

• Occasional domestic and international travel may be required.

• All activities must be performed in compliance with the Quality System.

• Performs duties in compliance with environmental, health and safety related site rules, policies or governmental regulations.

• Reports to the Software Manager for functional Principalership.

• Frequent interaction with Global stake holders, Software Developers, team members from other disciplines, particularly SWQA, SW V&V engineers, to develop software test requirements and other project artifacts. Possible interaction with third-party vendors, subcontractors and other users.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools and utilities.
• Determines systems software design requirements.
• Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.
• Generates systems software engineering policies, standards and procedures.
• May work across a variety of software lifecycle activities as determined by program needs.

Required knowledge and experience:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science/ ECE/EE or equivalent 
• BE with 14+ years of experience in software design and development is required. 
• Medical Device Industry or related experience 
• Expertise in Embedded C in RTOS development environment. 
• Working knowledge of Communication protocols ( I2C, SPI, UART). 
• Hands on experience in Embedded / Firmware Device Driver  
• Experience in hardware/software interfacing and design issues required. 
• Debugging experience using Logic Analyzer 
• Ability to define, develop and implement automated unit / integration test solutions 
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills 
• Participate in System design, coordination with teams and internal product management 
• Experience with change control, requirements management, source code control 
• Excellent time management and professionalism    
• Superior written and verbal communication skills required. 
• Perform Code Reviews, Static Code Analysis, Dynamic Code Analysis 
• Generate Software Metrics for Unit Testing, Integration Testing 
• Works collaboratively with software engineers, and SW QA.  Flexible in working under changing and different work settings and work in different time zones 
• Experience working in regulated environments and delivering new products in compliance with global regulatory standards 
• Prior experience Principaling the development of FDA Class I, II and III Medical Device systems 
• Prior experience with and working understanding of complex embedded systems and software 
• Eight Core Competencies: Intellectual Horsepower, Technical Ability, Team Building, Identifying and Developing Talent, Dealing with Ambiguity/Change, Manage Diverse Relationships, Organizational Ability, Comfort Around Higher Management 
• Knowledge of software, hardware, or system design, development, troubleshooting and test practices. 
• Strong Principalership skills and mentoring capabilities.  
• Ability to work in a team environment and directly contribute to its success. 
  Nice to Haves 
• MS with 12+ years of experience in software design and development is preferred. 
• Experience in Embedded real-time applications is preferred. 
• Medical device software development experiences a plus 
• Knowledge of OOA&D and familiarity with UML is strongly desired. 
• Experience in medical device SW development is added advantage 

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 95,000+ 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  
 

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