Job Description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 26 Jun 2026

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Careers that Change Lives

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work.

Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Device Embedded System (DES) organization develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of patients across the world.

Join the PCS Software Released Product Engineering (RPE) leadership team, where our charter is to ensure continuity across the CRM instrument and software ecosystem—including legacy Device Managers, patient monitors, mobile applications, and instrument accessories.

We are seeking a highly motivated and accountable software leader who is passionate about sustaining critical products that support clinicians and improve patients’ quality of life.

In this role, you will lead the patient bedside monitor software organization. As a Senior Manager, you will own multi-year roadmaps of software engineering activities and releases to sustain product functionality, quality, and regulatory compliance across two to three patient bedside monitor platforms. With over 2.5 million monitors actively used worldwide, this role requires both strategic leadership and the ability to operate effectively in a highly dynamic, reactive environment—demonstrating technical depth, agility, and resilience.
You will be responsible for overall product quality, team staffing, and budget management. You will engage across all phases of the software development lifecycle in a fast-paced, collaborative, and impactful environment.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit. At 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 are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

A Day in the Life

The Functional Manager is accountable for the quarterly objectives and overall engagement of the organization. This includes responsibility for building and maintaining a team that consistently delivers embedded software functional excellence. The Functional Manager is ultimately accountable for their teams’ performance and execution. In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Software Engineering Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Lead the RPE bedside monitor software organization, including Medtronic engineers, contractors, and software vendors. Own product capability and release roadmaps, with accountability for planning, execution, and delivery within business-aligned budgets. Ensure Tier 2 customer product support remains a top priority.
• Partner closely with PCS Product Management to prioritize backlogs and shape them into executable multi-year roadmaps and release plans.
• Directly manage a team of 5–8 engineers and technicians, including performance management, compensation planning, career development, and ongoing coaching and feedback.
• Provide indirect leadership across cross-functional teams, including project managers, engineers, and external software vendors, with a strong focus on embedded systems, software platforms, deployment, and monitoring solutions.
• Deliver large, complex programs and multiple parallel releases—from defining unmet needs through development, manufacturing updates, and global deployment. Typically oversee a minimum of two releases per year. Currently preparing a major multi-year modernization program involving OS kernel upgrades, redesigned software capabilities, new deployment mechanisms, and test automation frameworks.
• Develop and manage plans, schedules, and budgets; track progress; communicate status; and proactively escalate risks and issues.
• Drive initiatives addressing hardware/software technology advancements, component obsolescence, and product continuity, while ensuring compliance with software, cybersecurity, and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate across cross-functional engineering teams (Software, Hardware, Security, Systems, Human Factors, Reliability, Regulatory, Quality, and Operations). Typical program team size ranges from 12–20, including global Medtronic team members, contractors, and vendors.
• Build and foster a high-performing, inclusive, and quality-focused culture by coaching and motivating global team members. Lead technical problem-solving and resolution activities, including CAPA (Corrective & Preventive Action) investigations and actions.
• Champion continuous improvement by leveraging lessons learned and industry best practices to enhance quality, efficiency, and team effectiveness.
• Maintain strong, collaborative relationships with external cellular, software, and technology vendors to ensure alignment, quality delivery, and long-term partnership success.
• Engage regularly with PCS business leaders and RPE peers to ensure alignment on product roadmaps, capabilities, and execution strategies in support of evolving business needs.

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Qualifications-

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and minimum of 7 years of technical work experience OR advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math, with 5 years of technical experience and 5 years of demonstrated managerial experience

Nice to Have

• Experience in Med-Tech.
• Experience as an embedded SW Leader or developer.
• Ability to manage geographically distributed SW development teams.
• Familiarity with design controls, standards and quality system regulations.
• Experience with or knowledge of CAPA processes.
• Energetic communication, leadership, documentation, and interpersonal skills to varied audiences and stakeholder groups.
• Business acumen: ability to think from a patient-first and overall “what’s best for the business” perspective.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The 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. (ADA-United States of America)

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.

Physical Job Requirements

The 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. 

The 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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At 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.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A 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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$175,200.00 - $262,800.00This 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).

The 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).

Regular 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.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here

It 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.