Machine Learning Researcher

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 the AI research team at Medtronic’s AI Center Of Excellence, we’re pioneering the next generation of visual intelligence solutions that power medical device applications across visual intelligence, robotics, augmented reality, digital twins, and beyond. Our culture thrives on experimentation, collaboration, and bringing cutting‑edge research into production‑grade systems that make a real-world impact and help improve and save lives.

We’re seeking a Mid to Senior Machine Learning Engineer with deep expertise in computer vision. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy state‑of‑the‑art vision algorithms on medical data such as endoscopy, X-rays, CT, MRI data. You’ll work closely with a talented team of AI researchers to turn novel ideas into products across the company together with business unit teams.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Algorithm Development: Research, implement, and optimize algorithms for object detection, image segmentation, image classification, multi-view stereo, structure-from-motion (SfM), depth estimation, surface reconstruction, and volumetric modeling.
• Model Training & Evaluation: Design experiments, select architectures (e.g., CNNs, transformers, NeRFs, 3D/4D Gaussian splatting), and manage data pipelines for large-scale image and point‑cloud datasets.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, modular, and well‑tested code in Python.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with domain experts to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Research & Innovation: Stay current with academic and industry advances; prototype novel techniques, publish findings, and contribute to patent filings as appropriate.
• Mentorship: Guide junior engineers and interns, conduct code reviews, and share best practices in algorithm design and software engineering.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related field (Ph.D. a plus).
• 4+ years of hands‑on experience in computer vision research and product development.
• Proficiency in Python, experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Deep understanding of multi-view geometry, photogrammetry, SLAM, or related topics.
• Experience with point‑cloud processing libraries (e.g., PCL, Open3D) and mesh/volume representations.
• Strong grasp of neural rendering techniques (e.g., Neural Radiance Fields) is highly desirable.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Accurate, Analytical, Pro-active, Hands-on, pragmatic, resilient.
• Dare to enter uncharted territory, feeling comfortable with uncertainty.
• Passionate about continuously learning and staying up to date with SOTA.
• View problems as an opportunity to improve.
• Great team member who wants to help others.

Desirable qualifications:
Published papers or open‑source contributions in top-tier CV/ML conferences (e.g., NeuroIPS, CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH). Experience with real‑time systems. Knowledge of advanced sensors and sensor fusion techniques. Experience with 3D reconstruction. Proficiency in C++. Familiarity with GPU programming (CUDA) and inference optimization (TensorRT, ONNX Runtime). Solid software engineering skills: version control (Git), CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure).

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 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.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

• Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
• Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
• Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
• Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.