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

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
In this exciting role as a Principal Firmware Engineer, you will apply technical expertise towards developing world-class solutions using software engineering tools to solve highly complex technical problems related to surgical products.
As an experienced engineer, you will prepare plans for your work, guide, and mentor other engineers, participate in technical reviews, select the most promising concepts, implement advances in current state-of-the-art software technology, and identify opportunities for productivity and quality improvement.

As a technical leader, you will work closely with software development teams and cross-functional teams in an Agile environment (Scrum). You will ensure tests pass relative to design specifications, prepare formal documentation, and educate stakeholders regarding solutions. You will provide solutions that require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity and work is performed with minimal direction to determine technical objectives of assignments.
To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume. This is not a remote position.

Design, develop, test, and document complex software components, and applications related to surgical generators.

Lead requirements gathering, estimating, and planning efforts.
Interface with systems, and test engineers as well as quality assurance.
Troubleshoot, debug, maintain, and support existing products.
Effectively contribute to development teams.
Identify and implement process improvements.

​Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
We are looking for a highly skilled Firmware Engineer with strong expertise in C/C++ programming, Data Structures, Socket Programming, Multi-threading, DDS, and QT. As part of the Platform COE, you will work on cutting-edge technology to build high-performance, scalable, and reliable systems in a Linux environment.

•    Develop and optimize embedded and system-level applications using C/C++ in a Linux environment.
•    Design and implement Data Structures to optimize system performance and scalability.
•    Work with Socket Programming to create efficient and secure communication protocols between distributed systems.
•    Develop multi-threaded applications to maximize system throughput and responsiveness.
•    Work on DEOS (Real-Time Operating System) to ensure high reliability and real-time functionality in embedded systems.
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams within the Platform COE to deliver high-performance solutions.
•    Develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using QT for embedded or application-based systems.
•    Design and implement platform-specific software solutions for diverse hardware environments.
•    Perform unit testing, debugging, and performance analysis to identify and resolve issues.
•    Participate in code reviews and adhere to best coding practices and standards.
•    Troubleshoot and solve system-level issues in a multi-threaded, distributed environment

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelors/master’s in computer science/Electronics Engineering with 15+ years of embedded software development in resource constraint and/or low energy environments
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming for embedded systems.
• Proven experience working with microcontrollers in real-time systems.
• Experience in Peripherals like UART/SPI/QSPI/I2C/DDR
• Expertise in embedded engineering projects, including developing unit, integration, and system-level tests.
• Experience with and deep understanding of Ethernet Network development
• Experience and a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Bamboo, Jenkins
• Experience with Linux Kernel and/or FreeRTOS
• Advanced knowledge of Linux / Yocto / XILINX SDK
• Comprehensive knowledge of the CMake Build system.
• Advanced knowledge of Python
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  Good to have:
• Experience with tools like GitHub, JIRA, and Confluence
• Advanced knowledge of Python
• Hands-on experience in Docker System
• Secure bootloader, Application Encryption, and signing knowledge

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