Senior 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 Life
You'll begin by tackling complex software challenges that demand precision, speed, and reliability. You'll design, develop, and debug critical system components while guiding and mentoring engineers around you. Every decision and every line of code you contribute helps shape a life-saving surgical platform used across the globe.

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

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of complex embedded software modules across a wide range of platforms, including Bare-metal, Linux, QNX, and Windows environments.
• Develop real-time control software for high-precision sensors and actuators, ensuring deterministic behaviour and system reliability.
• Demonstrate hands-on development excellence, actively coding and debugging complex embedded modules.
• Own and drive end-to-end implementation — from Low level to application layers — while managing architectural decisions, performance optimizations, and integration challenges.
• Exhibit deep debugging proficiency, using low-level tools, instrumentation, and log analysis to quickly isolate and fix issues in complex systems.
• Lead and participate in design reviews, FMEAs, risk assessments, and root cause analyses, ensuring high product quality and compliance with global medical standards.
• Coach, mentor, and groom junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Collaborate with V&V, systems, safety, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure testability, traceability, and compliance with standards.
• Work closely with cross-functional global teams, influencing platform strategy, reusability, and long-term maintainability.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science, Mechatronics Engineering.
• 16+ years of embedded software development experience, with 5+ years in a senior or principal technical leadership role.
• Expertise in modern C++ (C++17/20 and above) and real-time embedded systems.
• Deep understanding of OS internals - Linux, QNX, Windows, and bare-metal platforms.
• Strong knowledge of sensor/actuator control, deterministic loop design, low-latency architecture, and safety-critical constraints.
• Solid grounding in embedded software design patterns, performance optimization, memory management, and synchronization techniques.
• Hands-on experience with debugging complex embedded systems, using JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analysers, GDB, and performance profilers.
• Demonstrated experience in regulated environments, with a strong grasp of medical device development standards. Nice to Have:
• Experience with DDS (Data Distribution Service), EtherCAT or other real-time communication middleware.
• Knowledge of power management, UPS software behaviour, and safety mechanisms.
• Familiarity with GUI frameworks like Qt/QML in embedded environments.
• Exposure to cybersecurity, secure bootloaders, firmware upgrade mechanisms, and encrypted communications.
• Contributions to open-source or prior work on high-integrity systems (medical, aerospace, automotive, etc.).

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.

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