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
• 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.

• Creation & refining requirements, Software designs, test plans, and other project artifacts.

• Participates in design reviews and code inspections and will support the development of documentation required for FDA device approval.

• Participates in other quality assurance functions, including, but not limited to, process audits, static code analysis, risk/hazard analysis, and test automation development.

• 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, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment

• Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities

• Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challenge

• Meet key business KPI/project metrices.

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.

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor.
Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.

Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.
Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties.
Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.
Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.
Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Must Have

Minimum Qualification

• 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 two (2) years' experience in the Medical device/Medical IT or regulated industry.
• Strong experience in Software design and development for Embedded Real-Time systems development using modern C++ (C++ 11 and above) and Object-Oriented concepts.
• Experience in writing low-level drivers, interrupt service routines and general troubleshooting/debugging with hardware
• RTOS experience with multi-threading, IPC knowledge.
• Experience in developing Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications using tools like Qt or similar
• Knowledge and experience developing Software automation test frameworks in an embedded test environment and executing test scripts (Lua, perl, python, etc.).
• Experience working in a structured software development environment following a well-defined software development process like Agile / Lean.
• Experience with softwarerisk analysis (per ISO including software failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).

Nice to Haves

• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to handle competing priorities, agile and maintain high energy.

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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