Software Engineering Manager

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 95000 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.

• Cross-functional product leadership: Partner with R&D quality regulatory product management systems engineering and program teams to align software development priorities with product development initiatives and business objectives.
• Talent acquisition and onboarding: Recruit hire and onboard software engineering talent with strong technical depth sound engineering judgment and practical experience applying AI-assisted development tools in professional software environments.
• Team development: Coach and develop reporting staff through regular feedback career planning technical mentorship and opportunities to build modern software engineering capabilities including responsible use of AI-enabled tools.
• Extended workforce leadership: Recruit engage and direct third-party and contractor resources as needed ensuring external contributors follow software development quality cybersecurity and documentation expectations.
• Engineering execution and strategy: Lead and mentor software engineers to deliver strong organizational performance grow individual capability and advance the teams technical strategy across architecture development practices automation and delivery excellence.
• Process maturity and quality: Improve software development processes and quality metrics in partnership with R&D leadership to meet customer expectations for reliability safety cybersecurity maintainability and system performance.
• Customer and field issue resolution: Analyze diagnose and resolve customer problem reports in close collaboration with product support quality systems and sustaining engineering teams.
• AI-assisted engineering practices: Establish practical guidance for using AI-enabled development tools such as GitHub Copilot Claude OpenAI-based solutions and similar model-driven capabilities to support code generation refactoring test creation documentation troubleshooting and engineering productivity.
• Local LLM enablement: Evaluate and apply local or privately hosted large language models where appropriate to support secure engineering workflows protect sensitive intellectual property reduce external data exposure and enable experimentation within approved cybersecurity and compliance boundaries.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• May develop evaluate implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems.
• May establish software reliability mechanisms and standards for company products.
• Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
• Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies materials machines processes and/or products.
• Leads the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
• Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
• Monitors and supports the delivery of documentation throughout all phases of research and development.
• Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
• Selects develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets conducting performance reviews and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

Must Have

• Requires a bachelors degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR advanced degree with 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading and managing the execution of processes projects and tactics within Software Engineering

Nice to Have

• Strong organization acumen with the ability to communicate effectively to non-technical audiences
• Deep expertise in software test methodologies quality standards/metrics (e.g. IEC 62304)
• Experience with APIs SDKs and AI tools that improve the speed quality and precision of software development.
• Experience developing software in a regulated environment
• Proven track record as a successful software engineer
• Experience leading infrastructure DevOps and site reliability engineering

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B TN J etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

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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.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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