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

Careers that Change Lives
Help streamline and speed our time to market and build quality in at every step. You will be a member of the product development team that supports the design and development of innovative, new products within the Surgical Innovation business that help save lives and directly impact patient outcomes. You can apply advanced technical concepts to complex problems and see your vision realized in game changing products.

A Day in the Life
The Principal Systems Engineer will serve as the functional system architect working in the R&D engineering team that is developing Medtronic’s next generation minimally invasive surgery platform.

This Systems Engineer will contribute advanced technical systems-level expertise while collaborating with other members of the system architecture team, subsystem engineers, system test engineers and usability, human factors and clinical engineers, to devise solutions to complex engineering problems.

This Engineer will work with various subsystem function leads and project engineers in creating and refining system-level requirements, functional decompositions, and system architecture as well as regulatory compliance documentation for a system implementing advanced controls and safety functions. S/he may also collaborate with the various engineering disciplines to capture mechanical and electrical hardware designs, firmware designs, project schedules, test plans, and other project documentation through successful product launch.

Reporting to the Manager, you will create system level documentation including: Defining software behavior from user workflows, allocating performance budgets between subsystems, and defining interfaces and capturing system functional breakdown.
• Analyze system performance, evaluate options, and define system scope. Work with software Engineers to define performance requirements and assist with making time, effort, and reliability trade-offs.
• Assist in developing an architecture that insures functional safety of a complex medical device
• Participate in design reviews for multiple subsystems and contribute to technical decisions that result in a robust, safe, maintainable, serviceable and cost-effective system.
• Collaborate with lead engineers to define subsystem requirements and acceptance criteria. Work with Integration & Test team to develop Verification & Validation protocols and assess results.
Provide leadership in all phases of design and development of innovative products through technical planning, execution, test and evaluation. This position requires both hands on programming as well as technically leading cross functional teams, innovating new products and architectures, mentoring staff, establishing best in class software and product development practices, and meeting with medical professionals and administrators to better understand their needs and the conditions under which the products are used.

Provide engineering expertise in cross-functional teams conceiving, evaluating, and developing new advanced Surgical Innovation product platforms.

• Develop a solid understanding of targeted therapies, disease states, clinical applications, and use conditions to provide optimal value to doctors, clinicians and hospital staff that use the products you develop.
• Collect, analyze, and model design inputs (voice of the customer, voice of the business, etc.) and transform them into high-quality stakeholder and system requirements.  Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
• Ensure that products meet all FDA and international requirements for medical products.
• Establish and advocate for best practices and continuous improvement to mature the software engineering knowledge and processes to be an exemplary center of excellence.
• Participate in the identification and resolution of complex technical and project execution issues through strategic engagement of staff, contractors, and subject matter experts in the field.  
• Lead mentored, and inspired software development teams working on a wide range of technical challenges including GUIs, data collection, data security, cybersecurity, safety, reliability, risk, usability, device management, internet of things, web-based and mobile applications, and wired and wireless communications. 
• Review and monitor the current state of the industry, ongoing research, and new technologies.
• Propose and champion new device concepts, sit on advisory boards, and be able to present complex ideas in simple terms to executives and other staff members.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• A Bachelor's Degree and 18+ years of relevant experience.
• A master’s degree with 11 Plus years of relevant experience
• 13 plus years of experience developing Embedded software and system architectures on Real-time operating systems.
• MANDATORY - 5 Years of Experience in FDA regulatory and Medical Devices product launch & MDR Remediation Support
• Demonstrated cradle-to-grave product life cycle development by working closely with cross-functional software, mechanical, hardware, reliability, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/ EE or equivalent
• 7+ yrs. Experience developing software in a regulated industry such as medical (preferred), aerospace, defense, nuclear, etc.
• Be proficient in the Agile software development process.
• Experience developing robust, reliable, maintainable, and testable software applications. 
• 5+ years’ experience with C/C++ in an Embedded Linux, software architecture, Software Design Patterns
•  Experience in hardware/software interfacing and identifying design issues required
• Experience in OOA&D and UML is strongly desired.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills required.
• Desired experience with Qt, SQLite, Linux Yocto, and Security
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills
• Participate in System design, coordination with cross-functional teams, and internal product management
• Working knowledge of networking protocols.
• Hands-on experience in Embedded / Firmware Device Driver
• Experience in medical device SW development is a MUST
  Nice to Have
• MS OS’s including embedded OS’s (Architecture and Administration) maybe even Android/ iOS
• Enterprise Development

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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