Careers that Change Lives

In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.  

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”

A Day in the Life

This position is at the junction of user experience and software engineering, applying deep technical expertise to realize challenging design goals.  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. Bring architectural/design concepts into the product design, including object-oriented (OO) concepts as appropriate. Creative problem-solving to realize complex design goals. Use best practices to create maintainable and scalable code, 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. Focus on software reliability with the appropriate level of design and test activities Validation and deployment Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools and utilities. Must Have: Minimum Requirements
Bachelors degree required Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience
Nice to Have 2+ years of software engineering experience in the medical device industry Experience developing full-stack software applications Experience with object-oriented techniques on embedded systems Experience graphics libraries (such as WPF, Winforms, LVGL, GTK3, QT) Strong C and C++ knowledge/experience Experience with software development in a highly regulated environment (like medical devices/defense/aviation etc.) Experience with microprocessor, microcontroller architectures and assembly language Experience working with signal processing platforms and/or interfacing with analog circuitry Development of software compliant with coding standards such as ANSI and MISRA Experience with scripting languages such as Shell, Python, Perl Demonstrated ability to quickly interpret technical information and quickly resolve issues Experience with developing APIs and applications that utilize them 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

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

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 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, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)