Software Engineering Manager - Embedded C++

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

•    Bachelor’s or master’s degree required with Minimum of 15+ years of relevant experience
•    Manage a cross functional engineering technical team size of 20 or more.
•    Provide a blend of people management and technical savviness. Should have worked in matrix reporting structures with accountability on successful delivery of solutions.
•    Identify the needs and prepare capabilities in the cross functional areas, SW development and verification and validation areas to foster full turnkey solution to the business.
•    Provide a deep understanding of the embedded and application SW development processes (Agile, waterfall methodology) and help establish SW metrics & recommended the processes for the team.
•    Experience in leading high-performance software development team(s) in the R&D environment.
•    Management and/or leadership experience in platform software and real-time software development in medical device or similar regulated industry.
•    Experience in mentoring and coaching software engineers, helping them improve their skills and career development.
•    Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build consensus and establish common goals.
•    Experience with Windows OS, QNX (x86 and/or Arm target), Linux and/or other Real Time Operating System, including related IDEs, SDKs, and DDKs.
•    Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting on targets using modern C++ 11 or greater.
•    Experience in object-oriented design and design patterns.

Nice to have:
As an ideal candidate, you will have any or all the following experience:

Technical management experience in leading and building platform and real-time operating system software development team in the fast-paced R&D environment, deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and its best practice in medical device or similar regulated industry, experience, and strong focus on team’s career development.

Experience in developing and commercializing software products in R&D environment, including understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices in the medical device industry, experience in providing post product support.

Experience leading software development continuous process improvement activities.

•    Understanding and appreciation of SDLC process and tools (e.g. JIRA, Bitbucket, Stash, Confluence, JAMA, Git, CMake.)
•    Experience in software development in medical device industry or similar regulated industry.
•    Experience in the test-driven development methodology and unit test.
•    Experience in Agile/Scrum/SAFe software development practices.
•    Ability to distill software requirements from system requirements.
•    Experience with Windows OS, QNX (x86 and/or Arm target), Linux and/or other Real Time Operating System, including related IDEs, SDKs, and DDKs.
•    Experience with Transport layer communications protocols and related network experience (e.g. DDS TCP/IP, UDP, Sockets, Wireshark, etc.)
•    Experience Troubleshooting, Debugging, and Root Cause Analysis techniques and tools (e.g. WinDbg, GnuDbg, others)
•    Experience performing risk management analysis of software ideally using SW FMEA techniques.
•    Experience working with the global/multi-development sites environment is a plus.
•    Experience leading technical design activities.
•    Experience leading software development process improvement activities.
•    Experience in providing guidance, coaching, and training to other software engineers in the software development technologies and best practices.
•    Experience or basic understanding surgical robotics is a plus.

PRINCIPAL WORKING RELATIONSHIPS 

•    The incumbent would work with the project management office to ensure that resource forecasts, project metrics are correctly captured and presented to the leadership
•    Frequent interaction with team members from other disciplines, cross functional teams, to understand project requirements and to adhere to project schedules. 
•    Possible interaction with clinicians, third-party vendors, manufacturers, and subcontractors.

 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. Whatever your specialty or ambitions, you can make a difference at Medtronic - both in the lives of others and your career. Join us in our commitment to take healthcare Further, Together

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