We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Apr 2025

 

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

Medtronic is a world leader in providing health care products that benefit individual’s well-being. The Medtronic Diabetes R&D team contributes directly to this mission; we deliver software and firmware for Medtronic’s pump and continuous glucose monitoring devices and mobile applications.  

Our business is growing significantly as the market demands reliable medical devices which look and feel more like consumer devices. We are looking for an experienced Distinguished Software Engineer to help us continue to design and make our products more advanced and responsive to patient’s needs. 

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide. 


A Day in the Life 

As a Distinguished Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for software and firmware development and will lead the design and development of various modules and interfaces in the product development programs, to ensure that patient experience is seamless across the whole platform of devices and software. The primary role for this position is architecting the high-level Software Architecture and design along with embedded and application software, and software interfaces of the overall medical device system. As part of this role, you will also coordinate technical discussions and problem solving for software projects and collaborate with the platform and system architects on the impacts of design decisions. You will coach other engineers on best practices and new technologies and review designs and architectures of the development team. You will be a key interface between the software team and other software teams and functions including participating in change control and risk analysis activities as part of the software quality process.  


Key Technical Competencies 

Expert in Software engineering best practices for medical or regulated product development. 

Expert in software engineering best practices for software design and development. 

Developing systems using Bluetooth Low Energy communication devices or protocols.  

Ensure engineering decisions are made to support overall system design. 

Interpret, understand and provide feedback on software requirements for a project. Perform requirement analysis to determine completeness and compliance with software system.  

Software modules and interface requirements definition, flow down and verification, interface design architecture at system and implementation through products 

Pursues industry best practices and technology trends. Collaborates with industry thought leaders

Recognized as a technical leader of software development methods for safety critical, fault tolerant real-time software, and current embedded system technologies

Risk management activities to identify areas where a development project must implement specific security controls and recommendations for system wide security enhancements, risk assessment and mitigation plans for market –released products

Key Leadership Competencies: 

- Coaches others on how work groups relate/interact and how their work
contributes to Medtronic's products 

- Role models adapting work process to accommodate change and ensure
productivity during times of change. 

- Sets meaningful personal goals and helps others prioritize short-term
activities around work team/functional priorities 

- Identifies the root cause of complex problems and solves them by d
etermining the most appropriate procedure to implement 

- Demonstrates accountability for one’s own decisions, and is able to articulate
rationale without being defensive. Views mistakes as learning opportunity and
supports an environment of continuous improvement. 

- Effectively solicits and shares complex information within and across work
teams, stating own point of view even when difficult or unpopular; listens
effectively 

- Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. 

- Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems
components, software tools and utilities. 

- Determines systems software design requirements. 

- Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and
monitored to increase efficiency. 

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