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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\nThe Physiological Sensing R&D team is dedicated to the end-to-end development, continuous advancement, and clinical validation of innovative monitoring technologies that measure, interpret, and leverage physiological signals to improve patient outcomes. Their expertise spans anesthesia and depth of sedation monitoring, respiratory monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, and the integration of predictive algorithms and clinical decision support solutions. By focusing on non-invasive, real-time technologies, they empower clinicians with actionable insights in surgery, critical care, and other high-risk settingsAs a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you will design and develop software for medical products, contributing to various stages of the product lifecycle, from early-stage solution exploration and technical evaluation to feature development, product enhancements, and sustainment of existing products. You will work closely with software, hardware, systems, test, and quality teams across different countries, requiring clear communication and effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.\nDesign, develop, and maintain embedded software using C and C++.\n\nDevelop software for microcontrollers and related hardware interfaces.\n\nBuild proof-of-concept solutions to explore and evaluate new ideas.\n\nDevelop software for bare-metal and real-time operating system (RTOS)-based applications.\n\nContribute to embedded software architecture and modular design.\n\nTake part in code reviews, software testing, and technical design discussions.\n\nInvestigate software issues and implement appropriate solutions.\n\nCreate and maintain software requirements, designs, and other development documentation, and contribute to software risk analysis.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Embedded Systems, or a related field, with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.\n\nStrong hands-on programming experience in embedded C and C++.\n\nExperience developing embedded software for microcontrollers in bare-metal and real-time operating system (RTOS) environments, using microcontroller platforms such as STM32 and an RTOS such as ThreadX or equivalent.\n\nExperience integrating hardware and developing drivers for various interfaces and peripherals, for example, UART, SPI, I²C, ADC, PWM, and USB.\n\nExperience developing and optimising embedded software for performance, memory usage, reliability, and real-time behaviour.\n\nExperience designing software for testability, including unit testing with mocks, software integration testing, and testing on target hardware.\n\nExperience with static analysis, code reviews, and secure coding practices.\n\nExperience with configuration management and source-control practices using tools such as Git, along with exposure to CI/CD practices.\n\nUnderstanding of software development processes used in regulated environments.\n\nExperience creating and maintaining software requirements, designs, test records, and traceability between requirements, implementation, and verification evidence.\n\nAbility to remain hands-on in software development while providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for embedded software development.\n\nExperience in medical-device software development and familiarity with IEC 62304.\n\nExperience developing and debugging embedded software for new or early-stage hardware platforms, including prototyping and technical evaluation.\n\nExperience developing Python-based test, automation, diagnostic, or data-analysis tools for embedded systems.\n\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. 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.\nPay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 65,600.00 EUR - 98,400.00 EUR | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).","description_format":"text","description_chars":5942,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Surgical Instruments & Devices","Orthopedic & Spine Implants","Diabetes Devices","Neurotech & Neuromodulation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T01:12:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":56,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.744,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":12,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:late","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":111796,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/medtronic-senior-embedded-software-engineer-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/medtronic-senior-embedded-software-engineer-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T20:16:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8032,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":638},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=638"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmedtronic-senior-embedded-software-engineer-3"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmedtronic-senior-embedded-software-engineer-3"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmedtronic-senior-embedded-software-engineer-3"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/medtronic-senior-embedded-software-engineer-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmedtronic-senior-embedded-software-engineer-3"}]}