Senior Controls Software Engineer (Robotics & Test Systems) - Surgical

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

• Design, implement, test and maintain low-level controls software for test rigs, robotic mechanisms and instrument-operation platforms.
• Develop motor-control functions, machine and instrument state machines, homing and calibration sequences, motion trajectories and coordinated operating modes.

• Implement closed-loop force, torque, position, velocity and hybrid control strategies appropriate to the test objective and system architecture.

• Define and implement software limits, error handling, fault recovery, interlocks, watchdogs and test-specific control modes that support safe and repeatable operation.

• Translate system requirements, test methods, motion profiles and load cases into software requirements, control algorithms, interfaces and verification approaches.

• Integrate controls software with servo drives, embedded controllers, real-time systems, sensors, encoders, load cells, torque sensors, data-acquisition hardware and mechanical assemblies.

• Develop reusable software components, device interfaces and configuration approaches that can be applied across multiple rigs and instrument platforms.

• Collaborate with test, systems, mechanical, electrical, mechatronics and software engineers to define interfaces, timing, I/O, communications and expected system behaviour.

• Support concept feasibility, rapid prototyping, rig bring-up, commissioning, tuning, verification, troubleshooting and release for engineering use.

• Use modelling, simulation, data analysis and structured experiments to tune control performance and understand dynamic interactions between the instrument, robot and test equipment.

• Create and maintain software design descriptions, interface documentation, test evidence, configuration records and other technical documentation needed for traceability and reuse.

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, risk assessments and root-cause investigations, applying version control, modular design, coding standards and automated testing.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of controls architectures, reusable libraries and test-system engineering practices.

Key Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering or a related engineering discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience, OR a Master’s/advanced degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Relevant experience developing controls software for robotics, automation equipment, test systems, electromechanical products or special-purpose machinery.
• Strong programming capability in C, C++, Python or comparable languages used for embedded, real-time or test-system controls.
• Practical experience implementing state machines, motion sequences, motor control, trajectory generation and closed-loop force, position or velocity control.
• Understanding of control-system fundamentals, feedback devices, sampling, filtering, stability, tuning, system dynamics and actuator or transmission behaviour.
• Experience integrating software with motors, servo drives, encoders, sensors, data-acquisition hardware, industrial or real-time communications and mechanical systems.
• Experience with software debugging, hardware-in-the-loop or system-level testing, data analysis and structured troubleshooting of electromechanical systems.
• Working knowledge of software lifecycle practices, version control, code review, testing, requirements traceability and technical documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across software, electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, systems and test engineering disciplines.
• Experience with real-time operating systems, embedded controllers, MATLAB/Simulink, or model-based development is desirable.
• Experience in medical devices, surgical robotics, regulated product development or high-reliability test environments is advantageous.

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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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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