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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights thats what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.

The Medtronic Surgical Operating Unit brings together a highly engaging cross-functional and collaborative approach to employ the full breadth of our talent technologies products services and solutions that address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.

In this exciting role as a Principal Embedded Software/Firmware Engineer you will have responsibility for architecting designing and implementing embedded software that maximizes the value of our Surgical products for our customers. You will engage with stakeholders and system engineering to capture and prioritize needs and then synthesize the needs into Surgical product features.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in C programming language embedded systems development and a deep understanding of the medical device product development practices.

You will work in R&D within the Embedded software team developing software for advanced surgical medical devices. You will extend capabilities of existing devices and drive the design for multiple new devices that are under development by our Surgical embedded software team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing a high-performance C codebase for embedded systems.
• Implement and optimize clinical applications to enhance performance and reliability of embedded systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to port code to an embedded system and ensure the accuracy and efficiency of the code conversion.
• Optimize computation to achieve real-time processing performance on embedded platforms.
• Document code and processes to facilitate future maintenance and updates
• Design implement and test applications for embedded medical device
• Own design and roadmap across multiple medical devices and related product
• Optimize solutions for reliability efficiency and performance
• Design for privacy security and authenticity concern
• Troubleshoot and identify technical and interface issues
• Create documentation throughout the development process
• Commit to achieving and exceeding project goals and timeline
• Perform duties in compliance with the Quality System

Must Have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with data storage design on an embedded device in a Linux development environment experience OR Masters degree with a minimum of 5 years experience OR PhD with 3 years experience.

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. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$148000.00 - $222000.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience certification/education market conditions and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.