Sr Electronics Hardware Engineer

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

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Ireland is seeking a hands-on Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer to develop electronic hardware for medical devices and physiological monitoring products. You will take technical ownership across the full product lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through circuit design, PCB layout, prototype bring-up, verification, manufacturing release, and lifecycle support.

The role requires strong expertise in analog, digital, power and mixed-signal design, ECAD with Altium

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electronic or Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• Typically 5+ years of relevant product-development experience.
• Hands-on experience in analog, digital, power, sensor-interface, and mixed-signal circuit design.
• Proficiency with Altium Designer for schematic and PCB layout.
• Experience with IEC 60601-1/60601-1-2 medical-device standards.

Responsibilities

• Design analog, digital, power, sensor-interface, and mixed-signal electronics for medical products and physiological monitoring systems.
• Own complete PCB and PCBA development from requirements to manufacturing release.
• Perform multilayer PCB stack-up, routing, grounding, shielding, power distribution, and thermal design.
• Conduct circuit simulation, tolerance analysis, design-margin assessment.
• Apply SI/PI, EMC, ESD, electrical safety, DFM, DFA, and DFT principles.

Skills

Analog/digital/mixed-signal design

PCB development/bring-up

Altium Designer

Python/LabVIEW for hardware tests

System-level hardware integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electronic/Electrical 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. Recruitment Fraud Alert We are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind: Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses. Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate. 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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. 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. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. 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. 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