Senior Embedded Software 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 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 Embedded 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, 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.
• Extensive experience working with Linux device drivers (V4L2/I2C/SPI/UART etc.), tinkering with the Linux kernel and device trees.
• Extensive experience with varied Linux system components such as kernels, services, log management, rules, etc.
• Excellent networking knowledge.
• Expert C/C++ and shell scripting knowledge.
• Experience working with custom Linux build systems (Yocto/Buildroot etc.).
• Experience in system bring‑up and hardware integration.
• Experience with over‑the‑air update mechanisms for embedded systems.
• Strong knowledge of security concepts (e.g., hardware root of trust, cryptographic key generation and usage).
• Fundamental knowledge of Linux diagnostic/benchmarking tools.
• Basic Electronics knowledge – comfortable following a schematic and technical documentation/datasheet.
• Experience with software systems engineering and design principles.
• Flexible and comfortable with complexity – being able to think through consequences of changes in a highly interconnected ecosystem over varied use environments.
• Experience working with deployed hardware systems and remote device management, along with strong Python programming skills.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA computing platforms and microcontroller development is highly valued.
• Additional preferred qualifications include experience with AWS, automated testing frameworks, and a solid understanding of core security concepts.
• Experience in software development for medical products or other safety‑critical applications is also highly desirable.

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.

Pay range: 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).

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.

We change lives

Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team

With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life‑changing career is yours to engineer. Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world. Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities. Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life‑long learning.

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

• Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career‑building resources you need.
• Life‑transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
• Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
• Insight‑driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting‑edge AI, data, and automation. You’re shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E‑Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.

For further information about the E‑Verify program, please click here. For updates on job applications, please go to the candidate login page and sign in to check your application status. If you need assistance completing your application please email AskHR@medtronic.com. To request removal of your personal information from our systems please email RS.HRCompliance@medtronic.com.