We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 8 Jul 2026

 

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 Senior Embedded Software/Firmware Engineer, you will have responsibility for architecting, designing, and implementing embedded software that maximizes the value of our Patient Monitoring products for our customers. You will engage with stakeholders and system engineering to capture and prioritize needs and then synthesize the needs into oximetry features and products.

Medtronic aims to contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. In order to recognize the personal worth of all employees, Medtronic provides an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success. If you consider joining the team and you are committed to do a meaningful work, make a difference, and improve lives, you will find a culture of collaboration and innovation at Medtronic. Starting the road to your rewarding career with Medtronic will come with competitive pay, bonuses, and benefits supporting your work-life balance.

This is an onsite role located at our Lafayette, CO campus

         

         

In this role:

• You will architect, design, develop, test, document, and maintain embedded systems using mixed-signal MCUs for patient monitoring platforms
• You will apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the embedded system development life cycle to support the generation of such engineering applications and wide range of products.
• You may engage with internal and external stakeholders, including interfacing with clinicians, customers, and KOLs, to better understand use environments and needs.
• You will apply a thorough understanding of technologies used to measure physiological signals and knowledge of human physiology to inform product design decisions, prioritize design tradeoffs, provide strategic input on the development pathway, and ensure alignment with use cases/use scenarios.  

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering or related engineering/science degree with a minimum 4 years of relevant experience or Master's Degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.
• Must have demonstrated experience of embedded software design and implementation. 
• You must be able to work in a team environment both locally and globally.

Nice to Have

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering
• Medical device development experience, design control, FDA and MDR regulations
• Experience in embedded software development following IEC 62304
• Experience utilizing AI for software and unit test development
• Digital circuit design knowledge
• Experience developing embedded solutions in embedded C
• Experience with unit test development, DevOps, and Python
• Demonstrated skills in “systems thinking” – ability to consider problems, implementations, and impacts at a higher system level
• Experience implementing safety risk management including SFMEAs and cybersecurity risk management

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) 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. 

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 comm