Senior/Principal AI Engineer (AI Framework)

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 Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer, focused in developing an AI framework, you will help to design, implement, and maintain our internal AI development library and tool ecosystem. You will become part of a talented team exploring new concepts through fast iterative prototyping. You will collaborate as an AI software expert with our other machine learning engineers, platform engineers and research experts of the team.

In our computer vision/machine learning team, you will be responsible for: 
•    Building and maintaining our common code base for the development of AI models 
•    Re-designing, improving and/or optimizing the way AI models are built and data is stored/managed during training 
•    Working closely to the team to optimize training cycles so that we can make the most of our HW infrastructure 
•    Accelerating model development by delivering high quality and easy to use tools 
•    Delivering well-written and high-quality code 
•    Presenting your results (we share our findings with team mostly during our catch-up meetings) 
•    Requiring keeping yourself updated with state-of-the-art ML libraries and implementation of new paradigm to improve internal processes 

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 
•    Proficient in Python and managing multi-repo libraries with large codebases 
•    Excellent software engineer with knowledge of good software development practices 
•    Knowledge of AI model training and validation processes, libraries and common optimization frameworks 
•    Experience with CI/CD pipelines 

Nice to Haves
•    Knowledge of AWS cloud and experience with their services (EKS, ECS, ...) and docker 
•    Knowledge of C++ and CUDA, and ideally experience writing customer kernels / operators 
•    Proficiency in distributed AI training techniques and parallel processing methods 
•    Knowledge of recent Deep Learning and Computer Vision architectures 
•    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 

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