We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 Nov 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

Transforming Patient Management with Smart Technology!

Medtronic is a world leader in providing health care products that restore health and extend life. 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.

Our business is growing significantly as the market demands reliable medical devices which look and feel more like consumer devices. We are looking for software test engineers who can help us continue to make devices more robust and reliable for our patients.

The best candidates will be engineers. That is, critical thinkers who solve problems efficiently, pragmatically and continually seek information from all sources. Strong relationship skills are a must, as is excellent verbal and written communication.

Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. This is a unique opportunity to apply your best technical innovation, problem solving and leadership skills to improving how people live their lives every day.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

This role requires you to work on-site at our Northridge, CA office at least 3 days per week.

A strong candidate will have skills to:

• Work closely with software development, product engineering, product marketing, quality and the systems teams to ensure the product works properly from end-to-end, both pre- and post-release.
• Utilize test automation frameworks for both software and hardware in the loop testing.
• Develop test scripts using some of the following languages: C++, Javascript, or Python etc.

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

• Designs, develops, debugs, and implements software test frameworks and test scripts.
• Determines required level of testing based on software requirements.
• Develop test designs and protocols in accordance with regulatory environments.
• Partner with software development as part of sprint development.
• Coordinate test activities with our vendor partners.
• Work in an agile/scrum environment.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in software testing or software development with a bachelor's degree in engineering or sciences.
• Or, master's degree in engineering or sciences.

Nice to Have

• Experience in mobile BLE communication on embedded or IoT devices
• Experience developing automated test tools for commercial software products
• Experience coordinating with remote teams
• Experience working in a regulated industry
• Strong attention to detail
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivated, driven to meet objectives

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 requi