Associate Engineering Director

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

As an Associate Engineering Director at Medtronic, you will be a second-line leader accountable for a software organization spanning multiple teams and product areas. You will lead through both engineers and other managers, owning the health, capability, and delivery performance of your organization. Where an Engineering Manager drives a team, you will shape the technical and organizational strategy across teams, build the leadership bench beneath you, and serve as a primary partner to R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Program Management leadership on multi-year roadmap.

A Day in the Life

As an Associate Engineering Director at Medtronic, you will be a second-line leader accountable for a software organization spanning multiple teams and product areas. You will lead through both engineers and other managers, owning the health, capability, and delivery performance of your organization. Where an Engineering Manager drives a team, you will shape the technical and organizational strategy across teams, build the leadership bench beneath you, and serve as a primary partner to R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Program Management leadership on multi-year roadmap.

You Will:

· Lead a multi-team software organization (typically 40+ engineers) designing and developing software applications for medical devices across web, mobile, desktop, and cloud.

· Manage, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and senior technical leads; build succession plans and a strong leadership pipeline within your organization.

· Own end-to-end delivery across your operating unit: capacity and resource planning, multi-project prioritization, dependency management, risk escalation, and executive-level reporting on commitments and metrics.

· Set technical direction and architectural standards in partnership with Principal Engineers and Architects; make and defend build/buy/platform decisions.

· Partner with the broader R&D organization (Quality, Systems, Regulatory, Clinical) and with global sites to align on design controls, V&V strategy, and submission readiness.

· Define and institutionalize sustainable product development processes; drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, quality, and cycle time across teams, not just within one team.

· Own hiring strategy, workforce planning, vendor/partner engagement, and budget inputs for your organization.

· Represent the software organization to OU and site leadership, and in design reviews, phase gates, and audits.

· Remove systemic barriers, resolve cross-team conflicts, and create the conditions for teams to deliver predictably.

· Champion a culture of engineering excellence, psychological safety, patient safety, and compliance.

Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move your career forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

If you are a pioneer and would like to have a big impact into the new world of medical robotics – then come join our team!

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 18+ years of applicable work experience in a SW product development & Global team environment.
• Minimum 8+ years of people-management experience, including 2+ years leading multiple teams simultaneously.
• Deep understanding of enterprise application full stack development (desktop, mobile, cloud) and V&V strategy, including automated verification.
• Experience in developing and maintaining a deep technical understanding of product lines and technologies.
• Experience in developing departmental budget and manages expenses in line with organizational objectives; approves departmental expenditures including capital and manpower expense.
• Excellent Technology management, project management skills; demonstrated success executing complex engineering projects with diverse technical teams.
• Proven ability to lead programs within a global matrix structure, including influencing peers and leaders without direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to blend organizational leadership with credible technical depth — able to set strategy and to engage substantively in architecture and design decisions.
• Track record of developing engineers with measurable outcomes in retention, promotion, and capability growth.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present status, risk, and strategy to senior leadership.
• Good financial acumen; strong mathematical and financial capabilities.
• Must have leadership skills and personal strength to protect projects from unsubstantial change requests while ensuring project focus remains in place.
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Nice to have: As an ideal candidate, you will have any or all the following experience: Technical management experience in leading and building platform software development team in the fast-paced R&D environment, deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and its best practice in medical device or similar regulated industry, experience, and strong focus on team’s career development. Experience in developing and commercializing software products in R&D environment, including understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices in the medical device industry, experience in providing post product support. Software development within the medical device or another regulated industry (IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, or equivalent), with ownership of regulatory deliverables.Building and scaling platform software organizations in a fast-paced R&D environment, with a deep command of the SDLC and its best practices in the medical device or similar regulated industry.Developing and commercializing software products through full lifecycle, including sustaining engineering and post-market product support. Leading enterprise-wide or site-wide continuous process improvement initiatives for software development. Scaled Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) in a regulated environment. SDLC tooling and ALM traceability (JIRA, Git, TFS/Azure DevOps, Polarion, or similar).Software risk management, including SW FMEA, cybersecurity risk, and hazard analysis. Establishing engineering practices, technical standards, or communities of practice adopted beyond one's own teams

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.

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

Who We Are

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.

What We Do

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. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• 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

How We Are Different

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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