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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.\nA Day in the Life\nAt Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.\nOur Purpose\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nCome for a job, stay for a career!\nA Day in The Life Of:\nAs 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.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nComputer Vision & Machine Learning Development\nDesign, develop, and evaluate computer vision and machine learning models to solve complex business and technical problems.\n\nPerform data exploration, feature engineering, and model experimentation.\n\nApply appropriate validation and evaluation methodologies to ensure robust model performance.\n\nContinuously improve models through experimentation and iterative development.\n\nML Systems and Production Deployment\nBuild end-to-end machine learning pipelines for data ingestion, training, validation, and deployment.\n\nDeploy models into production environments as APIs, services, or batch processing pipelines.\n\nImplement monitoring and performance tracking for deployed models.\n\nEnsure reproducibility, versioning, and lifecycle management of ML models.\n\nSoftware Engineering\nLead team to develop high-quality, maintainable, and testable Python code for ML systems.\n\nDriving software engineering best practices including modular design, automated testing, and code review.\n\nDesign scalable services and components that integrate ML models into production applications.\n\nProviding technical leadership to engineering teams to integrate ML capabilities into broader systems.\n\nInfrastructure and MLOps\nWork with cloud-based infrastructure to support ML training and deployment workflows.\n\nImplement CI/CD processes for ML pipelines and model releases.\n\nSupport automation of model retraining and operational monitoring.\n\nEnsure reliability, scalability, and observability of ML services.\n\nCollaboration and Communication\nProviding technical leadership to teams with data engineers, software engineers, and domain experts.\n\nTranslate analytical results into practical solutions and production-ready systems.\n\nInfluencing architectural discussions for AI-enabled platforms and products.\n\nWorking in agile/scrum framework and with cross-functional groups to influence the project technical direction.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor'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.\n\nMinimum 7 years of experience developing, deploying, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments.\n\nDemonstrated expertise in machine learning model development, statistical methods, data science techniques, and model evaluation methodologies.\n\nStrong proficiency in Python and experience developing scalable, maintainable, and testable software systems.\n\nExperience building machine learning pipelines and implementing cloud-based ML deployment workflows, CI/CD processes, and model lifecycle management practices.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n8+ years of experience deploying machine learning models into production environments.\n\n8+ years of experience developing computer vision solutions and working with large-scale datasets and data engineering workflows.\n\nExperience designing scalable data processing pipelines, distributed computing solutions, or large-scale machine learning systems.\n\nExperience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, and implementing monitoring and observability capabilities for machine learning services.\n\nMedtronic 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.\nPhysical Job Requirements\nThe 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.\nRecruitment Fraud Alert\nWe are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind:\nApply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses.\nMedtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate.\nIf you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.\nIf you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at .\nBenefits & Compensation\nMedtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package\nA commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. 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