A Day in the Life
The Principal Embedded Software Engineer role carries strong leadership expectations, including influencing platform and design decisions, ensuring software solutions meet performance, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle, and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
Leads embedded software development activities for product development and research applications across physiologic monitoring systems and subsystems, such as pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, EEG based devices, and other sensing technologies.
Define software technical direction, design patterns, and architectural standards aligned with system requirements and long‑term platform strategies.
Collaborates 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
Requires Minimum NFQ level 8 degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant 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 developing software for regulated products; familiarity with IEC 62304 medical device software lifecycle practices and standards preferred.
Strong understanding of software verification and validation, including unit testing, integration testing, and system level testing strategies.
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.
Strong code review, debugging, and performance analysis skills, including use of embedded debug and trace tools.
Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers, leading technical reviews, and driving best practices without direct people management responsibilities.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to diverse technical and non technical stakeholders.
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. Compensation ranges for this role in Ireland from €78,320.00 to €117,480.00. This position is eligible for a short‑term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
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