Principal Software Engineer

About Medtronic

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.

Job Summary

The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for providing Principalership in the software development of cutting-edge products used in the medical field.

Key Responsibilities

• Principal the software architecture planning, design and implementation
• Designing, developing, testing and documenting software components and applications
• Principaling requirements gathering, estimating, and planning efforts
• Promote continuous improvement through the use of tools and practices such as Agile, Scrum
• Interfacing with mechanical, electrical, systems, and test engineers
• Troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining, and supporting existing software products
• Supporting labs and surgical evaluations of products
• Participating in and Principaling on-going professional development activities
• Following Medtronic Surgical Innovations product development standards and practices
• Identifying and implementing process improvements
• Willingness and ability to assume increased responsibility
• Effectively Principaling development teams
• Occasional domestic and international travel may be required
• All activities must be performed in compliance with the Quality System
• Performs duties in compliance with environmental, health and safety related site rules, policies or governmental regulations
• Reports to the Software Manager for functional Principalership
• Frequent interaction with Global stakeholders, Software Developers, team members from other disciplines, particularly SWQA, SW V&V engineers, to develop software test requirements and other project artifacts
• Possible interaction with third-party vendors, subcontractors and other users

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/ ECE/EE or equivalent BE with 14+ years of experience in software design and development is required
• Medical Device Industry or related experience
• Expertise in Embedded C in RTOS development environment
• Working knowledge of Communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART)
• Hands on experience in Embedded / Firmware Device Driver
• Experience in hardware/software interfacing and design issues required
• Debugging experience using Logic analyzers