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:
You will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform.

Impact patient outcomes.  Come for a job, stay for a career.

In the Surgical Robotics (SR) business, part of Medtronic’s Medical Surgical Portfolio, we believe patients around the world deserve access to quality care and improved outcomes. We strive to expand global access to care and reduce variability through robotic and analytics solutions.

SURGICAL INNOVATIONS set the standard for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) by creating innovative surgical products and services.

As a Software Engineer working at Medtronic, you will contribute to the core software that controls the motion of robotic arms and surgical instruments. You will create software solutions that run on a real-time embedded platform to deliver high-bandwidth, precise and robust response. This role will involve working with kinematics, linear algebra, and matrix manipulation, that’s developed as part of our software to translate input commands at the surgeon interface into robot and instrument motion at the bedside. In addition, this role will include developing and maintaining kinematic software that is part of our surgeon console-based training simulator, as well as a myriad of kinematic visualizer tools.

Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. 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 within the new world of medical robotics – then come join our team!

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Develop core control/kinematic software for our Hugo
• Integrate and test software designs on hardware and with the rest of the robotic platform
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of verification methods
• Partner with the greater software organization, systems engineering, and validation groups
• Define and review subsystem and software requirements
• Conduct software and product hardware-in-the-loop testing and create models and prototypes
• Act as an independent reviewer of Simulink models to ensure all software meets quality standards
• Prepare and participate in software and controller design reviews
• Contribute and participate in the documentation of the software including architecture and design detail, unit testing, anomaly tracking and reports
   

Required knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics, Controls, Automation & Robotics) and at least 4 to 7 years of relevant engineering experience OR an advanced degree and at least 3 years of relevant engineering experience
• Design, develop, and maintain kinematic control algorithms using Simulink and MATLAB/C++
• Proficient use of modeling & simulation software (MATLAB/Simulink strongly preferred)
• Familiarity with multi-body kinematics and dynamics
• Familiarity with matrix manipulation in graphical and text-based programming languages
• Experience with ROS, Unity, or other kinematics / physics simulation environments
• Signal processing experience (discrete/digital methods and algorithms)
• Experience with real-time software on microprocessor-based systems and developing software in a Linux environment
• Experience in mathematical modeling of complex systems
• Integrating mechanical and electrical hardware and software, particularly in an embedded context
• Medical product development process highly desired-regulatory processes, safety considerations, hands-on experience with medical/surgical devices/instruments
• Experience with diverse, cross functional teams; Geodiversity spanning an international environment is a bonus
• Fluency in English is required

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 90,000+ 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