AI/Data Science Team Manager

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
In this role, you will join a world-class team of engineers within the Surgical Operating unit responsible for developing medical devices that focus on lung cancer diagnosis.
Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is a new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions to benefit our customers and patients.

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”

Join a growing Algorithm team at the forefront of AI innovation in real-time medical interventional procedures. In this role, you will tackle complex technical challenges, shape solutions with meaningful clinical impact, and help define the next generation of intelligent medical technologies. You will be part of an innovation-driven environment that encourages curiosity, bold thinking, and continuous learning, while working alongside talented and supportive people who are committed to both professional excellence and personal growth. Together, you will contribute to technology that has the potential to make a real difference in patients’ lives.

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

Lead a team of high-performing researchers to develop innovative algorithmic solutions that support and advance our medical device from the fields of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Image Processing
Represent the algorithm team in global forums and communicate ongoing progress, key results, risks, and challenges to global stakeholders
Lead the algorithm development lifecycle: research, design, implement, validate, document and optimize algorithms for our products
Provide technical direction and mentorship to algorithm developers; conduct design/code reviews and ensure best practices and high-quality deliverables
Partner with Data, Software, Systems, Clinical, and Product teams to define requirements, plan milestones, manage risks, and drive end-to-end delivery from prototyping to production

Required Knowledge and Experience:

B.Sc. in Computer Science/Software Engineering/EE/other relevant field or equivalent work experience – Must
MSc. or PhD in Computer Science/Software Engineering/EE/other relevant field - Advantage
Proficiency and proven experience in developing, optimizing, validating, and deploying machine learning algorithms, deep learning techniques, and AI models to production
Passion for continuous learning and staying updated on AI advancements and trends
7+ years of R&D experience (algorithms / ML), including ownership of end-to-end delivery
Proven leadership experience (team lead / tech lead), including mentoring, prioritization, and driving execution across multiple stakeholders
3+ years of hands-on experience in Python (ability to lead by example with production-quality code)
Team player with very strong leadership and communication skills; able to influence and align across R&D and cross-functional stakeholders
Structured problem solver with sound technical judgment and data-driven decision making
High ownership: able to plan, prioritize, and drive tasks end-to-end while unblocking others and managing risks

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.

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