Senior Software Test 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 LifeCareers that Change Lives
​​​​​​​In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit brings together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we 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.” 

A Day in The Life

As a Senior Controls Software Engineer working at Medtronic, you will be a significant contributor in the development of control algorithms that supports, legacy, current and future generations of robotic surgical instruments. You will create software solutions that run on a sophisticated real-time embedded platform, using embedded sensor and actuator hardware to deliver high-bandwidth, precise and robust instrument response. In addition, this role will involve engagement with the electromechanical design of surgical instruments at all stages – with a focus on control software requirements development that is compatible with the test, verification, and validation of a safety-critical system.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Participates, as a member of software project or sub-project team(s), in the verification of software applications for product / test tools
Adheres to defined verification plans and procedures.
Responsible for defining and implementing test strategies of medical devices
Generates high-quality work products.
Participates in review of requirements, development of test case/procedure and execution of test protocol activities and prepare plan documents and test reports
Functions well in a team environment especially in agile environment
Demonstrates good documentation practices.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• 4-12 years of embedded software verification experience for safety critical systems.

  
  

• Experience in test automation framework (MIL, SIL and HIL)

  
  

• Experience in setting up the testing environment for embedded systems

  
  

• Experience in strong Python Programming.

  
  

• Experience in defining the testing strategies for embedded software

  
  

• Hands on experience on MATLAB/SIMULINK, 

  
  

• Experience performing risk management analysis of software (e.g., SW FMEA).

  
  

• Familiarity with real-time operating systems such as QNX/VXWORKS/LINUX.

  
  

• Experience in tools like JAMA, STASH/BITBUCKET/GIT/JIRA/CONFLUENCE/BAMBOO

  
  

• Good knowledge on agile principle and good experience in working in agile environment

  
  

Nice to Have

• Hands on experience on C++

  
  

• Experience in Medical Domain

  
  

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 90,000+ 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