We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 1 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

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that's what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.

The Medtronic Surgical Operating Unit brings together a highly engaging cross-functional and collaborative approach to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions that address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.

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 Surgical products for our customers. You will engage with stakeholders and system engineering to capture and prioritize needs and then synthesize the needs into Surgical product features.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in C++ programming language, embedded systems development, and a deep understanding of the medical device product development practices.

You will work in R&D within the Embedded software team developing software for advanced surgical medical devices.  You will extend capabilities of existing devices and drive the design for multiple new devices that are under development by our Surgical embedded software team. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing a high-performance C++ codebase for embedded systems.

• Implement and optimize clinical applications to enhance performance and reliability of embedded systems.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to port code to an embedded system and ensure the accuracy and efficiency of the code conversion.

• Optimize computation to achieve real-time processing performance on embedded platforms.

• Document code and processes to facilitate future maintenance and updates

• Design, implement, and test applications for embedded medical device

• Own design and roadmap across multiple medical devices and related product

• Optimize solutions for reliability, efficiency and performance

• Design for privacy, security and authenticity concern

• Troubleshoot and identify technical and interface issues

• Create documentation throughout the development process

• Commit to achieving and exceeding project goals and timeline

• Perform duties in compliance with the Quality System

Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical degree

• Minimum of 4 years of experience with data storage design on an embedded device, in a Linux development environment experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years experience OR PhD with 0 years experience.

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):$122,400.00 - $183,600.00

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

The following benefits and additional compens