Medtronic aims to contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. In order to recognize the personal worth of all employees, Medtronic provides an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success. If you consider joining the team and you are committed to do a meaningful work, make a difference, and improve lives, you will find a culture of collaboration and innovation at Medtronic. Starting the road to your rewarding career with them will come with competitive pay, bonuses, and benefits supporting your work-life balance.

*This position would sit onsite at our Newton, MA office (320 Nevada St # 401, Newton, MA 02460) with potential to work a hybrid schedule. 

The Affera™ Prism-1 Mapping Software is a 3D visualization software used for mapping of electrical activity in the heart, navigating catheters within the heart chambers, streaming intra cardiac and surface lead electrograms and annotating 3D and 2D data points. The Mapping Software and system as a whole integrates with the Affera™ Ablation System to record ablation telemetry and annotate in 3D regions where energy delivery is applied.

As a Senior Signal Processing Engineer, you will be developing the next generation technology for treatment of heart rhythm disorders. You will be responsible for developing novel signal processing algorithms and software for computing signals and 3D heart models that are displayed to the physician during cardiac ablation procedures.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing, developing, and testing real-time, high-performance, high-reliability code for digital signal processing and computational algorithms. The ideal candidate can take ownership of key software features while working collaboratively with other engineering teams and is passionate about working on a product that will have a positive impact on the lives of millions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and test signal processing filters and algorithms, implemented as high-performance high-reliability production code for a medical device.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering team on electronics and firmware to support signal processing needs.
• Manage the signal processing pipelines within Affera software products.
• Performance verification and validation of signal processing and computational algorithms.
• Design, develop, and test computational geometry algorithms.
• Analyze bench, preclinical, and clinical data to inform design decisions and verification activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of signal processing fundamentals including filter design (continuous and discrete) and statistics.
• Understanding or interest in learning computational geometry concepts and algorithms.
• Hands on R&D experience, ideally working with custom/prototype hardware.
• Proficiency with software development on Linux operating system.
• Experience programming in C .
• Ability to work in an agile development environment.
• Strong work ethic and entrepreneurial drive.
• Learn under the guidance of some of the industry's prominent experts in the field of medical device engineering.
• Bright, motivated co-workers in a fun and collaborative office environment.
• Competitive salary, 401k, and generous medical coverage to suit your needs.