Principal Equipment Engineer (Test Systems) - Surgical

Location: Mervue Campus, Galway, Ireland. Flexible work arrangement.

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

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies focused on alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life, serving patients across more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end industrialization of end-of-line manufacturing test systems from prototype and pilot-line deployment through qualified manufacturing release and replication.
• Define test-system requirements, measurement architecture, test methods, equipment specifications, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead integration of fixtures, load systems, sensors, instrumentation, electrical hardware, motion control, data acquisition, and test software.
• Drive debugging, characterization, calibration, measurement uncertainty analysis, MSA/Gauge R&R, correlation, and qualification.
• Engineer systems for cycle time, throughput, availability, maintainability, robustness, traceability, replication, and capacity.
• Coordinate technical integration and manufacturing transfer with Test Software, Product Design, Systems, Process Engineering, AME, Quality, Operations, and external equipment partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Test, Controls, or a related engineering discipline with at least 7 years of relevant experience and experience consistent with Principal Engineer responsibility, or a Master’s degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Significant experience developing manufacturing test systems, automated test equipment, or electromechanical test stands for production environments.
• Strong experience with fixtures, load systems, sensors, instrumentation, electrical systems, motion control, and data-acquisition architectures.
• Ability to translate product and manufacturing requirements into robust test methods, measurement architectures, and objective acceptance criteria.
• Strong knowledge of calibration, measurement uncertainty, MSA, Gauge R&R, correlation, repeatability, reproducibility, and capability.
• Experience industrializing test systems for serial production, including cycle time, capacity, replication, uptime, maintainability, and support.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across mechanical, electrical, controls, instrumentation, and software interfaces.

Nice to have

• Experience testing motors, geartrains, drivetrains, encoders, brakes, or sensors.
• Familiarity with LabVIEW, National Instruments, PLCs, or automated data acquisition.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a flexible work arrangement.
• Competitive benefits and compensation package.
• Short-term incentive eligibility through the hirify.global Incentive Plan.
• Benefits and resources designed to support employees across career and life stages.

Hiring process

• Apply only through official hirify.global channels and approved hirify.global platforms.
• hirify.global does not request payment or sensitive personal information during early recruitment stages.