Principal AI/Data Science Engineer
Medtronic
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
In this role, you will drive the strategic development of scalable AI and MLOps platforms for defect inspection and visual process monitoring across Medtronic’s diverse product portfolio. You will convert proof-of-concepts into production-grade solutions, ensuring global scalability, reliability, and compliance in regulated manufacturing environments.At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Define and execute the strategic roadmap for Analytics for Manufacturing Imaging, including data ingestion, annotation governance, model training, deployment, and lifecycle management.
Architect end-to-end workflows in AWS SageMaker, NVIDIA TAO Toolkit, PyTorch, and other custom training pipelines, ensuring reproducibility, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
Develop advanced computer vision solutions, including segmentation, anomaly detection, and transformer-based vision models, while integrating hybrid approaches using Halcon and OpenCV
Prototype and adapt foundation models (e.g., DINOv2, SAM 2.1) using transfer learning and self-supervised methods, translating research into validated, domain-specific solutions for manufacturing.
Lead initiatives to operationalize DataOps automation and model-assisted annotation to accelerate high-quality ground-truth creation.
Plan and direct AI/ML model from experimentation to deployment, ensuring performance benchmarking, validation, and compliance with medical device quality standards.
Build compelling business cases supported by ROI analysis and projected operational benefits to prioritize enterprise AI/ML initiatives.
Provide strategic leadership for the Manufacturing Imaging & Analytics Center of Excellence, setting best practices and enabling adoption of AI/ML solutions at global manufacturing sites.
Partner with Manufacturing, Automation, Process, Quality, and IT to ensure seamless integration of AI/ML models and algorithms into production systems.
Engage with external vendors, integrators, and suppliers to align internal platform development with cutting-edge AI/ML and industrial technologies.
Champion training, knowledge-sharing, and technical playbooks to democratize AI/ML practices and accelerate adoption across the enterprise.
People-centered, data-driven, connected. We're solving the world's biggest health challenges with medical device technology. From less-invasive surgery to the world’s smallest pacemaker, our technology transforms lives — powered by AI and data-driven insight.
Must Haves
Bachelor’s Degree and 7+ years of AI/ML engineering experience, including computer vision and MLOps, OR advanced degree with 5+ years of experience.
Nice to Have
The ability and self-motivation to take a strategy and vision, define and manage project deliverables, and deliver scalable project outcomes
Proven track record of designing and deploying production-grade AI/ML solutions in manufacturing environments.
Expertise in AWS SageMaker, PyTorch, and MLOps toolchains (ClearML, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Triton Inference Server).
Strong Expertise in computer vision algorithm development, leveraging both deep learning and hybrid rules-based approaches (Halcon, OpenCV).
Proficiency with data curation and annotation platforms (Voxel51, V7) for large-scale model training.
Excellent communication and knowledge-sharing skills, with experience building Centers of Excellence, technical standards, and training frameworks.
Ability to collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders and internal customers, from manufacturing process to quality and automation engineers
Knowledge of advanced imaging for manufacturing.
Experience scaling Industry 4.0/IoT cloud-to-edge AI architectures.
Experience in validation and performance analysis (MSA, IQ/OQ/PQ, TMV) ensuring regulatory compliance and reliability.
Publications or patents in AI/ML computer vision or manufacturing analytics.
Experience with transfer learning and training domain-specific models using self-supervised learning and foundation model adaptation.
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 Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
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.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
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.
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.
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