Senior Software Manager - CRDN

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 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 LifeSenior Software Manager
Careers that Change Lives
Medtronic is a global leader in medical technology, services, and solutions that take on the healthcare industry's greatest challenges. Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join the Coronary & Renal Denervation team and help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology 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. Come for a job, stay for a career.
Treatments We Offer:
Renal Denervation
Key Technologies
Symplicity Spyral™ Renal Denervation (RDN) System
Medtronic’s Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) business is looking for a Senior Software Manager to be part of a high-performing team that is revolutionizing the design and development of energy-based therapeutic medical devices to treat hypertension. In this role, you will leverage both your technical breadth and business acumen to support the newly approved medical therapy device software, along with accessory digital solutions.
This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Interventional Cardiology Therapies Operating 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 Senior Software Engineering Manager will have full life cycle responsibility for a software product in the ICT portfolio and oversight of a team of software engineers who develop and support firmware, embedded, GUI and application software for stand-alone medical device and accessory digital solutions. You will be responsible for department processes, talent recruitment, performance and development, resource planning and prioritizing and directing the responsibilities of your team.
The Senior Software Manager partners closely with Product Teams leadership across entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) of products. In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Software Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
Lead a team of software engineers for capital equipment ((RF Generator) and accessory software, this encompasses development and support of firmware, embedded software and GUI for medical device; along with Windows applications and Cloud services.
Lead the Scrum Team through the SDLC for medical devices following IEC 62304/82304.
Work with different stakeholders and Cross-functional team to prioritize team work according to business needs.
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather input, provide updates, and align product strategies with their needs and expectations.
Decompose and elaborate on feature requirements and management of team backlog
Guide SW development scrum team in sprint and increment planning, championing and supervising value-focused capabilities.
Participate in Risk Assessment and requirements development.
Participate in the documentation of the software including architecture and design detail, unit testing, defect tracking and reports.
Accountable for the quality, robustness, predictability, and completeness of the team’s output, including tracking and reporting software quality metrics.
Accountable for your team’s compliance with internal design controls and medical device regulations and standards
Prepare team members for certification and regulatory audits. May represent the team’s work in audits.
Drive departmental excellence, proficiency, best practice, and consistency across project teams.
Anticipate the need for new development tools, methods, technologies, and processes.
Represent your team to the wider organization.
Mentor and coach your team members.
The successful candidate will have:
Experience building medical device software
Experience building Windows based applications and Cloud services
Experience leading agile software development teams
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 computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline and minimum of 7 years of work technical experience OR advanced degree in computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline with 5 years of technical work experience, and 5 years of managerial experience
Nice to Have
Familiarity with FDA submissions, design history files (DHF), and technical documentation
Experience in software architecture design, writing design documents, creating flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts.
Agile SAFe training/experience
Excellent collaboration skills across engineering, quality, and regulatory teams
Pragmatic decision‑making that balances compliance, security, and delivery velocity
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-

Skills
Agile, Scrum, Documentation