Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the LifeMedtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.
As a Senior Software Engineer working on the real-time video processing team, you’ll be helping to develop high-performance video and AI processing pipelines for use in the operating room. We’re looking for someone experienced with real-time video manipulation and parallel processing who is comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Leverage hardware acceleration to develop high-performance, low-latency video capture, processing, AI inference, visualization and streaming software.
- Design, implement, and optimise video processing pipelines running on computing systems deployed in the operating room.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop robust and safe-by-design software for a medical device.
- Maintain a high level of quality and reliability in submitted code and participate in team code reviews .
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Excellent C++ development & debugging skills with C++17-23, multi-threading, inter-process communication and performance optimization.
- Excellent knowledge of software design principles and C++ design patterns.
- Experience with real time video pipelines.
- Ability to write clear, maintainable and well-documented code.
- Capability to work independently, driving development from concept to production.
- Strong communication skills.
- Must be able to commute frequently to London-based office; 3 days per week onsite.
Preferred skills include experience with NVIDIA NPP, Intel MKL, and BLAS libraries; experience developing or implementing real-time image processing algorithms using hardware acceleration; experience with medical-grade quality processes; knowledge of video compression and coding standards such as H.264, H.265, and VP9; and good knowledge of Linux.
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.
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Benefits & Compensation
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.
Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: United Kingdom: 76,800.00 GBP - 115,200.00 GBP |
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
Skills Required
- Excellent C++ development and debugging skills, including C++17–23
- Experience with multithreading, inter-process communication, and performance optimization
- Strong knowledge of software design principles and C++ design patterns
- Experience with real-time video pipelines
- Ability to write clear, maintainable, well-documented code
- Ability to work independently and drive development from concept to production
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to commute frequently to the London-based office and work onsite three days per week
- Experience with NVIDIA NPP, Intel MKL, and BLAS libraries
- Experience developing or implementing real-time image-processing algorithms using hardware acceleration
- Experience with medical-grade quality processes
- Knowledge of H.264, H.265, and VP9 video compression and coding standards
- Good knowledge of Linux
Medtronic Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Medtronic and has not been reviewed or approved by Medtronic.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, with high-quality medical, dental, and vision options through major providers and added mental-health resources. These programs are frequently highlighted as a core strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits stand out, including up to 24 weeks paid leave for U.S. birthing parents, 12 weeks for other parents, and a global Family Care Leave at 100% pay. Family-building support (fertility, adoption/surrogacy reimbursements) and backup care further reinforce this strength.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is described as competitive and reliable for long-term savings. Additional financial programs, such as tuition assistance and charitable-gift matching, complement retirement planning.
Medtronic Insights
What We Do
Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions. Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year. To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
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