Principal AI/ML Software Engineer
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- €83.5K–€125.3K
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- Ireland
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- Hybrid
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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
At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
Our Purpose
The Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) Operating Unit is dedicated to transforming care for patients with coronary disease and hypertension. We combine innovative devices, digital technologies, and advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to support clinicians and improve patient outcomes worldwide. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life.
The Principal AI/ML Software Engineer combines strong data science expertise with solid software engineering skills to design, build, and deploy production-grade machine learning systems. This role focuses on developing robust ML models and integrating them into scalable software systems that support real-world applications.
Come for a job, stay for a career!
A Day in The Life Of:
As a Principal AI/ML Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership in the design, development, deployment, and operationalization of machine learning and computer vision solutions that support connected healthcare technologies. You will work across the full AI lifecycle, from data exploration and model development through production deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, while partnering with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable AI-enabled systems.
Primary Responsibilities:
Computer Vision & Machine Learning Development
Design, develop, and evaluate computer vision and machine learning models to solve complex business and technical problems.
Perform data exploration, feature engineering, and model experimentation.
Apply appropriate validation and evaluation methodologies to ensure robust model performance.
Continuously improve models through experimentation and iterative development.
ML Systems and Production Deployment
Build end-to-end machine learning pipelines for data ingestion, training, validation, and deployment.
Deploy models into production environments as APIs, services, or batch processing pipelines.
Implement monitoring and performance tracking for deployed models.
Ensure reproducibility, versioning, and lifecycle management of ML models.
Software Engineering
Lead team to develop high-quality, maintainable, and testable Python code for ML systems.
Driving software engineering best practices including modular design, automated testing, and code review.
Design scalable services and components that integrate ML models into production applications.
Providing technical leadership to engineering teams to integrate ML capabilities into broader systems.
Infrastructure and MLOps
Work with cloud-based infrastructure to support ML training and deployment workflows.
Implement CI/CD processes for ML pipelines and model releases.
Support automation of model retraining and operational monitoring.
Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of ML services.
Collaboration and Communication
Providing technical leadership to teams with data engineers, software engineers, and domain experts.
Translate analytical results into practical solutions and production-ready systems.
Influencing architectural discussions for AI-enabled platforms and products.
Working in agile/scrum framework and with cross-functional groups to influence the project technical direction.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree with minimum 7 years, Master's Degree with 5 years, or PhD with 3 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, or related technical development roles.
Minimum 7 years of experience developing, deploying, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments.
Demonstrated expertise in machine learning model development, statistical methods, data science techniques, and model evaluation methodologies.
Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing scalable, maintainable, and testable software systems.
Experience building machine learning pipelines and implementing cloud-based ML deployment workflows, CI/CD processes, and model lifecycle management practices.
Preferred Qualifications
8+ years of experience deploying machine learning models into production environments.
8+ years of experience developing computer vision solutions and working with large-scale datasets and data engineering workflows.
Experience designing scalable data processing pipelines, distributed computing solutions, or large-scale machine learning systems.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, and implementing monitoring and observability capabilities for machine learning services.
Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package. We support a hybrid work model. Alongside a competitive base salary, we provide a comprehensive benefits package including an annual performance bonus, pension contribution, family healthcare coverage, continuous professional development, and more.
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.
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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