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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 bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.The Software Engineering Manager will be an integral member of the Affera Software Team, working on cutting-edgetechnology in the electrophysiology field. This role offers a rare chance to be at the forefront of developing groundbreaking technology that can disrupt the industry.\nThis role will lead a team responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software for the Affera mapping system, providing technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional execution oversight to deliver safe, high-quality, and innovative software solutions that support product performance, regulatory compliance, and business objectives.\nThe ideal candidate will have deep experience leading software engineering teams in a regulated environment, with strong expertisein software architecture, product development, and team development. They will take ownership of key software capabilities while working collaboratively with cross-functional engineering teams and are passionate about developing products that will have a positive impact on the lives of millions.\nAbout the Affera Mapping and Ablation System\nThe Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identifyabnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nLead software engineering teams responsible for architecture, design, development, sustainingactivities for complex medical device software.\n\nDefine technical direction, development priorities, and execution plans in alignment with product and business strategy.\n\nSupport planning and execution of release milestones, risk management, defect resolution, and continuous improvement while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions for current and future product releases.\n\nDefine, plan, organize, and coordinate software development deliverables across multiple sites in accordance withFDA and other regulatory requirements.\n\nRecruit, coach, mentor, retain, and develop high-performing software engineering talent while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence.\n\nLead forecasting, effort estimation, resource planning, technical planning, execution, and release activities.\n\nDrive continuous improvement by identifyingand implementing industry-standard software engineering technologies, methods, and tools.\n\nApply software development methodologies, including Agile practices, to improve execution, collaboration, and delivery across the organization.\n\nChampion best practices in software development, architecture, cybersecurity, testability, and documentation.\n\nOversee definition and implementation of software engineering practices that improve quality, maintainability, scalability, and product performance.\n\nContribute toproduct strategy through technical assessment, roadmap input, and tradeoff analysis.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 yearsof relevant experiencewith 5+ years of managerial experience\n\nOR anadvanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.\n\nDemonstrated ability to balance technical leadership, people management, execution discipline, and long-term engineering strategy.\n\nFamiliarity with Python and C++.\n\nThorough understanding of software architecture, design, implementation, code review, integration, and requirementstraceability practices.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nStrong knowledge of medical product software development, IEC-62304, and FDA guidance in a technical discipline, preferably software related (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering), with relevant software engineering experience in regulated product development.\n\nStrong understanding of good documentation practices, software lifecycle processes, configuration management, and commonly used engineering management tools.\n\nAbility to work with Quality, Regulatory, Systems, Test, and other engineering partners to ensure software deliverables meet product, compliance, and business needs.\n\nAbility to work with Systems, Mechanical, Electrical,and Software engineers when discovering, documenting, and resolving integration issues.\n\nExperience leading teams that develop complex software systems involving real-time performance, hardware integration, data visualization, or distributed system components.\n\nExperience with embedded software, real-time systems, imaging, mapping, or medical device platforms.\n\nExperience writingtechnical reports\n\nStrong work ethic and entrepreneurial drive\n\nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.\n\nStrong communicationskills, both written and verbal\n\n #LI-MDT\nFor Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.\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.\nThe physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.\nU.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship\nAt Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.\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.\nSalary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$150,400.00 - $225,600.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others). The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance,Health Savings Account,Healthcare Flexible Spending Account,Life insurance, Long-term disability leave,Dependent daycare spending account,Tuition assistance/reimbursement, andSimple Steps (global well-being program).\nThe following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match,Short-term disability,Paid time off,Paid holidays,Employee Stock Purchase Plan,Employee Assistance Program,Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).\nRegular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.\nFurther details are available at the link below:\nMedtronic benefits and compensation plans\nIt is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.\nIf you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. 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