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

Careers that Change Lives 

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: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html

Impact patient outcomes.  Come for a job, stay for a career.

In the Surgical Robotics (SR) business, part of Medtronic’s Medical Surgical Portfolio, we believe patients around the world deserve access to quality care and improved outcomes. We strive to expand global access to care and reduce variability through robotic and analytics solutions. SURGICAL INNOVATIONS set the standard for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) by creating innovative surgical products and services.

A Day in the Life

Located in the Medtronic office in either the Seaport District in Boston, MA or North Haven, Connecticut. The Senior Software Engineer will work within the Medtronic R&D engineering team to develop and support software tools for the Surgical Robotic program. The software tools that you will create will be used in support of operations, field service, R&D and the Software Test organization. These software tools will interact with hardware devices such as robotic arms, actuators, sensors, GPIO devices, microcontrollers and other networked devices.

Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move your career forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

You Will:

• Design and create software tools for a robotic minimally invasive surgical system utilizing best software development practices

• Produce high quality node.js and C++ code consistent with the written design

• Produce documentation describing the design and provide engineering support for software validation.

• Participate in reviews of the requirements, design, implementation and tests to ensure that all software meets quality standards.

• Analyze unexpected, undesirable, or non-understood behavior in software and in interactions of software with hardware

• Document results of defect analysis

• Follow the ISO 62304 standard and project documents such as the software development plan and coding standards

Qualifications

Must have: Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent technical discipline

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

• Strong coding skills in C/C++ (including object-oriented techniques) required

• Strong coding skills in node.js required.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Agile software development processes

• Experience in Linux and Windows application programming and scripting.

• Experience in a regulated industry (medical device or avionics) is preferred.

• Experience with QNX or other real time operating system desired

• RTI DDS and other common networking protocols a plus

• Basic understanding of standard OS features (e.g. threading and concurrency, memory management, device drivers, I/O, etc.) is strongly preferred

Working Conditions: 

Work-from-Home and Standard Office setting in Boston, MA. Some limited travel may be required.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Physical Job Requirements

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