Careers that Change Lives
As a Principal Software Systems Engineer, you will be a technical leader for developing requirements for integrated diabetes management solutions for helping people living with diabetes using multiple daily insulin injection therapy. You will work with marketing and R&D product managers to architect the requirements for new features and systems, work through the risk management process to design in safety, work with software architects to break down responsibilities for various software components and work with designers to design user experiences that meet the requirements and ease the burden of diabetes management. You will work with cybersecurity engineers to ensure the security of the system is robust and incorporate security requirements into the system.

You will work with the compliance team to ensure our risk management and design and development processes meet all applicable regulations, and update any documents as needed.

You will work with the technical teams to identify areas of technical risk and ensure that sufficient de-risking activities are on-going so that development programs meet the intended scope and schedule.

Come for a job, stay for a career.

The Diabetes Group is working with the global community to change the way people manage diabetes. Together, we will transform diabetes care by expanding access, integrating care, and improving outcomes so that people with diabetes can enjoy greater freedom and better health.

Our Research and Development organization focuses on addressing the needs of people living with diabetes as well as care givers and health care professionals. Our goal is to develop systems to enable people living with diabetes to live a life without limits.

This position is based in our San Diego, CA office.

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful. We're committed. And we're driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.

A Day in the Life

• Work with clinical product managers to understand and document user needs.
• Work cross functionally to evaluate options to meet the user needs and select the method that is safe, effective and lowers the burden of daily diabetes management.
• Evaluate and document risks associated with the new feature and develop and document risk mitigations to increase safety of the system in the risk management file.
• Work with software architects to define responsibility of various components of the system for the feature.
• Document requirements of new features in requirements specifications.
• Work with designers through the design process to translate the requirements into design and document the designs in a software design specification.
• Interface with the software development teams to answer questions, address requirement, design or risk gaps uncovered during implementation.
• Interface with the software test group for the development of test cases against the requirements and design.
• Review the delivery and ensure the finished product meets the user needs and requirements.
• Establishes the architecture for a technology group to allow for future iteration and feature expansion.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Documenting user needs
• Translating user needs into software requirements
• Working with risk management team to document risks and develop risk mitigations
• Working with software architects to determine responsibilities of components
• Documenting software requirements
• Working with designers to develop designs to meet user needs and software requirements
• Working with software development teams during implementation
• Working with software test team during test case development
• Reviewing completed work and assessing work against user needs, requirements and designs

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors' degree in engineering or sciences with 7+ years of experience or Masters' degree in engineering or sciences with 5+ years of experience

Nice to Have

• Experience in medical device software development or similar regulated industry
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience in developing documentation / clear requirements
• Understanding of diabetes management, glucose monitoring and insulin delivery
• Experience in developing launching app-cloud systems
• Experience in leading development of distributed systems

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)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Sep 9, 2021
• Travel: No