Principal Software Engineer

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or technically related 
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Specialized Knowledge Required 

• 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 SVG Graphic based development.
• 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/OR C/C++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.

Nice to Have: 

• 5+ years of experience in software design for medical devices
• Strong Leadership skills and mentoring capabilities
• Experience in mobile software development, ex. iOS, Android
• Experience in web based technologies, ex. HTML5, JavaScript, CSS or Cordova
• Experience in Microsoft Visual Studio development platforms/TFS/tools
• Experience in Open Source development platform/tools, ex. Eclipse
• Effectively communicate and operate within a cross-functional work environment. (Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Firmware Development, Software Development, Test Development, Manufacturing)
• Experience leading a software development team.

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 physical demands described within the Responsibilities 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. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)