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 LifeThe Principal Engineer will be a member of the Engineering R&D team working on the development and support of medical devices. He\She work closely with other members of the engineering staff and key stakeholders to provide technical solutions to engineering problems in critical care patient monitoring product development. Principal Engineer will own architecture, design, technical reviews in software development and contribute to design artifacts, software design, software code, test plans, and other project artifacts.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned
- Works independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans for job area
- Assignments are often self - initiated
- Owns the product and is the go-to person for technical solution
- Demonstrates technical leadership in product development
- Primary technical contact for the team
- Resolves ambiguous requirements working with cross functional teams and guides team to derive
- Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership
- Strongly influences the design of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans
- Problems that span a wide range of difficulty and unique issues across functions and/ or business which may cause redirection
- Submits invention disclosures to protect IP and helps the team in achieving their goals on research.
- Interacts with internal and external customers and vendors at various level including executive leadership.
- Functions well in a Virtual team environment and be a role model for all engineers.
- Generates high-quality work products.
- Evaluates and introduces new tools and technologies to improve
Required knowledge and Experience
- Strong Object-Oriented application Architecture, Design and development experience C,C++, Python, C#, Windows .Net
- Experience in developing applications on Ubuntu, Windows is essential.
- Experience in developing at least one NPD end to end
- Experience with projects that require hardware /software interfacing solutions
- Demonstrated knowledge in computer science such as data structure design, architecture design, and algorithm in Computer Science fundamentals (e.g., algorithms and data structures)
- Demonstrated understanding of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
- Experience in using software development tools, such as version control, IDEs, compilers, interpreters, debuggers, continuous integration, etc.
- Experience in biomedical applications is a plus
- Good understanding of multithreading in both, design and implementation
- Candidate should be knowledgeable and have experience in software engineering processes and software life-cycle in general.
- Experience with a documented software development processes or familiarity with FDA and ISO standards like IEC 62304 is a plus
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.
Benefits & CompensationMedtronic 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.
About MedtronicWe 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 90,000+ 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.
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