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

This Principal Embedded Software Engineer role carries strong technical expectations across hardware and software domains to influence system architecture, design novel technical solutions with cutting edge performance, and ensure solutions meet all requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

A Day in The Life Of:

• Serve as a technical expert for embedded software design activities contributing to product development and research applications across physiologic monitoring systems and subsystems, such as pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, EEG based devices, and other sensing technologies.

• Influence software technical direction, design patterns, and architectural standards aligned with system requirements and long-term platform strategies.

• Collaborate closely with systems, hardware, algorithm, and test engineering partners, and translates complex clinical and system requirements into robust, real‑time embedded software solutions.

• Translate clinical, system, and regulatory requirements into reliable, real time embedded software solutions.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, hardware, algorithm, test, and quality engineers to ensure cohesive and testable product designs.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for implementation of critical software components, including real time operating systems, device drivers, middleware, and application logic.

• Review software designs, code, and test results to ensure robustness, performance, safety, and maintainability.

• Serve as a technical authority for embedded software, resolving complex, ambiguous, or cross-cutting technical issues.

• Mentor and technically guide engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and problem-solving activities without formal people management responsibilities.

• Promote best practices for embedded software development, including coding standards, version control, documentation, and secure development practices.

Key Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise in embedded software architecture and development for real time, safety critical systems, including strong proficiency in C/C++ and embedded development tools.

• Extensive experience working with real time operating systems (RTOS), device drivers, middleware, and low-level hardware interfaces.

• Proven ability to define software architecture, design patterns, and technical direction for complex embedded systems and platforms.

• Experience with digital signal processing for physiologic signals preferred.

• Experience with hardware description language and configurable hardware preferred.

• Experience implementing machine learning inference architectures optimized for embedded environments preferred.

• Experience developing software for regulated products; familiarity with IEC 62304 medical device software lifecycle practices and standards preferred.

• Experience collaborating closely with hardware, systems, algorithm, and test engineers to deliver integrated, high-quality solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex, ambiguous, or cross cutting technical challenges spanning multiple subsystems.

• Proficiency with version control, configuration management, and continuous integration practices in embedded environments.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to diverse technical and non technical stakeholders.

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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: 83,520.00 EUR - 125,280.00 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