Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Medtronic • Fridley, MN

19h • Onsite

About The Position

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 20 Aug 2026 Careers that change lives start here. 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. A Day in the Life As one of three comprehensive portfolios at Medtronic, Neuroscience is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with neurological disorders, spine conditions, and chronic pain. Guided by our Mission—to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—we develop technologies and therapies that help people regain function, reduce pain, and return to the activities that matter most. Our Pelvic Health operating unit advances care for bladder and bowel control conditions through restorative, minimally invasive neuromodulation therapies. By modulating sacral and peripheral nerves, we deliver personalized, programmable solutions backed by strong clinical evidence to help restore function and improve quality of life. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic Pelvic Health As a Sr. Principal Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and verify web and mobile software solutions that advance Pelvic Health Therapies. Working in a highly regulated medical device environment, you will contribute to the full software development lifecycle - from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, verification, and product release. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Systems, Electrical Engineering, Security, and Quality, to deliver safe, reliable, and innovative therapy solutions while ensuring compliance with medical device regulations and quality standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience OR Masters degree with 8 years of relevant experience OR PhD with 6 years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing embedded software using C and C++.
• Strong knowledge of embedded systems design, low-level firmware development, device drivers, peripherals, and communication protocols.
• Experience developing software for medical devices or other regulated products, with a solid understanding of applicable software development processes and quality standards.
• Experience developing and debugging Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) embedded firmware, including wireless communication protocols, device connectivity, power optimization, and interoperability across mobile and embedded platforms.
• Experience partnering with Systems Engineering, Verification & Validation, Human Factors, Quality, and other cross-functional stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Experience authoring software requirements and translating them into comprehensive verification strategies, test designs, and test cases.
• Experience participating in the complete software development lifecycle, from planning and design through implementation, verification, and product release.
• Familiarity with regulated software development environments and industry standards for medical device software.
• Knowledge of Medtronic Neuro devices, programs, and associated software applications is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision, design and development of solutions that are a combination of web and mobile platforms.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in mobile application architecture, distributed systems, and modern web technologies.
• Lead technical evaluations, architecture reviews, and design decisions for strategic initiatives in collaboration with architects, system engineers and product owners
• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and development frameworks across teams
• Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools and utilities.
• Determines systems software design requirements.
• Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.
• Generates systems software engineering policies, standards and procedures.
• May work across a variety of software lifecycle activities as determined by program needs.

Benefits

• 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
• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal