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
Support the software development life cycle for design, implementation, build, deployment and debugging of embedded software on a medical device.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Support the software development life cycle for design, implementation, build, deployment and debugging of embedded software on a medical device.
- Hands-on experience developing and maintaining CI/CD automation processes & pipelines to enable fast, but safe delivery of embedded software to various stages.
- Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies.
- Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies.
- Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits.
- Set-up new VM based build environments, maintain existing environments and applications via configuration management such as Ansible & Terraform.
- Debug build issues for a cross-compiled, multi-target architecture based embedded product.
- Scripting expertise, can (and frequently does) write scripts from scratch in Python, bash or similar language
- Analyze technology current tech stack and tools and make recommendations for further improvements.
- Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated.
- Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements.
- Integral in assisting software team with support and operations.
- Being able to work with our partner IT organizations to fulfill our technical project goals.
Required knowledge and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree and minimum of 6 years of relevant experience. As an ideal candidate, you will have any or all the following experience:
- Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (Ubuntu, RHEL 6/7/8)
- Must be fluent with Git
- Fluent skills in object oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language, C++ highly preferred.
- Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo and Docker for automated build and deployment
- Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, etc.
- Strong grasp of Linux platform.
- Experience with containers
- Experience cross-compiling for other target architectures such as ARM as well as x86 based platforms.
- Experience with a real-time OS such as QNX.
- Familiarity with software development life cycle models, Agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
- Experience managing/monitoring virtualized servers (either on-premise or cloud) for optimal performance
- Experience working cross functionally across multiple teams.
- Ability to successfully work with internal customers, developers, testers, systems, project management, and support staff
- Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
- Experience with an embedded product build environment and tools (make, CMake, compilers, cross-compile tools, IDE's, etc)
- Experience working with the global/multi-development sites environment is a plus.
- Cybersecurity experience is desirable, designing and maintaining secure OS and applications (e.g. SSL/TLS, DTLS, TPM, Trusted/Secure Boot, Root of Trust, Authentication, Encryption, Public/Private Key, Key/Certificate Management, authenticated and secure communications protocols).
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.This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
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
