Job Description

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

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As a Software Engineer-II with a focus on Software Engineering Capabilities, Excellence Metrics, and Patient Safety, you will be at the forefront of ensuring that our software systems meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and efficiency. You will be working with software teams in Cardiaovascular, Medical Surgical and Neuroscience portfolios at MEIC, and will play a key role in working on best practices, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring that our software solutions align with both technical and regulatory requirements. This is a Team Player role responsible for monitoring software excellence deliverables, ensuring patient safety standards, and embracing a culture of innovation and collaboration across the organization.


Reports to the Engineering Manager of Software Technology. Collaborates with cross-functional teams (business analysts, developers, end-users) to understand requirements and deliver solutions.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

Cross-Functional Collaboration

: Engage with engineering, product management, and quality teams to help project progress and ensure alignment with software excellence metrics, quality goals, and maturity standards.

Software Maturity & KPIs

: Participate in software maturity initiatives, tracking KPIs such as defect density, technical debt, and code quality. Works on frameworks to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability across the software lifecycle.

DevOps Integration

: Understand DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automating testing, and deployment processes and help enhance efficiency and system reliability.

Optimizing Tools & Processes

: Implements optimization of software tools and development processes, use the most effective solutions for code analysis, automation, and collaboration.

Technical Reviews

: Conduct critical reviews of software components to ensure best practices, code quality, and adherence to industry standards. Guide individuals in optimizing development cycles and improving testing strategies.

Regulatory Compliance & Patient Safety

: Ensure software meets regulatory requirements and patient safety standards by actively adopting initiatives like Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM) and Quality Improvement Plans.

Leveraging Reusable Solutions

: Helps build reusable software components and frameworks across teams, enhancing efficiency and consistency while reducing development time.

Continuous Improvement

: Analyze performance data to identify areas for improvement, takes part in initiatives to enhance software quality, safety, and user experience. Implements process improvements through regular assessments and industry benchmarking.

Stakeholder Communication

: Regularly update stakeholders on progress, software maturity, and quality metrics, providing strategic recommendations for process improvements and alignment with business objectives.

Required Knowledge and Experience

Must Have

B-Tech/BE in Computer Science, Electronics, or related field with 4+ years of experience in Software and Systems Engineering, OR ME/M-Tech with 4+ to 8 years of relevant experience. Proven experience working on development and delivery of enterprise-scale software systems with a focus on quality, reliability, and maintainability. Expertise in implementing software quality metrics and adherence to best practices in software development and testing. Good understanding of software engineering processes, including agile methodologies, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and DevOps practices. Experience working on software process improvement initiatives, leveraging data to enhance software development efficiency and product quality. Hands-on experience with Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM) principles, driving their integration into the software product lifecycle.

Good to Have

Preferrable experience working with cloud-native or distributed systems, particularly in optimizing their reliability and scalability. Preferrable hands-on experience with software maturity models, such as CMMI, and their application in driving software excellence and continuous improvement. Preferrable Familiarity with patient safety standards and industry regulations such as ISO 13485 and IEC 62304 for safety-critical systems, particularly in healthcare or medical device industries. Preferrable experience in developing software systems for regulated industries such as healthcare, aerospace, or automotive, where safety and quality are critical. Preferrable expertise in statistical process control, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies to drive quality improvement initiatives.

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

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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.





This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

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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.