Robotics Systems Engineer – Medical Instrument Performance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Benefits Package

Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)

Job summary

Medtronic in Galway, Ireland, seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering for robotics capital equipment and instrument performance in next‑generation medical devices and robotic applications. The role connects instrument requirements to measurable performance and translates user, product and subsystem needs into testable system requirements and verification strategies.

The successful candidate will own test-to-requirement traceability, manage boundary interfaces and lead

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree with 5+ years.
• Experience applying systems-engineering methods to complex electromechanical, robotic, medical-device products.
• Strong capabilities in requirements development, decomposition, allocation, interface definition and traceability.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering for instrument performance from stakeholder needs through architecture, integration and verification.
• Translate instrument and procedure needs into measurable system, subsystem and interface requirements with clear criteria.
• Develop and maintain performance budgets for accuracy, force, torque, motion, latency and reliability.
• 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 risk.
• Plan and lead system integration, characterization and verification with data-driven acceptance criteria.
• Lead root-cause investigations using structured problem-solving and cross-domain analysis.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, controls, test, quality, regulatory and manufacturing teams.
• Lead reviews across the product-development lifecycle and mentor engineers.

Skills

Requirements development

Decomposition

Bidirectional traceability

Systems modelling

MBSE

Data analysis

Test automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering

Master’s degree

Tools

Requirements tools

MBSE tools

Job description

Medtronic in Galway, Ireland, seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering for robotics capital equipment and instrument performance in next‑generation medical devices and robotic applications. The role connects instrument requirements to measurable performance and translates user, product and subsystem needs into testable system requirements and verification strategies.

The successful candidate will own test-to-requirement traceability, manage boundary interfaces and lead