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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 onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

Medtronic Tempe Campus (MTC), is looking for a Principal Automation Software Engineer to work in the Software Automation team to support Manufacturing Operations. An ideal candidate for this position will be a self-motivated individual with a thorough understanding of current manufacturing automation software. The candidate must have strong problem solving and analytic skills in addition to excellent written and oral communication competencies.

Test and visual inspection automation provides technical ownership and leadership for traceability workflow applications at the Tempe campus. This role stabilizes critical manufacturing acceptance systems and leads the transition from legacy tools to next-generation, enterprise-aligned solutions.

         

         

Business Impact

Ensures stable ownership of critical software, reduces operational risk and downtime, and enables scalable, enterprise-aligned digital manufacturing solutions at the Tempe site.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as technical owner for software automaton supporting manufacturing acceptance test and visual inspection stations. 

• Provide expert-level support for production-critical issues.

• Lead application enhancements, migrations, and modernization efforts driven by user needs, instrumentation and infrastructure changes.

• Partner with business stakeholders to perform automation application updates, manage technical risk, and coordinate releases.

• Establish and maintain required SDLC documentation, testing, and release.

 

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant Software Engineering experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant Software Engineering experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant Software Engineering experience.

 

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have):

• Proficiency in National Instruments LabView and TestStand is strongly preferred to be successful in this role.
• Strong knowledge of the full Software Development Life Cycle (requirements, design, testing, release).
• Experience with multiple modern and legacy Windows Operating Systems
• Proven ability to support production systems in a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience in medical device manufacturing or other regulated industries.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications.
• Familiarity with manufacturing traceability systems.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.