Principal Firmware Engineer

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

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Design, develop, test, and document systems components, and applications related to surgical generators.
• Lead requirements gathering, estimating, and planning efforts.
• Interface with systems, and test engineers as well as quality assurance.
• Troubleshoot, debug, maintain, and support existing products.
• Effectively contributes to development teams.
• Identify and implement process improvements.

Required knowledge and experience:

• Bachelors/master’s in computer science/Electronics Engineering with 12+ years of embedded software development in resource constraint and/or low energy environments
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming for embedded systems.
• Proven experience working with microcontrollers in real-time systems.
• Experience in Peripherals like UART/SPI/QSPI/I2C/DDR
• Expertise in embedded engineering projects, including developing units, integration, and system-level tests.
• Experience with and deep understanding of Ethernet Network development
• Experience and a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Bamboo, Jenkins
• Experience with Linux Kernel and/or FreeRTOS
• Advanced knowledge of Linux / Yocto / XILINX SDK
• Comprehensive knowledge of the CMake Build system.
• Advanced knowledge of Python
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with tools like GitHub, JIRA, and Confluence
• Advanced knowledge of Python
• Hands-on experience in Docker System
• Secure bootloader, Application Encryption, and signing knowledge.

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 & 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.

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.