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

The Principal Embedded Software Engineer role carries strong leadership expectations, including influencing platform and design decisions, ensuring software solutions meet performance, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle, and mentoring engineers.

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Our Purpose 

The Physiological Sensing R&D team is dedicated to the end-to-end development, continuous advancement, and clinical validation of innovative monitoring technologies that measure, interpret, and leverage physiological signals to improve patient outcomes. Their expertise spans anesthesia and depth of sedation monitoring, respiratory monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, and the integration of predictive algorithms and clinical decision support solutions. By focusing on non-invasive, real-time technologies, they empower clinicians with actionable insights in surgery, critical care, and other high-risk settings.

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A Day in The Life Of:

The Principal Embedded Software Engineer role carries strong leadership expectations, including influencing platform and design decisions, ensuring software solutions meet performance, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle, and mentoring engineers.

• Leads embedded software development activities for product development and research applications across physiologic monitoring systems and subsystems, such as pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, EEG based devices, and other sensing technologies.

• Define software technical direction, design patterns, and architectural standards aligned with system requirements and long-term platform strategies.

• Collaborates closely with systems, hardware, algorithm, and test engineering partners, and translates complex clinical and system requirements into robust, real‑time embedded software solutions.

• Translate clinical, system, and regulatory requirements into reliable, real time embedded software solutions.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, hardware, algorithm, test, and quality engineers to ensure cohesive and testable product designs.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for implementation of critical software components, including real time operating systems, device drivers, middleware, and application logic.

• Review software designs, code, and test results to ensure robustness, performance, safety, and maintainability.

• Serve as a technical authority for embedded software, resolving complex, ambiguous, or cross-cutting technical issues.

• Mentor and technically guide engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and problem-solving activities without formal people management responsibilities.

• Promote best practices for embedded software development, including coding standards, version control, documentation, and secure development practices.

Key Skills & Experience  

• Requires Minimum NFQ level 8 degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.

• Deep expertise in embedded software architecture and development for real time, safety critical systems, including strong proficiency in C/C++ and embedded development tools.

• Extensive experience working with real time operating systems (RTOS), device drivers, middleware, and low-level hardware interfaces.

• Proven ability to define software architecture, design patterns, and technical direction for complex embedded systems and platforms.

• Experience developing software for regulated products; familiarity with IEC 62304 medical device software lifecycle practices and standards preferred.

• Strong understanding of software verification and validation, including unit testing, integration testing, and system level testing strategies.

• Experience collaborating closely with hardware, systems, algorithm, and test engineers to deliver integrated, high-quality solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex, ambiguous, or cross cutting technical challenges spanning multiple subsystems.

• Proficiency with version control, configuration management, and continuous integr