Medtronic Hiring For Senior Principal SW Systems Engineer at San Diego County, CA Full Time

As a Sr. Principal Software Systems Engineer, you will be a technical leader for developing requirements for integrated diabetes management solutions for helping people living with diabetes using multiple daily insulin injection therapy.  You will work with marketing and R&D product managers to architect the requirements for new features and systems, work through the risk management process to design in safety, work with software architects to break down responsibilities for various software components and work with designers to design user experiences that meet the requirements and ease the burden of diabetes management.  You will work with cybersecurity engineers to ensure the security of the system is robust and incorporate security requirements into the system.

You will work with the compliance team to ensure our risk management and design and development processes meet all applicable regulations, and update any documents as needed.

You will work with the technical teams to identify areas of technical risk and ensure that sufficient de-risking activities are on-going so that development programs meet the intended scope and schedule.

Come for a job, stay for a career.

The Diabetes Group is working with the global community to change the way people manage diabetes. Together, we will transform diabetes care by expanding access, integrating care, and improving outcomes so that people with diabetes can enjoy greater freedom and better health.

Our Research and Development organization focuses on addressing the needs of people living with diabetes as well as care givers and health care professionals.  Our goal is to develop systems to enable people living with diabetes to live a life without limits.

This position is based in our San Diego, CA office.

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.

A Day in the Life

• Work with clinical product managers to understand and document user needs.
• Work cross functionally to evaluate options to meet the user needs and select the method that is safe, effective and lowers the burden of daily diabetes management.
• Evaluate and document risks associated with the new feature and develop and document risk mitigations to increase safety of the system in the risk management file.
• Work with software architects to define responsibility of various components of the system for the feature.
•  Document requirements of new features in requirements specifications.
• Work with designers through the design process to translate the requirements into design and document the designs in a software design specification.
• Interface with the software development teams to answer questions, address requirement, design or risk gaps uncovered during implementation.
• Interface with the software test group for the development of test cases against the requirements and design.
• Review the delivery and ensure the finished product meets the user needs and requirements.
• Establishes the architecture for a technology group to allow for future iteration and feature expansion.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Documenting user needs
• Translating user needs into software requirements
• Working with risk management team to document risks and develop risk mitigations
• Working with software architects to determine responsibilities of components
• Documenting software requirements
• Working with designers to develop designs to meet user needs and software requirements
• Working with software development teams during implementation
• Working with software test team during test case development
• Reviewing completed work and assessing work against user needs, requirements and designs