Senior Software Engineer – C++ / Video Processing

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Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.

As a Senior Software Engineer working on the real-time video processing team, you’ll be helping to develop high-performance video and AI processing pipelines for use in the operating room. We’re looking for someone experienced with real-time video manipulation and parallel processing who is comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Leverage hardware acceleration to develop high-performance, low-latency video capture, processing, AI inference, visualization and streaming software.
• Design, implement, and optimise video processing pipelines running on computing systems deployed in the operating room.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop robust and safe-by-design software for a medical device.
• Maintain a high level of quality and reliability in submitted code and participate in team code reviews .

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Excellent C++ development & debugging skills with C++17-23, multi-threading, inter-process communication and performance optimization.  
• Excellent knowledge of software design principles and C++ design patterns.  
• Experience with real time video pipelines. 
• Ability to write clear, maintainable and well-documented code.  
• Capability to work independently, driving development from concept to production.  
• Strong communication skills.
• Must be able to commute to London-based office; 2 days per week onsite.

Preferred skills include experience with NVIDIA NPP, Intel MKL, and BLAS libraries; experience developing or implementing real-time image processing algorithms using hardware acceleration; experience with medical-grade quality processes; knowledge of video compression and coding standards such as H.264, H.265, and VP9; and good knowledge of Linux.

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. 

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