Medtronic Hiring For Principal Software Engineer – Surgical Innovations Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

Careers That Change Lives

Principal Embedded Software Development Engineer

Careers that Change Lives

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that’s what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.

MITG The Minimally Invasive Therapies Group strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions

SURGICAL INNOVATIONS sets the standard for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) by creating innovative surgical products and services that focus on obesity and diseases and conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, lung, abdominal wall, pelvic region, and the head and neck.

Principal software development engineer provides leadership in all phases of Software design and development of innovative products through technical planning, execution, test and evaluation. This position requires both hands on programming as well as technically leading cross functional teams, innovating new products and architectures, mentoring staff, establishing best in class software and product development practices, and meeting with medical professionals and administrators to better understand their needs and the conditions under which the products are used.

A Day in the Life

• Provide engineering expertise in cross functional teams conceiving, evaluating and developing new advanced Surgical Innovation product platforms.
• Develop solid understanding of targeted therapies, disease states, clinical applications, and use conditions to provide optimal value to doctors, clinicians and hospital staff that use the products you develop.
• Collect, analyze, and model design inputs (voice of the customer, voice of the business, etc.) and transform them into high quality stakeholder and system requirements. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
• Ensure that products meet all FDA and international requirements for medical products.
• Establish and advocate for best practices and continuous improvement to mature the software engineering knowledge and processes to be an exemplary center of excellence.
• Participate in the identification and resolution of complex technical and project execution issues through strategic engagement of staff, contractors and subject matter experts in the field.
• Lead mentor, and inspire software development teams working on a wide range of technical challenges including GUIs, data collection, data security, cybersecurity, safety, reliability, risk, usability, device management, internet of things, web based and mobile applications, and wired and wireless communications.
• Review and monitor current state of the industry, ongoing research, and new technologies.
• Propose and champion new device concepts, sit on advisory boards, and be able to present complex ideas in simple terms to executives and other staff members.

Works collaboratively with software engineers, and SW QA engineers. Flexible in working under changing and different work settings and work in different time zones changing and different work settings and work in different time zones

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications

13 plus years of experience developing Embedded software and system architectures on Real time operating system.

Demonstrated cradle to grave product life cycle development.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/ EE or equivalent

7+ yrs. experience developing software in a regulated industry such as medical (preferred), aerospace, defense etc.

Be proficient in Agile software development process.

Experience developing robust, reliable, maintainable, and testable software applications.

5+ years’ experience with C/C++ in an Embedded Linux, software architecture, Software Design Patterns

Experience in hardware/software interfacing and identifying design issues required

Experience in OOA&D and UML is strongly desired.

Superior written and verbal communication skills required.

Desired experience with Qt, SQLite, Linux Yocto, Security

Strong interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills

Participate in System design, coordination with cross functional teams and internal product management

Working knowledge of networking protocols.

Hands on experience in Embedded / Firmware Device Driver

Awareness on wireless technology is highly desirable

Experience in medical device SW development is a MUST

Eight Core Competencies: Intellectual Horsepower, Technical Ability, Team Building, Identifying and Developing Talent, Dealing with Ambiguity/Change, Manage Diverse Relationships, Organizational Ability, Comfort Around Higher Management

Nice to Have

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Hospital IT Networks, firewalls, Cloud Computing, Device Management,

MS OS’s including embedded OS’s (Architecture and Administration) maybe even Android/ iOS

Enterprise Development.

Web development, Mobile development

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• Knowledge of Embedded software, hardware, or system design, development, troubleshooting, development and test practices.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.
• Ability to work in a team environment and directly contribute to its success.

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Reports to the Software Manager for functional leadership.

Frequent interaction with Global stake holders, Software Developers, team members from other disciplines, particularly SWQA, SW V&V engineers, to help develop software, Test requirements and other project artifacts.

Possible interaction with third-party vendors, subcontractors and other users.

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.