Principal R&D Engineer (PVH)

Location: Onsite in Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Salary: EUR 81,120–121,680 per year, plus eligibility for the hirify.global Incentive Plan.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies and medical devices, including products for peripheral vascular interventions.

What you will do

• Execute modelling and simulation strategies with cross-functional teams to optimize peripheral vascular device designs and evaluate reliability.
• Develop predictive engineering tools, techniques, algorithms, and scripts to support product development and automate finite element post-processing.
• Perform nonlinear finite element studies covering large deformation, complex multibody contact, dynamic impact, modal analysis, and multiaxial cyclic fatigue.
• Virtually design and prototype implants, delivery systems, and single-use devices for peripheral intervention.
• Convert patient-imaging-derived in-vivo loading modes into finite element boundary conditions and reconstruct patient anatomies into meshed models.
• Apply CFD and FSI tools to predict flow conditions and support model validation for peripheral vascular interventions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of industry experience, or a Master’s degree with 5 years of technical experience, or a PhD with 3 years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of the finite element method, commercially available finite element software, and fundamental engineering principles in mechanics and/or CFD and FSI.
• Experience applying fatigue analysis principles to metals, including superelastic and shape memory alloys, and simulating highly deformed metals, polymers, fabrics, biological tissue, and pulsatile flow conditions.
• Experience creating novel algorithms and scripts to automate post-processing of finite element output databases.
• Experience developing model-validation experiments, analogous finite element models, material-testing protocols for constitutive-model calibration, and FEA model validation.
• Experience developing hydrodynamic testing protocols, such as PIV, to validate CFD and/or FSI models.
• Familiarity with ASME VVUQ-10, VVUQ-20, and VVUQ-40 principles for establishing model credibility, including preparation of modelling and simulation engineering reports for product characterization, verification, and regulatory submissions.

Nice to have

• Significant experience with Abaqus, LS-DYNA, or similar FEA software; extensive experience meshing complex 3D structures; and experience with CAD software.
• Knowledge of engineering mechanics, mechanical design, material processing, fatigue analysis, metallurgy, and strength of materials.
• Knowledge and experience applying technical principles, theories, and design concepts to implantable product design, process development, technology development, and evaluation.
• Knowledge of risk management analysis, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and statistical techniques relevant to reliability design and testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
• Benefits and resources designed to support employees across career and life stages.
• Short-term incentive eligibility through the hirify.global Incentive Plan.
• Work focused on developing medical technologies that improve patient health and restore blood flow.