Software Engineering Manager

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.

As a Engineering Manager working at Medtronic, you will be a leader contributing to the Software Verification and Validation functional area. This involves building and managing a highly engaged team of engineers to ensure that they are positioned for growth and success.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Lead a team of engineers of Software Verification and Validation
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including design engineers, project managers, and quality assurance teams, to ensure seamless integration of verification and validation activities into the overall development process.
• Possess strong technical leadership skills to guide, and mentor team of engineers involved in the Software verification and validation process.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the verification and validation process.
• Shall effectively communicate with internal teams and external stakeholders, providing technical insights and updates on verification and validation progress.
• Participate in the documentation, communication, and review of undesirable test outcomes, and/or design enhancements, and determine impact of changes to test plans.
• Represent your team to the wider software organization.
• Partner with the greater R&D organization (quality, systems, etc.)
• Build sustainable processes for product development.
• Drive best practices within your functional area.
• Remove barriers for the team.
• Participate in design reviews.
• Mentor and coach, team members
• Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move your career forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.
• If you are a pioneer and would like to have a big impact into the new world of medical robotics – then come join our team

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree required with Minimum of 15+ years of relevant experience
• Manage a cross functional engineering technical team size of 15+.
• Provide a blend of people management and technical savviness. Should have worked in matrix reporting structures with accountability on successful delivery of solutions.
• Demonstrated expertise in software test automation, including strategy, design, and implementation.
• Proficiency in an object-oriented language Advanced C++/C#.
• Experience in gtest/gmock
• Experience in CMake ,Git
• Strong proficiency in Python programming for test automation, scripting, and tool development.
• Experience with one or more: TDD, Unit Test, continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience with distributed real-time software.
• Experience performing risk management analysis of software (e.g. SW FMEA).
• Familiarity with real-time operating systems such as QNX.
• Deep understanding in product development processes & regulations (ex: ISO 13485, ISO Design controls for medical device development to coach and guide the technical leads is expected.
• Identify the needs and prepare capabilities in the cross functional areas, SW development and verification and validation areas to foster full turnkey solution to the business.
• Provide a deep understanding of the embedded and application SW development processes (Agile, waterfall methodology) and help establish SW metrics & recommend the processes for the team.
• Experience with validation of test methods, hard and software, test fixtures.
• Knowledge of principles and applications of biomechanics, physics, mechatronics, and electrical, mechanical and software development.
• Solid understanding of Design Controls, Medical Device Design Verification, and GDP (Good Documentation Practices)
• Knowledge of how to manage teams in a large organization, especially at multiple locations and remotely.
• Great communication skills: Strong ability to coordinate people and teams around unstructured challenges and moving project priorities.
• Fluency in English
• Medical robotics, medical capital equipment, or highly regulated industry experience
• Software architecture and model-based development best practices
• Reports to Associate Engineering Director / Engineering Director
• Accountable to Project Manager(s) for project-related responsibilities
• Frequent interaction with team members from other disciplines, 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.