Software Engineer - C++ / Video Processing

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.

Are you interested in developing real-time AI and video processing pipelines for the operating room? Do you like the challenge of optimising performance for edge devices? Do you enjoy working with a dynamic team with a technically diverse skill set? 

Digital Surgery is developing new products to provide real-time guidance and decision support inside the operating room. As a 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 optimisation.
• Excellent knowledge of software design principles and C++ design patterns.  
• Experience with real time video pipelines.
• Experience with NVIDIA NPP, Intel MKL, BLAS libraries is a plus.
• Experience developing or implementing real-time image processing algorithms using hardware acceleration is preferred.
• Ability to write clear, maintainable and well-documented code. 
• Capability to work independently, driving development from concept to production.
• Strong communication skills.

Preferred skills include experience with medical-grade quality processes, ensuring compliance with strict regulatory and safety standards, along with a solid understanding of video compression and coding technologies such as H.264, H.265, and VP9. Additionally, a strong working knowledge of Linux is highly valued, supporting efficient system development, troubleshooting, and deployment.

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. 

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.
 

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.

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