Sr. Software Engineer
Northridge, CA

Job Description

Careers that Change Lives

We are looking for a talented engineer to join our organization as we develop safety critical software for medical devices that hundreds of thousands of people around the world depend on daily. You will work with a world-class team to meet users' needs by developing innovative solutions and bringing them to market and will directly contribute to Medtronic's mission to Alleviate Pain, Restore Health, and Extend Life by being on the leading edge to bring closed-loop control to insulin-dependent diabetics across the world.

As a Sr. Software Engineering you will be working in fast-paced cross-functional teams to develop embedded software and algorithms for automating insulin delivery therapies to maximize safety and minimize user burden. We're looking for someone with experience in embedded software as well as algorithm development (proficiency in C, RTOS and Embedded programming) to help us transform diabetes care around the world.

A Day in the Life

* You will design, implement and test embedded software and new algorithms through programming and testing (as well as modeling and simulation).
* You will produce C code (either hand code or auto generated from the models) that must run in a resource constrained real-time operating system.
* You will work with SW developers and architects to manage software interfaces and contribute to design of the software and model architecture.
* We'll ask you to perform unit and integration testing and verification.
* We'll ask you to generate and review requirements for Software and Model development and manage requirement flow using requirement management tools.
* You will perform safety and risk analysis on new and existing products.
* You will identify the appropriate standards to be employed to guide product design and ensure adherence to these standards.
* You'll plan, schedule, track and coordinate tasks within team planning meetings.
* You'll also work across our other engineering teams, (systems engineering, hardware & SW development and test, human factors and marketing, etc.).
* Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools and utilities.
* Determines systems software design requirements.
* Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.
* Generates systems software engineering policies, standards and procedures.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

* Bachelors in Engineering with 4+ years modeling and/or software development experience

OR

* Masters in Engineering with 2+ years of modeling and/or software development experience
* Experience programming in C (embedded programing skills)

Nice to Have

* Experience with requirement management and creation tools.
* Experience with ARM Core or similar.
* Strong knowledge of Embedded RTOS (ThreadX or similar) including the proper use of: mutexes/semaphores, various task scheduling options (e.g. task prioritization in ThreadX or other OS), inter-task communication via messages and event queues, interrupt handling, etc.
* Expertise in the C programming language, familiarity with Assembly.
* Common embedded communications protocols such as: SPI, I2C, UART
* Embedded processors, controllers and development tools: emulators, logic analyzers, scopes, stack analysis, static analysis tools, software version control.
* Signal Processing in Real Time software
* Experience with communication networks and protocols is a plus.
* Experience in BSP bring-up: BOOTP, TFTP, FTP, flash memory configuration. Knowledge of Algorithm development, system identification and control design.
* Familiarity with Simulink, State Flow and code generation toolboxes (MathWorks Tools).
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to understand business terms.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)