Senior Systems Engineer - ACM

Medtronic plc; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible Benefits Package

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Ireland is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Physiologic Sensing R&D team. You will develop, decompose, and maintain system requirements for physiologic monitoring technologies, ensuring traceability from user needs to design and verification.

The role requires leading risk management activities, creating test strategies, and collaborating across engineering disciplines to ensure robust design decisions that meet regulatory expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field.
• Experience with risk management for regulated products (ISO 14971).
• Experience developing system requirements and maintaining traceability.

Responsibilities

• Define, integrate, and validate system and subsystem requirements for physiologic monitoring technologies.
• Support risk management activities including hazard analysis and FMEA/FMECA.
• Define system-level tests and verification strategies; manage design reviews and design control deliverables.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Risk management

V&V planning

Quality systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering degree

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field

Tools

Polarion

Jama

Job description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life Medtronic At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. Our Purpose The Physiological Sensing R&D team is dedicated to the end-to-end development, continuous advancement, and clinical validation of innovative monitoring technologies that measure, interpret, and leverage physiological signals to improve patient outcomes. Their expertise spans anesthesia and depth of sedation monitoring, respiratory monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, and the integration of predictive algorithms and clinical decision support solutions. By focusing on non-invasive, real-time technologies, they empower clinicians with actionable insights in surgery, critical care, and other high-risk settings. Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of: The Senior Systems Engineer defines, integrates, and validates complex physiologic monitoring systems within the Medtronic ACM organization. This role is responsible for developing and managing system and subsystem requirements, supporting risk management, defining system‑level tests to characterize and verify performance, and maintaining end‑to‑end traceability across the product lifecycle. Develop, decompose, and maintain clear, testable system and subsystem requirements for physiologic monitoring technologies. Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to translate user and clinical needs into system architectures and requirements. Establish and maintain requirements traceability from user needs through design, implementation, verification, and risk controls. Lead and contribute to risk management activities, including hazard analysis, FMEA/FMECA, and ensuring linkage between risks, mitigations, and verification evidence. Define and develop system‑level test strategies and test cases to characterize system functionality, performance, and interoperability. Analyze test data, investigate issues, and drive resolution of system‑level defects and integration problems. Support design reviews, technical documentation, and design control deliverables in accordance with Medtronic quality and regulatory requirements. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across disciplines to ensure cohesive system integration and robust design decisions.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong background in systems engineering for complex electro‑mechanical, software‑enabled, or medical device systems.
• Demonstrated experience developing structured requirements (e.g., using Polarion, Jama, or similar tools) and managing requirements baselines and changes.
• Proven ability to maintain traceability between requirements, design elements, test cases, and risk controls.
• Hands‑on experience with risk management for regulated products (e.g., ISO 14971 or equivalent practices), including hazard analysis and failure mode analysis.
• Expertise in system‑level verification and validation, including test plan development, test execution oversight, and results analysis.
• Familiarity with quality systems and design control for medical devices or similarly regulated industries.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field; advanced degree and prior experience in physiologic or patient monitoring systems strongly preferred.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package #LI-Hybrid

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

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. Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 64,640.00 EUR - 96,960.00 EUR | The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

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. 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 It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here.