Controls Software Engineer II

Qualifications

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree and 4 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree and 2 years experience.

Nice to Have:

Experience with control design including:

•            Familiarity with multi-body kinematics and dynamics

•            Knowledge and experience in multi-variable and optimal control

•            Design of position, velocity, and torque feedback controllers

•            Implementing and tuning of high-performance feedback control in software

•            Signal processing experience (discrete/digital methods and algorithms)

•            Proficient use of modeling & simulation software (Matlab/Simulink preferred)

•            Demonstrated skills in managing priorities

•            Experience working with multiple teams on concurrent, interdependent projects

•            Experience with real-time software on microprocessor-based systems. 

•            Experience developing in a Linux environment (Ubuntu preferred)

•            Integrating hardware and software, particularly in an embedded context.

•            Fluency in English is required (German a plus)

Experience with relevant technologies including:

•            Mechatronics

•            Working knowledge of design and development of complex electromechanical systems

•            Mechanical engineering (particularly high-accuracy motor-controlled mechanisms)

•            Electrical engineering (particularly networked / embedded computing elements)

•            Sensors and actuators

•            Previous experience with robotics and multi-DOF kinematic chains

•            Redundant and safety-critical systems

•            Force and tactile feedback

•            Surgical devices/instruments

Nice to have:

• Experience in implementing fast control loops, particularly those involving motors and sensors.

• Comfortable with common development tools:  environments, compilers, build management software, debugging and source control tools, etc.

• Comfortable debugging hardware/software challenges.

• Medical product development highly desired-regulator processes, safety considerations, hands-on experience with medical/surgical devices/instruments.

• Experience with a big company with matrix structures, having already worked with cross functional teams within an international environment.

• In depth knowledge and application of investigative research and analysis.

• Basic understanding of medical device industry, clinical use of product and competitor products.

   

  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.

   

  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.  The physical demands described within the Day in the Life section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

   

  EEO

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