We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 Oct 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

Job Specific Summary
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

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve. 

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend 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.  ​

Located at the Medtronic office in the Seaport District of Boston, MA, as a SW Product Owner

You Will:

• Lead the product development efforts in the Software Center of Excellence of the Surgical Robotics Organization.

• Work with multiple stakeholders from an all-access position within the Software Engineering Center of Excellence to prioritize and define the scope of the development work.

• Work with scrum teams to develop, groom and prioritize the backlog using SAFe framework for scaled agile development.

• Collaborate closely with cross functional stakeholders including – Core teams, PMO, UX/UI, systems, hardware, and many others to define user needs and requirements.

• Work on developing next-generation instruments and platform for the Hugo Surgical Robot.

• Work in a fast-paced and highly regulated environment with a cross functional group of highly talented software developers, test engineers and quality engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and design next generation of features for the Hugo system, complete requirements definition, design, code implementation, unit test, and software and system verification and validation.  

• You will also participate in SAFe/Agile activities including but not limited to (Increment Planning, Increment Review, Feature refinement…
   etc)

Must Have:

• Bachelors Degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience or

• Advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

• Experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager of at least 3 years working on complex products.

Nice to Have:

• Experience leading multiple teams as a product owner 

• Experience leading distributed teams as a product owner 

• Formal Scrum/SAFe certification and experience 

• Experience working on hybrid HW/SW product using scaled agile framework (any) 

• Familiarity of object-oriented design and modern programming languages with preference to – C++, python, simulink. 

• Previous Hands-on experience in developing, debugging, and troubleshooting SW issues. 

• Experience in software architecture design, writing design documents, creating flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts. 

• Understanding and appreciation of SDLC process and tools (e.g. JIRA, Bitbucket, Stash, Confluence, JAMA, Git, CMake.) 

• Good understanding of software concepts and Software Development life cycle using IEC 62304. 

• Experience independently managing and prioritizing design approach to multiple projects (e.g. consultancy) or complex systems (e.g. medical systems); experience with timelines and budgeting. 
  Ability to distill software requirements from system requirements. 

• Experience in software development in medical devices industry, is a big plus. 

• Experience or basic understanding of surgical robotics is a plus. 

• Experience working with highly regulated environments 

• Experience working with medical devices