Senior Reliability Software Engineer

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.

A Day in The Life Of:

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams on design of software for class I, II and III medical devices per software standards, e.g. IEC62304

• Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, and mentoring on software engineering and software reliability best practices to quality engineers

• Evaluates designs for potential failure modes, assesses potential hazards and harms, prioritizes safety risks, identifies appropriate risk controls, and compiles evidence to demonstrate benefits outweigh product risks

• Design and execute reliability tests to demonstrate software is reliable

• Conduct and/or participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, and other engineering artifacts, ensuring timely delivery to meet program commitments

• Participate in process improvement initiatives for the software quality team. This includes recognizing areas for improvement as well as working with others to develop and document process improvements

• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity.

• Work collaboratively across functions and with internal and external partners to deliver high quality products to the marketplace

Key Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant technical experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of technical experience

• Passion for creating high quality software and documentation

• Strong Leadership and mentoring skills

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Proficiency working in a team environment

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Experience in software design for medical devices

• Experience with Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development

• Proficiency in two or more of the following technologies: C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, C#, .NET, Python, Angular, Xamarin

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

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 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here