Lead Systems Engineer — Robotics Instrument Performance

Medtronic plc; Galway; On-site; EUR 81,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Galway, Ireland seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering for Robotics Capital & instrument performance within next-generation medical devices and robotic applications.

You will own test-to-requirement traceability, drive system-level trade-offs, and coordinate interfaces across instruments, capital equipment, and controls to ensure robust, compliant performance. Based at the Mervue Campus, Galway.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering or related engineering discipline with 7+ years of experience or Master’s with 5+ years.
• Experience applying systems-engineering methods to complex electromechanical, robotic, medical-device or similarly integrated products.
• Strong capability in requirements development, decomposition, allocation, interface definition and bidirectional traceability.
• Experience managing performance budgets and translating product needs into measurable targets and testable acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering for instrument performance from stakeholder needs and product requirements through architecture, integration and verification.
• Translate instrument and procedure needs into measurable system, subsystem and interface requirements with clear acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain performance budgets for accuracy, force, torque, motion, latency and reliability across instruments, capital equipment and controls.
• Own bidirectional traceability between requirements, risk controls, test methods and verification evidence.
• Define system boundaries and interfaces between instruments, capital platforms, sensing, actuation, software and controls.
• Lead architecture and trade-off analyses balancing performance, safety, reliability, usability, cost and programme risk.
• Plan and lead system integration, characterisation and verification using representative test environments and data-driven acceptance criteria.
• Lead complex root-cause investigations using structured problem-solving, experimental evidence and cross-domain analysis.
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, software, controls, test, quality, regulatory and manufacturing teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Lead requirements, interface, risk and technical-readiness reviews across the product-development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen systems practices and influence technical decisions across projects and programmes.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Requirements development

Bidirectional traceability

MBSE

Data analysis

Test automation

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering

Master’s degree in related field

Tools

Requirements tools

Data analysis tools

Test automation tools

Job description

Medtronic plc in Galway, Ireland seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering for Robotics Capital & instrument performance within next-generation medical devices and robotic applications.

You will own test-to-requirement traceability, drive system-level trade-offs, and coordinate interfaces across instruments, capital equipment, and controls to ensure robust, compliant performance. Based at the Mervue Campus, Galway.