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

Careers that Change Lives Medtronic is the largest global medical device company in the world. At Medtronic, making global healthcare better is our priority. Beyond the Medtronic mission to alleviating pain, restoring health, extending lives, we partner to create seamless, more efficient care.

Learn how we’re taking healthcare Further, Together at Medtronic.com.

You will be a member of the technology and product development team within the Acute Care and Monitoring (ACM) business. Specifically, you will join a high growth R&D team, dedicated to creating category redefining products for airway management. Our team originated from Medtronic’s acquisition of Aircraft Medical, which created the McGrath Mac Video Laryngoscope (see photo). The team is designer-led and follows a human-centered design process to deliver thoughtful and inspiring products that truly address unmet costumer needs.

You will work in a cooperative workspace with key, cross functional partners. Every day, you’ll be rubbing elbows with designer, design researchers, clinical scientists, marketers, engineers with multiple disciplines and manufacturing experts all with a “can do, will do” spirit.

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

A Day in the Life

This position applies technical expertise combining software and hardware in solving complex technical problems and provides solutions that require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity. Work is performed in a team setting with the guidance of a principal software lead. The role will collaborate with cross-function team members including software, hardware, mechanical and systems engineers.

Responsibilities Include:

• Work with the software lead to define project goals and deliverables
• Responsible for successfully delivering on project objectives and milestones
• Creative problem solving and working through complexity with a wider team
• Use best-practices to create maintainable and scalable code and be able to communicate concepts to team members
• Generate Deliverables (including documentation) to support IEC 62304, ISO14971 and ISO13485 requirements
• Assist the effort to elicit and create software requirements
• Participate in the design of software validation tests and execution of same
• Ensure the timely creation and execution of unit tests, integration tests and code reviews
• Focus on software reliability with the appropriate level or design and test activities
• Creation of new and maintenance of existing custom software tools
  • Gathering of tool requirements
  • Development of scalable architecture
  • Validation and deployment

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree and background in Software/Computer/Electrical Engineering

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong C and C++ knowledge/experience
• Demonstrated ability to quickly interpret an extensive variety of technical information and find resolution to an issue quickly.
• Experience with software development for embedded systems
• Understanding of version control systems and configuration management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn and apply new technology in areas of responsibility.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with real-time software on a microprocessor- based system and developing software in Linux environment
• Experience embedded graphics programming libraries (such as LVGL, GTK3, or QT)
• Experience with driver development or maintenance
• Experience with software development in a highly regulated environment (like medical devices/defense/aviation etc.)
• Experience with microprocessor, microcontroller architectures and assembly language.
• Experience with python and shell scripting
• Experience with communication interfaces such as serial, USB, I2C, SPI

About Medtronic

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

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. 

The physical demands described within the Day in the Life section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EEO

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here:  https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$95,200.00 - $142,800.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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