Careers that change lives
You will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched medtronic’s robotic assisted surgery platform through commercial launch and production scale-up: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html
Impact patient outcomesCome for a job, stay for a career
In the surgical robotics (sr) business, part of medtronic’s medical surgical portfolio, we believe patients around the world deserve access to quality care and improved outcomesWe strive to expand global access to care and reduce variability through robotic and analytics solutions.
Surgical innovations set the standard for minimally invasive surgery (mis) by creating innovative surgical products and services.
A day in the life
Located at the medtronic office in the seaport district of boston, ma, as the senior platform software engineer you will lead and/or participate in the software development efforts in the software center of excellence of the surgical robotics organizationYou will work in a fast-paced environment with a group of software engineers, collaborating with cross functional teams to complete requirements definition, design, code implementation, unit test, and system verification and validation.
Must have: minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
Nice to have:
As an ideal candidate, you will have any or all of the following experience:
Deep understanding of windows, linux, and/or qnx operation, drivers, interfaces, and application-level coding is requiredIncluding but not limited to applications, processes, threads, handles, synchronization, drivers, virtual memory, kernel objects, performance counters, performance analysis, networking, root causing, troubleshooting, and debugging in a complex multi-processor mixed os environment.
Experience in developing and commercializing software products in a fast-paced r&d environment, including understanding of the software development lifecycle (sdlc) and best practices in the medical device industry, experience in providing post product supportExperience in agile/scrum/safe software development in medical device industry.
A minimum of a bs in a technical discipline, preferably software related: computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer scienceMaster’s degree in related discipline preferred.
Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting on targets using modern c++ 11 or greater and demonstrated object-oriented design experience.
Experience with windows os, qnx (x86 and/or arm target), linux and/or other rtos, including related ides, sdks, and ddks
Ability to distill software requirements from system requirements.
Experience in the test-driven development methodology and unit test.
Scripting in windows batch, powershell, python, and relevant scripting languages
Experience with dds and/or other transport layer communications protocols and related network experience (sockets, tcp/ip, udp, wireshark, etc.)
Experience troubleshooting, debugging, and root cause analysis techniques and tools (windbg, gnudbg, others)
Understanding and appreciation of sdlc process and tools (jira, git, cmake, bitbucket, stash, confluence, jama, etc.)
Cybersecurity experience designing and maintaining secure os and applications (ssl/tls, dtls, tpm, trusted/secure boot, root of trust, authentication, encryption, public/private key, key/certificate management etc.)
Experience with authenticated and secure communications protocols
Experience performing risk management analysis of software ideally using sw fmea techniques
Experience in software development in medical device industry or other regulated industry is preferred.
Working conditions:
Work-from-home and standard office setting in boston, maSome limited travel may be required.
About medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwideAt medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend lifeWe challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterdayIt 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 teamLet’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ livesHelp us shape the future.
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.
The physical demands described within the day in the life section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this jobReasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Eeo
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