Software Engineer - 3D Visualization (OpenGL)

As a Sr. Software Engineer - 3D Visualization (OpenGL) you will own significant features of the real-time 3D visualization at the center of every Prism Mapping procedure - the rendering of cardiac anatomy, catheter position, and electrical activity in motion.

A typical week mixes designing and extending rendering features in OpenGL and VTK, integrating them with Qt/QML application surfaces, optimizing GPU and CPU performance under real clinical workloads, and debugging the kinds of issues that only appear at full frame rate on production hardware. You'll partner with UI/UX engineers on the visual experience clinicians work in, with signals and algorithms engineers to render their outputs, and with hardware engineers when performance ties back to the underlying platform. You'll mentor newer engineers on rendering, shaders, and 3D math.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own significant rendering subsystems: anatomy rendering, signal/activation overlays, catheter visualization, interactive 3D camera and selection.

• Optimize the OpenGL/VTK rendering pipeline for real-time performance under realistic clinical workloads.

• Drive root cause on hard rendering problems: shader bugs, GPU memory issues, frame-rate cliffs, cross-driver behavior.

• Own features, components, or subsystems end-to-end.

• Determine the technical approach for complex component- and subsystem-level problems with limited supervision.

• Lead development across design, implementation, integration, and support for assigned areas.

• Contribute to software architecture, design improvements, engineering practices, and development processes.

• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and guidance.

• Collaborate effectively across software, systems, hardware, and quality in a regulated environment.

• Communicate technical issues, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to team members and stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience

• OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience

• OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong production experience with OpenGL, WebGL, Vulkan, DirectX, or comparable rendering API; experience with VTK or comparable 3D toolkits.

• Experience integrating real-time 3D rendering with Qt/QML application UIs.

• Comfort debugging at the GPU level: shaders, driver behavior, memory budgets, frame-rate analysis.

• Strong Python and/or C++ expertise, with a track record of delivering production software.

• Experience building large, complex software applications or subsystems.

• Experience with Linux, networking, and multi-device or distributed systems.

• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and automated testing.

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work effectively with ambiguity and incomplete information.

• Experience contributing to architecture, design standards, or technical direction within a team or subsystem.

• Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams in a regulated or quality-driven environment.

• Sets standards and best practices for effective use of AI development tools on the team. #LI-MDT

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.

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-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life-where your unique background and perspective are valued. 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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$124,800.00 - $187,200.00

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

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 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.

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

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 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're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.