Sr. Software Engineer - 3D Visualization (OpenGL)
MedtronicAbout the role
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
As a Sr. Software Engineer - 3D Visualization (OpenGL) you will own significant features of the real-time 3D visualization at the center of every Prism Mapping procedure — the rendering of cardiac anatomy, catheter position, and electrical activity in motion.
A typical week mixes designing and extending rendering features in OpenGL and VTK, integrating them with Qt/QML application surfaces, optimizing GPU and CPU performance under real clinical workloads, and debugging the kinds of issues that only appear at full frame rate on production hardware. You'll partner with UI/UX engineers on the visual experience clinicians work in, with signals and algorithms engineers to render their outputs, and with hardware engineers when performance ties back to the underlying platform. You'll mentor newer engineers on rendering, shaders, and 3D math.
Primary Responsibilities
Own significant rendering subsystems: anatomy rendering, signal/activation overlays, catheter visualization, interactive 3D camera and selection.
Optimize the OpenGL/VTK rendering pipeline for real-time performance under realistic clinical workloads.
Drive root cause on hard rendering problems: shader bugs, GPU memory issues, frame-rate cliffs, cross-driver behavior.
Own features, components, or subsystems end-to-end.
Determine the technical approach for complex component- and subsystem-level problems with limited supervision.
Lead development across design, implementation, integration, and support for assigned areas.
Contribute to software architecture, design improvements, engineering practices, and development processes.
Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and guidance.
Collaborate effectively across software, systems, hardware, and quality in a regulated environment.
Communicate technical issues, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to team members and stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 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
Preferred Qualifications
Strong production experi
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