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

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At Medtronic Patient Care Systems (PCS), we power the digital heartbeat behind life-saving cardiac therapies. We build the connected ecosystem that enables clinicians to monitor, manage, and protect millions of patients living with implantable cardiac devices around the world.

From secure device connectivity and real-time data platforms to intelligent clinical tools and patient-facing experiences, PCS transforms complex cardiac data into clarity — helping physicians make faster decisions, improving outcomes, and giving patients greater confidence in their care.

Every line of code we write supports someone’s parent, spouse, child, or friend. Our work ensures that life-saving therapies are not only delivered safely and reliably, but continuously improved through innovation, insight, and global scale.

If you want to build technology that truly matters, where uptime means peace of mind and innovation means more birthdays — join us. Together, we are shaping the future of connected cardiac care and changing lives every single day

Come for a job, stay for a career!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join our Instrument Software team within CRM, developing and maintaining medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of patients worldwide. You’ll work on software applications that interface with Medtronic implantable cardiac devices, programming instruments, and remote patient management systems.

We are looking for highly motivated, self-driven software engineers who are eager to innovate in a fast-paced environment and passionate about improving patients’ quality of life. In this role, you will contribute to all phases of the software development process, collaborating across organizational boundaries with architects, software verification, systems engineering, and other software teams. Success in this position requires strong problem-solving and leadership skills, effective teamwork, a commitment to excellence, and a continuous drive to improve how we develop software products.

A Day in The Life Of:

The following responsibilities apply:

• Design, Develop and test software for class I, II and III medical devices.

• Learn and understand software standards for Medical devices, ex. IEC62304.

• Define, maintain and implement software requirements and designs and review software developed by other team members.

• Build prototypes, frameworks, development kits and accelerator systems suitable for engineering evaluations and testing.

• Participate in process improvement initiatives for the software team. This includes recognizing areas for improvement as well as working with others to develop and document process improvements.

• Conduct and/or participate in technical reviews of requirements, specifications, designs, code and other engineering artifacts, ensuring timely delivery to meet program commitments.

• Design, develop, maintain and execute tests including unit, integration and verification testing and create and maintain documentation generated from testing.

• Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers.

• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity.

• Work collaboratively across functions and with internal and external partners to deliver high quality products to the marketplace.

Key Skills & Experience

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum NFQ level 8 Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or technical field.

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant Software development experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant Software development experience.

• Proven proficiency in C/C++ programming

• Strong knowledge of software design, development, debug and test practices

• Multi-threaded coding experience, with both asynchronous and synchronous code

• Experience working with communication interfaces such as BLE and USB etc.

Nice to Have

• Embedded Software and/or Mobile application development for iOS and/or Android experience

• Proficiency in Java, C#, or Objective-C

• Experience using Python to create tools and automate processes

• Proficient in using debuggers and simulators etc.

• Experience with cybersecurity solutions including TLS, Certificate Management etc.

• Hands on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Proven ability to work effectively in a matrixed, cross‑functional environment.

• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.

• Demonstrated ability to produce high‑quality technical documentation and influence technical direction.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to influence technical decisions.

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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 / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 62,320.00 EUR - 93,480.00 EUR |

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here