Sr. Software Engineering Manager - Cardiac Ablation Solutions

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 8 Sep 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.

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’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

The Senior Engineering Manager, Software Development will lead a team responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software for the Affera mapping system. This role will provide technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional execution oversight to deliver safe, high-quality, and innovative software solutions that support product performance, regulatory compliance, and business objectives.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience leading software engineering teams in a regulated environment, with strong expertise in software architecture, product development, testing methodologies, and team development.

The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart’s electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm.

• Lead and develop a high-performing software engineering team responsible for core product software.
• Define technical direction, development priorities, and execution plans in alignment with product and business strategy.
• Support planning and execution of release milestones, risk management, defect resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Recruit, coach, mentor, and retain engineering talent.
• Champion best practices in software development, architecture, cybersecurity, testability, and documentation.
• Contribute to product strategy through technical assessment, roadmap input, and tradeoff analysis.

• Experience with Python and C++
• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience
• OR advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience

• Experience with embedded software, real-time systems, imaging, mapping, or medical device platforms.
• Familiarity with software quality processes and regulatory frameworks relevant to medical devices.
• Preference for working with agile development methodologies.
• Prior leadership in platform or product software organizations with multiple contributors and dependencies.
• Experience supporting fielded products, sustaining engineering, and post-market software issues.

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