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** The Cardiovascular Group brings all our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions. As the Device Managers Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will be reporting to the leader (Associate Director) of the Device Managers R&D organization. You will play a high impact role as a technical specialist, leading complex, enterprise scale software initiatives across the full development lifecycle. You will architect, configure, and implement cardiac rhythm management therapy related application systems—designing advanced modules, developing solution strategies, building external interfaces, and maintaining end to end technical documentation. You independently resolve complex technical challenges, drive integration and testing quality, and mentor junior engineers while shaping engineering practices across teams. You will advance new technologies and systems from concept through implementation, collaborate with global stakeholders, and ensure that solutions align with organizational standards, regulatory expectations, and Medtronic’s broader innovation strategy. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned** + Provide architectural and technical leadership across products and platforms, ensuring alignment with Medtronic’s system and enterprise architecture. + Drive design, development, and verification of high-integrity software for Class II and III medical devices, meeting clinical, regulatory, and performance standards. + Apply expert knowledge of medical device standards (IEC 62304, ISO 13485, cybersecurity), and enforce compliant engineering practices. + Define system-level software requirements and architectures, review key design artifacts, and ensure technical quality and maintainability. + Solve complex cross-functional problems using advanced principles and creative solutions; evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and technologies. + Lead process improvement initiatives and promote best practices across teams. + Own critical module and framework development spanning embedded, client/server, mobile, web, and cloud interfaces, ensuring robustness, security, and interoperability. + Influence strategy and roadmaps with architects, product leaders, and R&D partners while mentoring engineers across levels. + Lead by influence across scrum teams and geographies, ensuring technical clarity and consistency. Promote reusable frameworks and patterns to boost agility and velocity. + Stay informed on industry trends to keep products modern, secure, and competitive. **Required Knowledge and Experience** + Experience in software design for medical devices. + Hands on experience in developing implantable System Software components related to data acquisition, Real Time Data processing and data presentation. + Experience in defining control system state machine for processing real time data and synchronizing real time data across different inputs. + Applying industry standard best practices to develop system software complying to security requirements to ensure patient privacy and safety. + Experience in developing Firmware and Device Drivers for embedded peripherals. + Experience in developing simulators for simulating implantable device behavior through design patterns and architecture patterns. + Hands on experience in Blue Tooth enabled device communication. + Hands on experience in Mobile Operating System apps development targeted at Class III Medical Systems. + Strong oral and written communication skills + Experience with configuration management tools + Proficiency working in a team environment + Demonstrated skills in writing engineering documents (specifications, project plans, etc) + Strong programming skills in C#, .NET and Strong knowledge of software design, development, debug and test practices + Apply best practices to develop software that’s driven by test first approach. + Create automation protocols to test complex software stack for behavior and coverage. + Provide design guidance for designing Networking Services (Web Services, SOAP and REST services) for communicating over TCP / UDP between Tablet and external Servers. + Perform thorough analysis and synthesis of data at hand to apply relevant software engineering algorithms to provide best user experience for real time data representation. + Should be able to design systems that comply to object oriented design patterns for scalability and extensibility. + Should be able to analyze system requirements, map them to sub system requirements , create design and design artifacts using UML diagrams, provide traceability into Requirements, + Should be able to understand Operating System thread priorities, thread scheduling concepts and apply those concepts to realize efficient and optimal flow of data through the system for real time data processing. + Apply software engineering principles for requirement analysis, requirement prioritization, life cycle models such as waterfall, Agile. + Should be able to understand Web Based applications design , remote procedure calls and distributed computing and apply those concepts to Product development. + Should be able to understand concepts of relational data base management, normalization of tables, and design well normalized data base tables. + Should be able to understand Socket communication and design/development of applications involving socket communication across process boundaries. + Should be able to perform build system management through thorough understanding of compiler optimization, compiler design. + B.E/BTech.in Computer Science Engineering and 17+ years of experience (or ME/MTech in computers science and 15+ years) Nice to Haves + Experience in software design for medical devices + Demonstrated skills in writing engineering documents (specifications, etc.) + Experience with configuration management tools + Experience with Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development + Experience in Open Source development platform/tools + Ability to consistently perform well during times of increased work load + Ability to work on cross-functional project teams comprised of software verification and development engineers, system engineers, human factor engineers and quality engineers. + Design/test experience working within a regulated environment. + Working Knowledge of DRM, Six-Sigma principles **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 (http://www.medtronic.com) 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. **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. 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