About the position
At Medtronic, you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. Medtronic strives to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions. The Robotic Surgical Technologies Business Unit set the standard for Robotically Assisted Surgery (RAS) by creating innovative surgical products and services that focus on surgical procedures of diseases and conditions. Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving 'to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.' At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop software in Simulink that enables surgeons and operating-room staff to control 'Hugo', a Robotic Assisted Surgery System.
- Integrate and test new controller designs on hardware and with the rest of the robotic platform.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of verification methods.
- Partner with the greater software organization, systems engineering, and validation groups.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within the team.
- Define and review software requirements and exercise latitude in determining deliverables.
- Conduct software and product hardware-in-loop testing and create model and prototypes.
- Act as an independent reviewer of Simulink models to ensure that all software meets quality standards.
- Prepare and participate in design reviews.
- Document or participate in the documentation of the software including architecture and design detail, unit testing, anomaly tracking and reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 5 years of relevant experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience developing software for commercial products, preferably in regulated industries, such as medical devices.
- Proficiency in developing software in a Linux environment, with a strong understanding of operating systems and compilation processes.
- Advanced knowledge of software development tools, including build automation (cmake preferred), code coverage, unit testing, static analysis, debugging, and source control (git preferred).
- Expertise in using Simulink to design and develop complex software products, with familiarity in Simulink Coder and a deep understanding of code generation.
- Strong understanding of best practices for developing software in Simulink, with the ability to implement and advocate for these practices across the team.
- Experience with real-time operating systems (QNX preferred).
- Solid foundation of mathematics for controlling robotic systems, including multi-body kinematics, feedback controllers, and signal processing.
- Strong interpersonal skills and attention to detail, with ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build consensus and establish common goals.
- Experience with diverse, cross-functional teams; Geodiversity spanning an international environment is a bonus.
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
