Software Engineering Manager

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

As a Software Engineering Manager working at Medtronic, you will be a leader contributing to the Platform & Embedded Software functional area. This involves building and managing a highly engaged team of engineers to ensure that they are positioned for growth and success.

• Lead a team of engineers that design and develop Platform & Embedded Software team.
• Represent your team to the wider software organization.
• Partner with the greater R&D organization (cross functional teams)
• Build sustainable processes for product development.
• Drive best practices within your functional area.
• Remove barriers for the team.
• Participate in design reviews.
• Mentor and coach, your team members.
• Drive innovation & process and quality improvements.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering required with Minimum of 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Manage a cross functional engineering technical team size of 20 or more.
• Provide a blend of people management and technical savviness. Should have worked in matrix reporting structures with accountability on successful delivery of solutions.
• Identify the needs and prepare capabilities in the cross functional areas, SW development and verification and validation areas to foster full turnkey solution to the business.
• Provide a deep understanding of the embedded and application SW development processes (Agile, waterfall methodology) and help establish SW metrics & recommended the processes for the team.
• Experience in leading high-performance software development team(s) in the R&D environment.
• Management and/or leadership experience in platform software and real-time software development in medical device or similar regulated industry.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching software engineers, helping them improve their skills and career development.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build consensus and establish common goals.
• Experience with Windows OS, QNX (x86 and/or Arm target), Linux and/or other Real Time Operating System, including related IDEs, SDKs, and DDKs.
• Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting on targets using modern C++ 11 or greater.
• Experience in object-oriented design and design patterns.
• Understanding and appreciation of SDLC process and tools (e.g. JIRA, Bitbucket, Stash, Confluence, JAMA, Git, CMake.)
• Experience in software development in medical device industry or similar regulated industry.
• Experience in the test-driven development methodology and unit test.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/SAFe software development practices.
• Ability to distill software requirements from system requirements.
• Experience with Windows OS, QNX (x86 and/or Arm target), Linux and/or other Real Time Operating System, including related IDEs, SDKs, and DDKs.
• Experience with Transport layer communications protocols and related network experience (e.g. DDS TCP/IP, UDP, Sockets, Wireshark, etc.)
• Experience Troubleshooting, Debugging, and Root Cause Analysis techniques and tools (e.g. WinDbg, GnuDbg, others)
• Experience performing risk management analysis of software ideally using SW FMEA techniques.
• Experience working with the global/multi-development sites environment is a plus.
• Experience leading technical design activities.
• Experience leading software development process improvement activities.
• Experience in providing guidance, coaching, and training to other software engineers in the software development technologies and best practices.
• Experience or basic understanding surgical robotics 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 & 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.