Sr. Software Systems Engineer - Premarket Design Quality

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 Nov 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

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.

The Senior Software Systems Engineer on the Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health Premarket Design Quality team will partner with cross-functional development teams to ensure software and system-level design activities are planned, executed, and documented in compliance with applicable quality and regulatory requirements.

This role supports new product development by providing quality oversight and technical guidance throughout the design control lifecycle, with a focus on software-intensive medical device systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide design quality support for software and software-enabled medical device development programs from concept through transfer to manufacturing.
• Ensure compliance with applicable design control, software lifecycle, and risk management requirements.
• Review and contribute to system requirements, software requirements, architecture, and design documentation.
• Participate in the development of verification and validation strategies for software, system, and integration testing.
• Partner with engineering, product development, regulatory, clinical, manufacturing, and quality teams to resolve design quality issues.
• Evaluate software development deliverables for completeness, traceability, and regulatory readiness.
• Lead software-related risk evaluation and mitigation verification to support risk management activities, including hazard analysis
• Participate in design reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve product quality, safety, and compliance.
• Assist in root cause analysis and corrective action activities related to design or software quality issues.
• Mentor less experienced engineers on design quality practices, documentation expectations, and compliance requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives for design quality processes, tools, and templates.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience with design controls, software development lifecycle activities, and verification/validation.
• Strong understanding of risk management principles, design failure analysis concepts, and traceability across requirements, design, and testing.
• Experience supporting cross-functional product development teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in software engineering, systems engineering, design assurance, reliability, or quality engineering in a regulated industry.
• Experience in the medical device industry or another highly regulated environment.
• Knowledge of IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, FDA design control expectations, and related standards.
• Familiarity with agile development environments and how quality practices integrate into iterative development.
• Experience with AI used in process development and embedded in products
• Experience with software architecture reviews, cybersecurity considerations, or usability/human factors support.
• Advanced degree in engineering or a related discipline.

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. …