Staff Test Engineer

MMI - Medical Microinstruments, Inc.; Pisa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers

LinkedIn Learning

Health insurance

Modern office Pisa

Diverse environment

Job summary

MMI - Medical Microinstruments, Inc. is seeking a Staff Test Engineer in Pisa, Italy to lead cross-project verification activities for the Symani microsurgery platform and related products.

You will define test strategy, plan resources, and build reusable verification capabilities across laboratories and campaigns. You will coach engineers and technicians, coordinate with partners, and ensure data integrity, safety, and regulatory-aligned testing in a fast-paced medical device environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading verification across multiple projects.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.
• Ability to coordinate with vendors and partners.
• Ownership across lifecycle phases.
• Cross-functional collaboration and coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-project verification capability.
• Test strategy and planning across projects including resources and schedules.
• Establish reusable V&V protocols, methods, tools and equipment.
• Oversee dry runs and readiness reviews.
• Coordinate compliant execution, evidence, deviations and retest rationale.
• Lead specialized testing including safety, reliability and regulatory requirements.
• Manage consultants and partners for test execution and validation.
• Transfer and sustaining verification for production readiness and end-of-line testing.
• Coach engineers, associates and technicians; build reusable methods and assets.

Skills

Test strategy

Cross-project leadership

Data integrity

Communication

Coaching

Risk management

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Automation tools

Measurement equipment

Lab infrastructure

Job description

Want to join a motivated team of 200+ people who are dedicated to improving patient care through surgical robotics? Interested in working in the fast-paced, medical device industry?

MMI is looking for people with a passion for innovation and a dedication to excellence.

Founded in 2015 in Pisa Italy, MMI is dedicated to improving reconstructive microsurgery options for surgeons and patients and has developed the first teleoperated robotic platform for open microsurgery. MMI’s Symani Surgical System offers surgeons motion scaling and tremor elimination and aims to facilitate existing procedures as well as enable new ones in the domain of microsurgery, from post-oncological and trauma reconstructions to ophthalmology, organ transplantation and pediatric surgery. Approved with a CE mark in Europe currently, MMI is now FDA Approved in the United States for the Symani System.

We are looking for a Staff Test Engineer

The Staff Test Engineer leads complex cross-project verification activities and builds reusable verification capability across products, laboratories, or multiple test campaigns. The role establishes common approaches for test strategy, protocols, methods, measurement systems, equipment, automation, dry runs, controlled execution, evidence generation, reporting, specialized testing, partner coordination, transfer activities, and laboratory capability, while coaching engineers, associates, and technicians and ensuring technical rigor, traceability, safety, and data integrity.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead complex cross-project verification capability.
• Test strategy and planning: Lead test planning across projects, including resources, schedules, make-or-buy decisions, test coverage and requirement mapping.
• Protocols, methods, tools and test articles: Establish reusable approaches for V&V protocols, methods, measurement systems, tools, automation and test articles, including their development or procurement, preparation, qualification, control, maintenance and disposition.
• Dry runs and readiness: Lead across projects and establish reusable approaches for dry-run plans/records, protocol maturity, setup readiness, operator competency, prerequisites and test readiness reviews.
• Controlled execution, deviations and evidence: Lead across projects and establish reusable approaches for compliant protocol execution, test records and observations, deviations, anomalies, failures, retest rationale, equipment/method impact, data analysis and integrity, and pass/fail decisions.
• Specialized testing, reports and standards: Lead across projects and establish reusable approaches for specialized testing—including risk-control, fault-injection, safety, EMC, performance, software-system, reliability, durability, environmental, transport, regression and complaint reproduction—and for verification, campaign, standards and external-laboratory reports, evidence indexes, corrective retest packages and regulatory-submission support.
• Consultants and partners: Define partner strategy, lead sourcing and govern multi-party delivery for consultants or partners for test execution and for test tool/equipment design and validation.
• Transfer and sustaining: Lead across projects and establish reusable approaches for production-test requirements, end-of-line methods, fixture transfer, correlation, golden samples, training, change impact and sustaining verification.
• Laboratory capability: Lead across projects and establish reusable approaches for equipment/method registers, safety, competencies, authorizations, reusable methods/fixtures, automation framework, metrics, dashboards and lessons
• learned.
• Coach Engineers, Associates and Technicians; establish communities, reusable methods and assets.

Requirements

• Relevant engineering degree or equivalent preparation.
• Test methods, instrumentation, fixtures, automation, data and verification competence.
• Demonstrated ownership across lifecycle phases.
• Deep cross-project expertise.
• Coaching and influence without formal authority.
• Clear written and verbal communication (English is a must).
• Constructive cross-functional collaboration.
• Timely escalation of technical, safety and evidence risks.
• Learning mindset and openness to review.

Preferred

• Knowledge of industry practices and working knowledge of Medical Device regulations (EU and FDA)
• Experienced with ISO 14971 Risk Management and ISO 13485 Quality Management Systems
• Inter-disciplinary understanding of robotics, electronics, software and control

What we offer:

• Meal vouchers (Ticket Restaurant)
• Access to premium learning platforms: LinkedIn Learning for development
• Supplementary health insurance
• A vibrant, modern office space in Pisa
• An international, dynamic, and inclusive work environment

Join Us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a med-tech company with the aim of improving patient care?

Join us and grow with a team of energy people who will motivate and inspire you!

Interested? We would love to hear from you!

MMI is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, disability or other characteristics protected by law.