Medtronic
Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery.
If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be performing development, primarily in modern C++, helping to expand the services offered by our existing and new generation of devices, while ensuring the codebase is maintainable.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Work within our highly technically diverse multidisciplinary teams (application software, embedded, cloud platform, etc.).
- Contribute to the core application software by developing enhancements for our existing intra-operative devices.
- Take ownership of the maintainability and reliability of the application software in our existing intra-operative devices and helping develop the software stack for our next generation intra-operative devices.
- Maintain and enhance methods for device monitoring and cloud connectivity.
- Investigate, debug, and resolve issues reported from testing and support.
- Participate in the relevant security and regulatory compliance processes.
- Develop robust and secure-by-design software fit for a medical-grade system.
Must be able to commute frequently to London-based office; 2 days per week onsite.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- BS/MS in Computer, Electrical, Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 2 or 3 years of relevant industry experience.
- Current experience in developing high quality, high performing code in modern C++ (C++17 and higher).
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux environments.
- Experience with inter-process communication frameworks (gRPC, DDS, Zenoh etc.).
- Experience working with deployed hardware systems and remote device management.
- Experience with unit testing using methodologies like Test-Driven Development (TDD), including proficiency with testing frameworks such as Google Test (gtest) or similar tools.
- Flexible - you can independently solve problems as they arise but are comfortable asking for help when you need it.
- Comfortable with complexity – being able to think through consequences of changes in a highly interconnected ecosystem over varied use environments.
- A high level of code craftsmanship and focus on quality.
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Preferred skills include experience with GUI frameworks like React or Qt, and familiarity with regulated industries such as medical devices, automotive, finance, or aerospace. Knowledge of AWS, systems engineering principles, and core security concepts is also valued.
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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.
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- Apply only through official Medtronic channels.
- All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses.
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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.
Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:
United Kingdom: 76,800.00 GBP - 115,200.00 GBP
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
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.
We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes.
Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are.
Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
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We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work.
Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA.
Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way.
And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer.
By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
- Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
- Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
- Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
- Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
- Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
- Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
- Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.
This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here.
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