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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.


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 embedded software engineer and Bluetooth Low Energy expert who can help us continue to make our products more connected and responsive to patient’s needs.

As a Sr. Principal Embedded Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for software and firmware development. The primary role for this position is writing the high level embedded software interacting both with low level embedded software interfacing with electronics as well as other devices 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.

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.
• Generates systems software engineering policies, standards and procedures.
• May work across a variety of software lifecycle activities as determined by program needs.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive embedded systems engineering experience in product development with a Bachelor’s degree
• or 8+ years of progressive embedded systems engineering experience in product development with a Master’s degree

Key Technical Competencies

• Expert in software engineering best practices for embedded software development
• Developing systems using Bluetooth Low Energy communication protocols
• Writing software or interfaces making use of different BLE stacks
• Interpret, understand and provide feedback on software requirements for a project. Perform requirement analysis to determine completeness and compliance with software system. Ability to work with requirement management tools
• Pursues industry best practices and technology trends. Collaborates with industry thought leaders
• Recognized as the organization’s leader in applying new technology. Provides vision and assures the organization is an early adopter of industry innovations
• Recognized as a technical leader of software development methods for safety critical, fault tolerant real-time software, and current embedded system technologies

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 determining 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