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

In this role, you will join a world class team of engineers within the Surgical Operating unit responsible for definition, integration, and validation of surgical robotic systems. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”

Medtronic is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join the Systems Engineering Team within the Surgical Operating Unit. This role will be focused on definition, integration, and validation of software sub-systems that are part of larger surgical robotic systems. The successful candidate will work with cross functional teams to execute functional decompositions, develop product and sub-system requirements, and define system and subsystem architecture. They will lead or participate in trade-off studies, prototype evaluations, and clinical acceptability studies.

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

• Provide systems engineering excellence and leadership through a product’s full development lifecycle, from commitment through to product launch.
• Understand and translate stakeholder needs to requirements and total systems solutions that acknowledge technical and business constraints.
• Analyse use cases, document product lifecycle, and define use conditions.
• Oversee the regulated development processes and standards for risk management, usability, and safety to ensure system design and documentation meet relevant safety and regulatory standards globally.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ideate, develop and test software subsystem concepts, and develop software subsystem architectures.
• Understand, evaluate, and communicate system performance, desired behaviour, and usability in the context of clinical use.
• Work with engineers to grasp the technological underpinnings of system architecture and detailed design.
  
  
  

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Systems Engineering, or other related degree
• Background in software systems (define, design, code, test, release, maintain)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (English)
• Experience in leading requirements management, risk management, and system architecture documentation
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and contribute to a cross functional team
• Medical Devices (electro-mechanical and software running on Ubuntu OS)
• Advanced knowledge in Systems Engineering principles and best practices
• Electromagnetic tracking, magnetic localization, sensor fusion, or navigation systems
• AI/deep learning methods paired with software development
• Medical imaging integration
  
  
  

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. 

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.

About Medtronic

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