Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer

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

The Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer provides architectural and technical leadership for complex medical device software products and platforms. This role defines software architecture, drives the development and verification of scalable and secure solutions, and provides technical direction across globally distributed engineering teams. The position combines hands-on engineering with system-level design leadership across embedded, mobile, enterprise, and connected software while supporting development in a regulated medical device environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide architectural and technical leadership across software products and platforms, aligning product designs with system and enterprise architecture.
• Define system-level software requirements and architectures, review design artifacts, and ensure requirements traceability, technical quality, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead the design, development, and verification of high-integrity software for Class II and Class III medical device systems.
• Architect software for real-time data acquisition, processing, synchronization, and presentation across implantable devices and connected systems.
• Design and guide development of embedded, mobile, client/server, web, and cloud interfaces, including Bluetooth, Transmission Control Protocol/User Datagram Protocol (TCP/UDP), socket communication, and REST and SOAP services.
• Develop and promote reusable software frameworks, object-oriented design patterns, automation approaches, and test-first engineering practices.
• Evaluate technologies, frameworks, engineering tools, and development practices while leading technical and process improvements across teams.
• Influence technical strategy and product roadmaps while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product owners, architects, technical leads, verification and validation engineers, and global research and development partners.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering and 20+ years of software engineering experience OR Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering and 17+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience in software architecture, design, development, debugging, and testing using C# and .NET.
• Experience architecting and building AI assisted and AI native tools and solutions with demonstrable efficiency and productivity impact.
• Experience developing medical device software, including real-time data acquisition, processing, synchronization, or presentation.
• Experience designing embedded and connected software, including firmware or device drivers, Bluetooth communication, networking services, socket communication, and TCP/UDP communication.
• Experience translating system requirements into subsystem requirements and software designs using Unified Modeling Language (UML), requirements traceability, and object-oriented design principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing Class III medical device systems, implantable device software, device simulators, or mobile operating system applications for regulated medical systems.
• Knowledge of IEC 62304, ISO 13485, medical device cybersecurity, patient privacy, and secure software development practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated software testing, and configuration management tools.
• Experience with operating system threading and scheduling, distributed computing, relational database design, web-based applications, and build systems.
• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, including software development, verification and validation, systems engineering, human factors, and quality engineering,

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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