A Day in the Life

Are you interested in developing embedded systems for the operating room? Do you like the challenge of optimizing performance for novel edge devices? Do you enjoy working with a dynamic team with a technically diverse skill set? Is the challenge of making software in the field reliable and maintainable something that excites you?

Digital Surgery creates products to allow surgical teams to securely record and analyze their performance. As a Senior or Principal Embedded Video Engineer in the Devices team, you’ll be helping expand the feature-set of our existing devices while ensuring the codebase is maintainable, allowing us to continue to deliver the next generation of surgical technology. We’re looking for an approachable personality who can reach across disciplines to deliver value.

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

• Work within our highly technically diverse multidisciplinary teams (application software, embedded, FPGA, computer vision, cloud platform, etc.)
• Support the development and productization of our custom computing devices, medical devices, and other devices for the hospital operating rooms.
• Drive collaboration with our hardware team to build and maintain compatible kernels/drivers for our hardware platforms.
• Architect, develop, test, and debug system services and hardware-dependent software applications.
• Coordinate and conduct code reviews for embedded software.
• Contribute to the software infrastructure to ensure seamless software deployments.
• Participate in the relevant security and regulatory compliance processes.
• Develop robust and secure-by-design software fit for a medical-grade system.
• Perform formal risk analysis activities, develop software mitigations, run verification tests and participate in design transfer to manufacturing activities.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• BS/MS in Computer, Electrical, Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of at least one of the following video standards: HDMI, SDI, DP.
• Video processing/streaming experience, working with camera sensors, codecs and streaming protocols.
• Extensive experience working with Linux and RTOS device drivers.
• Expert C/C++ and shell scripting knowledge.
• Experience in system bring-up and hardware integration.
• Fundamental knowledge of Linux diagnostic/benchmarking tool.
• Experience with software systems engineering and design principles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexible - you can independently solve problems as they arise but are comfortable asking for help when you need it.
• Comfortable with complexity – being able to think through consequences of changes in a highly interconnected ecosystem over varied use environments.

Experience with embedded graphics technologies and a strong understanding of the Xilinx toolchain and FPGA development. Familiarity with NVIDIA computing platforms and microcontroller development is highly desirable. Experience in automated testing, along with hands-on knowledge of regulatory standards such as FDA requirements and ISO/IEC guidelines, including ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and ISO 14971, is preferred. Additionally, background in software development for medical devices or other safety-critical applications is a strong asset.

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.

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