Distinguished Software Engineer (Finance)

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Apr 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
Medtronic is a world leader in providing health care products that benefit individual's well-being. The Medtronic Diabetes R&D team contributes directly to this mission; we deliver software and firmware for Medtronic's pump and continuous glucose monitoring devices and mobile applications.

Our business is growing significantly as the market demands reliable medical devices which look and feel more like consumer devices. We are looking for an experienced Distinguished Software Engineer to help us continue to design and make our products more advanced and responsive to patient's needs.

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful. We're committed. And we're driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.

A Day in the Life

As a Distinguished Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for software and firmware development and will lead the design and development of various modules and interfaces in the product development programs, to ensure that patient experience is seamless across the whole platform of devices and software. The primary role for this position is architecting the high-level Software Architecture and design along with embedded and application software, and software interfaces of the overall medical device system. As part of this role, you will also coordinate technical discussions and problem solving for software projects and collaborate with the platform and system architects on the impacts of design decisions. You will coach other engineers on best practices and new technologies and review designs and architectures of the development team. You will be a key interface between the software team and other software teams and functions including participating in change control and risk analysis activities as part of the software quality process.

Key Technical Competencies

Expert in Software engineering best practices for medical or regulated product development.

Expert in software engineering best practices for software design and development.

Developing systems using Bluetooth Low Energy communication devices or protocols.

Ensure engineering decisions are made to support overall system design.

Interpret, understand and provide feedback on software requirements for a project. Perform requirement analysis to determine completeness and compliance with software system.

Software modules and interface requirements definition, flow down and verification, interface design architecture at system and implementation through products

Pursues industry best practices and technology trends. Collaborates with industry thought leaders

Recognized as a technical leader of software development methods for safety critical, fault tolerant real-time software, and current embedded system technologies

Risk management activities to identify areas where a development project must implement specific security controls and recommendations for system wide security enhancements, risk assessment and mitigation plans for market -released products

Key Leadership Competencies:

- Coaches others on how work groups relate/interact and how their work
contributes to Medtronic's products

- Role models adapting work process to accommodate change and ensure
productivity during times of change.

- Sets meaningful personal goals and helps others prioritize short-term
activities around work team/functional priorities

- Identifies the root cause of complex problems and solves them by d
etermining the most appropriate procedure to implement

- Demonstrates accountability for one's own decisions, and is able to articulate
rationale without being defensive. Views mistakes as learning opportunity and
supports an environment of continuous improvement.

- Effectively solicits and shares complex information within and across work
teams, stating own point of view even when difficult or unpopular; listens
effectively

- Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

- Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems
components, software tools and utilities.

- Determines systems software design requirements.

- Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and
monitored to increase efficiency.

- Generates systems software engineering policies, standards and procedures.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

Education Required:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or

related Engineering or Sciences field

Years of Experience:

• 1 5 + years of progressive embedded and software systems engineering experience in product development with a Bachelor's degree or 13 + years of progressive embedded systems engineering experience in product development with a Master's degree.

Nice to Have

• Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related Engineering field

• Embedded systems design and development experience.

• Mobile Application Design, Software Interfaces and Analysis Experience

• Experience with real time operating systems (RTOS).

• Experience with Bluetooth Low Energy and/or BLE chips and/or BLE Stacks or interfaces

• Proficiency in C, familiarity with C++ and Assembly.

• Experience in medical software development process such as IEC 62304 or other regulated software development

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

• Experience developing and characterizing RF devices

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

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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):$186,400.00 - $279,600.00

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

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

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 insurance , Health Savings Account , Healthcare Flexible Spending Account , Life insurance, Long-term disability leave , Dependent daycare spending account , Tuition assistance/reimbursement , and Simple 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 match , Short-term disability , Paid time off , Paid holidays , Employee Stock Purchase Plan , Employee Assistance Program , Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) , and Capital 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 95,000+ 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.

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 law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. ("Medtronic") in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.