Software Engineering Manager

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.

About the role

Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey. Our Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) Operating Unit develops and delivers an integrated ecosystem of spinal implants, navigation and robotic guidance systems, advanced imaging, and data-driven planning tools for complex spine and cranial procedures. Platforms such as AiBLE™ connect these technologies to enhance surgical precision, streamline workflows, and support improved patient outcomes worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Cross-functional product leadership: Partner with R&D, quality, regulatory, product management, systems engineering, and program teams to align software development priorities with product development initiatives and business objectives.
• Talent acquisition and onboarding: Recruit, hire, and onboard software engineering talent with strong technical depth, sound engineering judgment, and practical experience applying AI-assisted development tools in professional software environments.
• Team development: Coach and develop reporting staff through regular feedback, career planning, technical mentorship, and opportunities to build modern software engineering capabilities, including responsible use of AI-enabled tools.
• Extended workforce leadership: Recruit, engage, and direct third-party and contractor resources as needed, ensuring external contributors follow software development, quality, cybersecurity, and documentation expectations.
• Engineering execution and strategy: Lead and mentor software engineers to deliver strong organizational performance, grow individual capability, and advance the team’s technical strategy across architecture, development practices, automation, and delivery excellence.
• Process maturity and quality: Improve software development processes and quality metrics in partnership with R&D leadership to meet customer expectations for reliability, safety, cybersecurity, maintainability, and system performance.
• Customer and field issue resolution: Analyze, diagnose, and resolve customer problem reports in close collaboration with product support, quality, systems, and sustaining engineering teams.
• AI-assisted engineering practices: Establish practical guidance for using AI-enabled development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI-based solutions, and similar model-driven capabilities to support code generation, refactoring, test creation, documentation, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity.
• Local LLM enablement: Evaluate and apply local or privately hosted large language models where appropriate to support secure engineering workflows, protect sensitive intellectual property, reduce external data exposure, and enable experimentation within approved cybersecurity and compliance boundaries.
• Develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems.
• Establish software reliability mechanisms and standards for company products.
• Oversee the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.
• Guide the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes and/or products.
• Lead the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.
• Manage feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.
• Monitor and support the delivery of documentation throughout all phases of research and development.
• Organize the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.
• Select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Manage people, including accountability for mentoring, developing, and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department-level initiatives, defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and managing staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR advanced degree with 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading and managing the execution of processes, projects and tactics within Software Engineering.
• For 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.

Qualifications

• Strong organization acumen with the ability to communicate effectively to non-technical audiences.
• Deep expertise in software test methodologies, quality standards/metrics (e.g. IEC 62304).
• Experience with APIs, SDKs, and AI tools that improve the speed, quality, and precision of software development.
• Experience developing software in a regulated environment.
• Proven track record as a successful software engineer.
• Experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, and site reliability engineering.

Benefits

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
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans (Medtronic Incentive Plan - MIP)
• 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)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Pay

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $150,400.00 - $225,600.00. This 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.