Senior Software 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

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to design and develop embedded software across Windows, Linux, QNX, and bare-metal platforms. The role involves contributing to Windows image build/deployment, implementing real-time control software for sensors and actuators, and driving performance optimization in modern C++ (C++17/20). Candidates should bring strong expertise in OS internals, debugging complex embedded systems, and working with virtualization (KVM/QEMU). This position requires close collaboration with global, cross-functional teams and the ability to mentor junior engineers while ensuring robust, compliant, and maintainable solutions.

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

• Design and develop embedded software modules across Windows, Linux, QNX.
• Contribute to Windows production image build and deployment, including OS configuration, security patching, and validation.
• Write clean, efficient code in modern C++ (C++14 and later) and contribute to performance optimization and debugging of complex embedded systems.
• Participate in design reviews, FMEAs, and root cause analysis, ensuring robust, compliant, and maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, V&V, safety, quality, regulatory) to ensure end-to-end testability and compliance.
• Support automation efforts in build, test, and deployment using PowerShell, Python, and CI/CD tools.
• Actively contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning by sharing knowledge and mentoring junior engineers.
  
  
  

Required knowledge and experience:

• Bachelor’s or master’s in Computer science / IT/ Electronics/ Electrical Engineering.
• 8–10 years of embedded software development with minimum 4+ years’ experience in Windows Kernel and Application development.
• Understanding of Windows, Linux, QNX or other operating system operation, drivers, interfaces, and coding in these environments. Including but not limited to applications, processes, threads, handles, synchronization, drivers, virtual memory, kernel objects, performance counters, key performance indicators, performance analysis, networking, root causing, troubleshooting, and debugging in a complex multi-processor mixed OS environment.
• Experience in developing and commercializing software products in a fast-paced R&D environment, including understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices in the medical device industry, experience in providing post product support.
• Experience in object-oriented design and design patterns.
• Experience in relevant scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash)
• 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 other regulated industry is preferred.
• 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.
• 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