Principal Embedded Software Engineer
Careers that Change Lives
Are you interested in developing embedded systems for the operating room? Do you like the challenge of optimizing performance for novel edge devices? Do you enjoy working with a dynamic team with a technically diverse skill set? Is the challenge of making software in the field reliable and maintainable something that excites you?
Digital Surgery creates products to allow surgical teams to securely record and analyze their performance. As a Senior or Principal Application Engineer in the Devices team, you’ll be helping expand the feature-set of our existing devices while ensuring the codebase is maintainable, allowing us to continue to deliver the next generation of surgical technology. We’re looking for an approachable personality who can reach across disciplines to deliver value.
Day in the Life
- Work within our highly technically diverse multidisciplinary teams (application software, embedded, computer vision, cloud platform, etc.)
- Support the development and productization of our custom computing devices, medical devices, and other devices for the hospital operating rooms
- Drive collaboration with our hardware team to build and maintain compatible kernels/drivers for our hardware platforms.
- Architect, develop, test, and debug system services and hardware-dependent software applications.
- Coordinate and conduct code reviews for embedded software.
- Contribute to the software infrastructure to ensure seamless software deployments.
- Participate in the relevant security and regulatory compliance processes.
- Develop robust and secure-by-design software fit for a medical-grade system.
- Perform formal risk analysis activities, develop software mitigations, run verification. tests and participate in design transfer to manufacturing activities.
Must Haves
- BS/MS in Computer, Electrical, Electronics Engineering or equivalent
- Extensive experience working with Linux device drivers, tinkering with the Linux kernel and device trees.
- Extensive experience with varied Linux system components such as kernels, services, log management, rules, etc.
- Excellent networking knowledge
- Expert C/C++ and shell scripting knowledge
- Experience working with custom Linux build systems (Yocto/Buildroot etc)
- Experience in system bring-up and hardware integration
- Experience with over-the-air update mechanisms for embedded systems.
- Strong knowledge of security concepts (e.g. hardware root of trust, cryptographic key generation and usage) and fundamental knowledge of Linux diagnostic/benchmarking tools
- Basic Electronics knowledge – comfortable following a schematic and technical documentation/datasheet.
Nice to Haves
- Experience working with deployed hardware systems and remote device management.
- Good Python programming skills
- Nvidia computing platforms experience.
- Microcontroller development experience.
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with automated testing
- Video processing/streaming experience, working with camera sensors, codecs and streaming protocols.
- Understanding of core security concepts
- Experience with software development for medical products or other safety-critical applications
We Offer
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package to all our employees:
- Flexible working environment
- Annual Incentive Plan % depending on company results
- Pension scheme and group discount on healthcare insurances
- Training possibilities via Cornerstone/Harvard Manage Monitor/Skills Lab
- Employee Assistance Program and Recognize! (our global recognition program)
Our Commitment
Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communities if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.
About Medtronic
Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are 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 90,000+ passionate people. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day.
When joining Medtronic, you’ll become part of a company that is recognised as a Top Employer for 2022 in multiple countries throughout Europe. Every day we strive to engineer the extraordinary all the while delivering excellent employee experiences and practices benefitting you and your career. Read more about Top Employers.
Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world.
In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary.
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