We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 Jul 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

Medtronic strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions. The Robotic Surgical Technologies Business Unit set the standard for Robotically Assisted Surgery (RAS) by creating innovative surgical products and services that focus on surgical procedures of diseases and conditions.  
Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”   

In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html 

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. 

A Day in The Life

As a Software Manager working at Medtronic, you will be a leader contributing to the controls software functional area. This involves building and managing a highly engaged team of engineers to ensure that they are positioned for growth and success.  

• Lead a team of engineers that design and develop feedback control loop algorithms, and controls software for robotic manipulators and surgical instruments
• Represent your team to the wider software organization
• Partner with the greater R&D organization (quality, systems, etc.)
• Build sustainable processes for product development
• Drive best practices within your functional area
•  Remove barriers for the team
• Participate in design reviews
• Mentor and coach your team members

 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10 years of relevant experience, or
• Advanced degree with 8 years of relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• Applied controls and traditional robotics (rigid-linked manipulators) knowledge.
• Mechanical engineering or mechanical system modeling/physics experience.
•  Experience managing full product development cycle for software, from concept through to release and maintenance.
•  Knowledge for how to manage teams in a large organization, especially at multiple locations and remotely.
• Great communication skills: Strong ability to coordinate people and teams around unstructured challenges and moving project priorities.
• Knowledge of software development workflow.  Not necessarily a former developer but need to understand the process and expectations.
• Experience building models with Simulink, especially real time control systems.
• Knowledge of robotics, specifically medical robotics, or other capital equipment medical devices.
• Knowledge of medical device development process: 60601, 13485, 62304.   

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. 

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