Senior AI Engineer (Optimization)

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.

A Day in the Life

Acquired by Medtronic – the world’s largest medical device company – in 2019, Digital Technologies is a part of the Surgical Robotics operating unit. The company was founded by two surgeons to realize the mission of bringing safe and standardized surgical care to patients around the world. 

As a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer, focused on algorithm optimization, you will help to design, implement, and optimize Machine Learning models to achieve low latency on edge and cloud devices. You will become part of a talented team exploring new concepts through fast iterative prototyping. You will collaborate as an AI optimization expert with our other machine learning engineers, platform engineers, embedded software engineers and research experts of the team. 

In our computer vision/machine learning team, you will be responsible for: 
•    Benchmarking and optimizing different existing network architectures and their latency in different target platforms 
•    Further re-designing or optimizing existing network architectures to improve their forward flow and reduce latency 
•    Developing production pipelines in the cloud or edge devices to process surgical videos in real-time with our optimized models 
•    Delivering well-written and high-quality code 
•    Sharing results during regular meetings 
•    Staying updated with state-of-the-art methods and propose novel approaches for problems at hand (we try to devote time to do research and share it with the team) 

Must Haves 
•    A Master or PhD in, Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Vision/Machine Learning or similar related field 
•    Proven ability to design and build computer vision networks using Pytorch 
•    Knowledge of different optimization methods (e.g. pruning, sparsity, quantization etc..) 
•    Experience with AI optimization tools (e.g. TensorRT) 
•    Very knowledgeable in Python and relevant numerical libraries (numpy, scikit-learn, opencv, etc.) 
•    Experience with CI/CD pipelines 
•    Computer Vision 

Nice to Haves
•    Advanced knowledge on AI-based optimization methods (QAT, Knowledge Distillation, Network Sparsification etc..) 
•    Knowledge of AWS cloud and experience with their services (EKS, ECS, ...) and docker 
•    Knowledge of C++ and CUDA, and ideally experience writing custom kernels / operators 
•    Data visualization experience would also be useful for this role 
•    Excellent communicator - You are comfortable talking with programmers, marketers, surgeons, business leaders, and everyone in-between 
•    Experience of working in video processing or equivalent performance sensitive or high-performance applications 

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. 

Benefits & Compensation

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.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

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 90,000+ 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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here