Sr Electronics Hardware Engineer

Medtronic; Connacht; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in Ireland seeks a hands-on Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer to develop medical-device electronics across the full lifecycle. You will own PCB/PCBA development, from requirements and schematic capture to bring-up, verification, and manufacturing release, while guiding a multidisciplinary team.

Required are a strong background in analog/digital/mixed-signal design, multilayer PCB expertise, and hands-on lab skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electronic Engineering or related discipline with 5+ years of relevant product development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in analog, digital, power, sensor-interface, and mixed-signal circuit design.
• Proven ability to deliver complete PCBAs from requirements to manufacturing release.
• Experience with IEC 60601 medical-device development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design analog, digital, power, sensor-interface, and mixed-signal electronics for medical products and physiological monitoring systems.
• Own complete PCB and PCBA development through lifecycle phases.
• Perform multilayer PCB stack-up definition, routing, grounding, shielding, and thermal design.
• Develop hardware test cases, fixtures, and automated tests using Python and/or LabVIEW.
• Lead prototype bring-up, electrical characterization, debugging, failure analysis, and root-cause investigations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to resolve complex product-development challenges.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and drive design improvements.

Skills

Analog circuit design

Digital circuit design

Power electronics

Sensor-interface design

Multilayer PCB design

ECAD (Altium Designer)

Signal integrity

EMC/ESD

Python/LabVIEW test automation

Prototype bring-up

Failure analysis

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

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

The Physiological Sensing R&D team develops technologies that measure and interpret physiological signals to improve patient outcomes. Our portfolio includes anesthesia and depth-of-sedation monitoring, respiratory monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, EEG-based devices, and clinical decision-support solutions.

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer to develop electronic hardware for medical devices and physiological monitoring products.

You will take technical ownership of complex electronics across the full product lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through circuit design, PCB layout, prototype bring-up, verification, manufacturing release, and lifecycle support.

This is an end-to-end hardware development role requiring the ability to personally deliver safe, reliable, testable, and manufacturable PCB assemblies while providing technical leadership within a multidisciplinary team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design analog, digital, power, sensor-interface, and mixed-signal electronics for medical products and physiological monitoring systems.
• Own complete PCB and PCBA development, including requirements, schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout, design review, prototype bring-up, verification, manufacturing release, and lifecycle support.
• Personally perform multilayer PCB stack-up definition, component placement, routing, grounding, shielding, power distribution, electrical isolation, controlled-impedance design, and thermal implementation.
• Perform circuit simulation, tolerance and worst-case analysis, component derating, and design-margin assessment to demonstrate design robustness.
• Apply signal-integrity, power-integrity, EMC, ESD, electrical-safety, DFM, DFA, and DFT principles to achieve reliable, manufacturable, and testable designs.
• Create and verify ECAD libraries, bills of materials, fabrication and assembly drawings, and complete manufacturing-output packages.
• Lead prototype bring-up, electrical characterization, systematic debugging, failure analysis, and root-cause investigation using appropriate laboratory equipment.
• Develop hardware test cases, fixtures, and automated laboratory tests using Python and/or LabVIEW, including instrument control, data acquisition, analysis, and reporting.
• Develop verification protocols, acceptance criteria, and test reports traceable to hardware requirements and risk controls.
• Develop medical-device electronics in accordance with applicable IEC 60601 requirements, particularly IEC 60601-1 for basic safety and essential performance and IEC 60601-1-2 for electromagnetic compatibility.
• Contribute to design controls, requirements traceability, design FMEA, fault analysis, risk-control implementation, and risk-control verification.
• Support prototype builds, manufacturing transfer, production testing, yield improvement, component obsolescence, second-source qualification, and controlled design changes.
• Collaborate with systems, software, algorithms, mechanical, test, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, and sourcing teams to resolve complex product-development challenges.
• Lead technical reviews, communicate evidence-based recommendations, drive design improvements, and mentor less-experienced engineers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, with typically 5 or more years of relevant product-development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in analog, digital, power, sensor-interface, and mixed-signal circuit design.
• Proven ability to independently deliver complete PCBAs from requirements and schematic capture through PCB placement, routing, bring-up, verification, and manufacturing release.
• Proficiency with a professional ECAD platform, preferably Altium Designer, including schematic design, PCB layout, library management, design-rule configuration, and manufacturing-output generation.
• Strong practical knowledge of multilayer PCB design, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, controlled impedance, EMC, ESD, electrical isolation, creepage, clearance, and thermal design.
• Practical medical-device development experience with IEC 60601-1 and IEC 60601-1-2, including electrical safety, essential performance, EMC, and associated verification activities.
• Hands-on experience with Python and/or LabVIEW for hardware test automation, instrument control, data acquisition, analysis, and reporting.
• Strong laboratory capability in prototype bring-up, electrical characterization, systematic debugging, failure analysis, and root-cause investigation.
• Ability to resolve complex multidisciplinary problems, communicate technical risks and trade-offs, lead hardware work packages, and mentor other engineers.
• Experience with physiological monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, EEG-based devices, respiratory monitoring, optical sensing, biopotential acquisition, low-noise analog front ends, photodiode

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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 64,640.00 EUR - 96,960.00 EUR |

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).