Senior 3D UI/UX Software Engineer - Newton, MA
Medtronic aims to contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. To recognize the personal worth of all employees, Medtronic provides an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success. If you consider joining the team and you are committed to do a meaningful work, make a difference, and improve lives, you will find a culture of collaboration and innovation at Medtronic. We offer competitive pay, bonuses, and benefits supporting your work-life balance.
*This position would sit onsite at our Newton, MA office (320 Nevada St # 401, Newton, MA 02460) with potential to work a hybrid schedule.
In the role of a Senior UI/UX Software Engineer for the Affera Mapping and Ablation System, you will be joining a growing software engineering team whose mission is to develop and deliver the next generation of cardiac ablation systems used to treat various cardiac arrhythmias.
The Affera Mapping System comprises of 3D visualization software used for mapping of electrical activity in the heart, navigation of catheters within the heart chambers, streaming intra cardiac and surface lead electrograms and annotation of 3D and 2D data points. The Mapping System integrates with the Affera Ablation System to record ablation telemetry and annotate in 3D regions where energy delivery was applied.
A Day in the Life
The Senior UI/UX Software Engineer will be an integral member of the Mapping & Navigation Software Team working with the recently acquired Affera technology. This is a unique opportunity to participate in the development of an industry disrupting technology within the electrophysiology field. The ideal candidate has a passion for creating beautiful modern user interfaces and strives to provide an engaging and best in class experience for the end user. In addition, the candidate should have extensive experience developing and testing user interface elements for real-time high-performance visualization applications, can take ownership of key software features while working collaboratively with other engineering teams, and is passionate about working on a product that will have a positive impact on the lives of millions.
Primary Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI designers and medical professionals to gather requirements and to deliver usable, responsive, and streamlined user interfaces and user experience.
- Extend the software architecture to interface with other Medtronic or external products, incorporating new user interface controls where necessary.
- Apply best practices in software development to maintain high-quality code.
- Understand physician needs and develop new innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Create and update automated testing and continuous integration systems where necessary as software team requirements evolve.
- Document and maintain software specifications and design guidelines.
- Attend and participate in pre-clinical in-vivo system evaluations.
- Participate in laboratory demonstrations for internal stakeholders and clinicians.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience programming in Python, with strong object-oriented programming skills
- Proficiency with development of software on Linux operating system
- Fluency in C++
- Experience with a native UI framework such as Qt and QML
- Ability to work in an agile development environment
- Strong work ethic and entrepreneurial drive
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)
