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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\nMedtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit (SOU) is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing high-performance systems that enable edge computing and connectivity.\nThe Surgical AI Centre of Excellence works closely with teams across the SOU, to create a connected ecosystem and leverage state of the artdata science and computer vision to providethe most comprehensive view of surgery. 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Familiarity with using LLM agents to accelerate software development, as well as experience or knowledge in machine learning, would be advantageous. Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform, would also be a plus.\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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