Junior/Mid Data Scientist, Digital Technologies

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

Five billion people have no access to safe surgery, and the Medtronic Digital Surgery Business is on a mission to change surgical care for the better through a portfolio of digital solutions. If you are looking for a real purpose behind what you do, this role is a genuine opportunity to make a difference.  

The Medtronic Surgical Business has created a digital data-driven ecosystem that uses the latest cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality and computer vision to enhance surgical devices in the operating room (OR). You will be working in a start-up environment within a large corporate organization where you will be trusted to make important decisions, with your impact seen worldwide. 
 

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

• Analyse surgical datasets generated from the Hugo™ robotic surgical platform.
• Serve important internal customers across the organization by delivering data insights.
• Build and maintain advanced data visualizations from complex datasets.
• Develop new analytics methods to derive insights from surgical data.
• Collaborate with clinical experts to validate conclusions and ensure the impact and relevance of data products.

Required Knowledge And Experience:

• MSc in a STEM subject, or at least one-year of professional experience as a data scientist or as a data analyst. 
• A love of well-designed data visualisations.  Experience with working with Dashboarding tools such as Tableau or PowerBI is a plus.   
• Experience working with clinical data.
• Practical experience with SQL; experience with SQL-data modelling in DBT is a plus. 
• Experience in writing clean, maintainable, and tested code, as well as code versioning tools. 
• Excellent communicator - You are comfortable talking to, and learning from programmers, surgeons, business leaders, and everyone in-between. 

Preferred skills include practical object-oriented programming experience in Python, with strong proficiency in key libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Scikit-learn. The ideal candidate should also have experience in UI/UX design for data visualizations, dashboards, and interactive graphics. Familiarity with data engineering principles, particularly in the design and maintenance of ETL/ELT pipelines, is important. Additionally, hands-on experience in developing custom visualizations using tools like Dash, Streamlit, Shiny, Panel, or Holoviz, along with deploying these solutions in cloud environments using technologies such as Docker, is highly valued.

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.
 

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