Associate Engineering Director

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 LifeMedtronic is seeking a dynamic Associate Engineering Director to lead embedded and platform software development and sustaining engineering programs for its Surgical Robotics platform. This role requires building and managing a high-performing team of engineers, driving both new product development and existing system enhancements.
You will oversee cross-functional engineering efforts—especially in software development, verification, and related domains—ensuring strategic alignment with Operating Unit (OU) goals. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in embedded systems, leadership of diverse technical teams, and experience in regulated medical device environments.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Lead embedded and platform software development across new product initiatives and sustaining programs in Surgical Robotics.
• Build, manage, and develop high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams; foster a culture of engagement, collaboration, and excellence.
• Align engineering execution with Operating Unit (OU) strategy, regulatory compliance, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate globally across OUs, design, QA, and project management teams to ensure integrated, high-quality product development.
• Drive verification and validation activities; oversee issue resolution, design optimization, and continuous test plan improvement.
• Monitor project progress, budgets, and resource allocation; ensure cost-effective, timely delivery of engineering solutions.
• Champion best practices in software development, process improvement, and product lifecycle management within regulated environments.
• Represent the team in broader R&D forums; promote cross-functional communication and strategic alignment.
• Mentor engineers and managers; conduct design reviews and remove barriers to team success.
• Demonstrate strong leadership in risk management, decision-making, and change management.

The role requirement for the current & potential engagements with OUs would require:

• Product development experience
• People Management experience
• Software development and SW development practices and models
• Product Engineering Management critical experience 
• Strategic customer engagement experience

Required Knowledge and Experience

• 18+ years in embedded and platform software development within the medical device or related industry; 8+ years in software architecture and people/project management, leading cross-functional teams of 30+.
• Managing and leading multiple teams of software managers and engineers, including hiring, performance management, and team development, preferably in the global R&D environment settings.
• Designing and developing software for complex electromechanical software systems, including embedded software development as well as RTOS, distributed computing, software Infrastructure, etc.
• Collaborating and managing software projects in both Agile/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and traditional project management methodologies.
• Technical Expertise: Proficient in Embedded C++ (Version 11+) RTOS environments (QNX, Linux), and object-oriented design. Skilled in troubleshooting on embedded targets and applying design patterns.
• Leadership & Management: Proven track record managing global R&D teams, driving concurrent software releases using Agile/Waterfall, and ensuring compliance with global medical regulatory standards.
• Regulatory & Process Knowledge: Deep understanding of design controls, ISO 13485/14971, validation, verification, and GDP. Experienced in process optimization, establishing software metrics, and fostering turnkey engineering solutions.
• Industry Experience: Prior leadership roles in large MNCs; budgetary and departmental oversight; expert in medical device or regulated industries.
• Project Execution: Strong program and technology management skills with successful execution of complex engineering projects involving globally dispersed teams.
• Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, including hardware, systems, quality, regulatory, and other product development teams; Communicating technical information to both technical and non-technical audience.
• Medical robotics, medical capital equipment, or highly regulated industry experience
• Knowledge of software development workflow. 
• Great communication skills: Strong ability to coordinate people and teams around unstructured challenges and moving project priorities.
• Fluency in English
• Software architecture and model-based development best practices
• Reports to Engineering Director
• Accountable to Project Manager(s) for project-related responsibilities
• Frequent interaction with team members from other disciplines, particularly hardware engineers, to develop project requirements and other project artifacts such as project schedules.  Possible interaction with clinicians, third-party vendors, manufacturers, subcontractors, and other users.
• Possible interaction with clinicians, third-party vendors, manufacturers, and subcontractors.
• Required: Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology in Computer Sciences, Electronics or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent from a premium institute.
• Preferred: Maters in Engineering or Masters in Technology Computer Science, Bio-Medical, Electronics or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent from a premier institute.
• Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
• Oversees activities of the company's development and design requirements for software systems, applications and software quality assurance for enhancements and new products, including cloud-based or internet-related tools, to meet the current and future Software needs.
• Manages activities to assure programs are appropriately resourced and ensure continuous improvement in technical capability, process, and compliance.
• Manages scope, cost, and schedule within a cross-functional development team.
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Autonomy: Manages large team which would typically consist of both experienced professionals and managers.
• Turns the department strategy into a commercial reality by developing, communicating and implementing business plans to achieve business results.
• Receives assignments in objective oriented terms; has latitude to reinterpret objectives.
• Organizational Impact: Initiates programs or projects based on identified business and / or tactical needs.
• Decisions impact projects or operations, affect the deadlines, resources, and funds, and the achievement of organizational objectives.
• Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, function or geography.
• Innovation and Complexity: Develops new objectives, new operating policies, products, processes and standards in support of the job function strategy.
• Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
• Communication and Influence: Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors concerning ongoing operations, programs or processes.
• Influences across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties.
• May interact on issues that have externally divergent objectives.
• Leadership and Talent Management: Manages at least one (department, function, geography typically comprised of other People or Program managers and / or supervisors and experienced professionals.
• Recommends strategies, goals and plans for a group.

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.

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