Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Flexible Work Arrangement

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Full time

R75503

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

The Physiological Sensing R&D team is dedicated to the end-to-end development, continuous advancement, and clinical validation of innovative monitoring technologies that measure, interpret, and leverage physiological signals to improve patient outcomes. Their expertise spans anesthesia and depth of sedation monitoring, respiratory monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, and the integration of predictive algorithms and clinical decision support solutions. By focusing on non-invasive, real-time technologies, they empower clinicians with actionable insights in surgery, critical care, and other high-risk settings.

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you will develop software for medical products, working on proof-of-concept solutions, new product features, and improvements to existing products. You will work closely with software, hardware, systems, test, and quality teams across different countries, requiring clear communication and effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design , develop and maintain embedded software using C and C++.

• Develop software for microcontrollers and related hardware interfaces.

• Build proof-of-concept solutions to explore and evaluate new ideas.

• Develop software for bare-metal and real-time operating system (RTOS)-based applications.

• Contribute to embedded software architecture and modular design.

• Take part in code reviews, software testing, and technical design discussions.

• Investigate software issues and implement appropriate solutions.

• Create and maintain software requirements, designs, and other development documentation, and contribute to software risk analysis.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Embedded Systems, or a related field, with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

• Strong hands on programming experience in embedded C and C++.

• Experience developing embedded software for microcontrollers in bare metal and real time operating system (RTOS) environments, using microcontroller platforms such as STM32 and an RTOS such as ThreadX or equivalent.

• Experience integrating hardware and developing drivers for various interfaces and peripherals, for example, UART, SPI, I C, ADC, PWM, and USB.

• Experience developing and optimising embedded software for performance, memory usage, reliability, and real time behaviour.

• Experience designing software for testability, including unit testing with mocks, software integration testing, and testing on target hardware.

• Experience with static analysis, code reviews, and secure coding practices.

• Experience with configuration management and source control practices using tools such as Git, along with exposure to CI/CD practices.

• Understanding of software development processes used in regulated environments.

• Experience creating and maintaining software requirements, designs, test records, and traceability between requirements, implementation, and verification evidence.

• Ability to remain hands on in software development while providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for embedded software development.

• Experience in medical device software development and familiarity with IEC 62304.

• Experience developing and debugging embedded software for new or early stage hardware platforms, including prototyping and technical evaluation.

• Experience developing Python based test, automation, diagnostic, or data analysis tools for embedded systems.

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.

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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: 65,600.00 EUR - 98,400.00 EUR

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

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

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