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

We can positively transform healthcare around the world. At Medtronic, we do this by pushing the boundaries of what technology, therapies and services can do to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We regularly challenge ourselves to make tomorrow better than yesterday. That's what makes Medtronic an exciting and diverse place to work.

Founded in 1949 as a medical repair company, today we are one of the largest medical technology companies in the world. We employ more than 90,000 people worldwide and support healthcare professionals, hospitals, and patients in over 155 countries.

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. 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.

Our R&D site in Munich has been active in the field of medical technology since 2013 and has been part of the Medtronic Surgical Robotics Group since 2016. We strive to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, faster complication-free recovery, and enhanced patient outcomes through less invasive surgical solutions.

With our approx. 80 employees at the Munich R&D site as part of the Robotic Surgical Technologies R&D Center of Excellence and our colleagues in the US, we set the standard for Minimally Invasive Surgery and beyond by creating innovative surgical products and services that focus on obesity, diseases, and conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, lung, abdominal wall, pelvic region, and head and neck.

We want to constantly develop further. For this to succeed, we need the right people in our team. That’s why we are looking for you as a Senior Software Engineer (f/m/d) for our Munich site.

Let's work together to meet the challenges of healthcare and improve the lives of countless people. Help us shape the future. Regardless of your specialty or ambition, you can make a difference at Medtronic - not only in your own career, but also in the lives of others.

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

• You design and develop Software for computing nodes embedded into a robotic system and related surgical instrumentation.
• You work with an international team of Software engineers to deliver critical software for a distributed real-time environment. Together with this team you
  • connect sensors and actuators to higher level control algorithms,
  • apply hardware abstraction concepts,
  • implement safety related functionality,
  • develop communication protocols,
  • work with real-time operating systems and bare metal applications,
  • create software that runs on a variety of computing architecture ranging from microcontrollers, over powerful Arm-based SoCs, to multicore x86/x64 computers.
• You integrate and test new designs on a robotic platform.
• You develop medical device compliant software to control mechatronic systems.
• You participate in an Agile development process with a cross functional collaboration of various teams.
• You review the work of other developers to help maintain our high-quality standards.
• You define and review software requirements and architecture.
• You document the software including design detail, implementation documentation, unit tests, and bug tracking.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Master's Degree in an Engineering discipline or equivalent and at least 5 years of relevant work experience
• You gained experience in Research Centers, Universities, Automation, Robotics, or in a regulated industry environment
• You are a great communicator (verbal and written) and can explain complex ideas/topics in an easy and effective way.
• You show great self-motivation and can work autonomously.
• You embrace agile development practices (like Test Driven Development, iterative/incremental delivery, tight feedback loops, collaboration).
• You have a design pattern at hand for any programming task.
• You understand the constraints of writing Software that interfaces with the physical world.
• You are aware of the implications of developing software that serves closed-loop control algorithms as connection to the hardware.
• You can explain communication technologies like Ethernet, EtherCAT, SPI, I2C, UART, USB.
• You know the differences between FPGAs, DSPs, CPUs, etc.
• You have a solid understanding and appreciation of Software Development Cycle (SDLC),
• You understand standard OS features (e.g. threading and concurrency, memory management, device drivers, I/O, etc.).
• You are comfortable in using programming languages, tools, and technologies like:
  • Modern C++ ( 17)
  • NTH: C,
  • Python,
  • Shell Scripting,
  • git,
  • GTest/GMock,
  • CMake, Basel
  • Linux/QNX/Windows,
  • Atlassian Tools (Bitbucket, Jira, Bamboo, Crucible),
• You like to join a culturally diverse team and can work in English language.

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