Prin Software Engineer - Surgical Operating

Careers that Change Lives

​​​​​​​In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.  

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”                                                                                                           

A Day in The Life

Located in either Boston, MA, North Haven, CT, or Wessling , Germany: As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a lead contributor and mentor to a team of software engineers that develops software for driving the behavior of the Robotic Assisted Surgery platform. The software development involves creating sophisticated state machines that coordinate the behavior of multiple computing nodes based on input from users and hardware.  You will focus on the design, development, and testing of software that drives the behavior of surgical stapling and bipolar electrosurgical vessel sealing instruments.  In addition, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team of systems engineers, hardware engineers, and controls engineers to develop software requirements for the use of the Robotic Assisted Surgery platform. 

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

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to define software requirements pertaining to state machines that serve as the “brain” of the system and coordinate behavior across multiple computing nodes.
• Provide technical and professional mentorship to colleagues and provide valuable technical insight and guidance to the team.
• Rapidly design and develop software and supporting tools in MATLAB/Simulink and test your software changes on the surgical robotic system.
• Use your expertise to triage defects, develop software unit tests, and review the testing team’s software verification protocols.
• Analyze the software for failure modes and develop solutions that mitigate risk.
• Contribute updates to your team’s software documentation and architecture.
• Improve the quality of your team’s software through design reviews, and ensure your work complies with the procedures of the organization’s quality management system.
• Join an Agile Scrum team that collaboratively plans sprints, improves the quality of the team's backlog of tickets, and defines and completes tasks.