Principal Test Automation Engineer (Robotics & Test Systems) - Surgical

Location: Based at the Mervue Campus in Galway, Ireland; flexible work arrangement.

Salary: EUR 81,120.00–121,680.00 per year, plus eligibility for the hirify.global Incentive Plan.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies and medical devices focused on improving surgical care and patient outcomes.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, design, development, integration, commissioning, qualification, troubleshooting, and release of automated test systems for surgical instruments, medical devices, and robotic systems.
• Translate test methods, product requirements, and measurement needs into automated sequences, state machines, equipment interfaces, data-acquisition workflows, and system specifications.
• Integrate motion equipment, robots, sensors, instrumentation, cameras, safety systems, embedded devices, and device interfaces into coordinated platforms.
• Develop reusable software, drivers, data-capture workflows, diagnostics, traceability, reporting, and controlled deployment for test systems.
• Lead root-cause investigations involving equipment controls, communications, timing, sensors, and data pipelines while establishing common architectures, libraries, and standards.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, controls, systems, product, quality, and data engineers; mentor engineers and provide technical guidance without direct people-management responsibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related discipline with 7+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s/advanced degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying automation software for complex test systems, robotics, capital equipment, laboratory automation, or special-purpose machinery.
• Strong programming capability in Python, C/C++, MATLAB, or similar languages, with the ability to select technologies appropriate to system and lifecycle needs.
• Experience architecting modular test frameworks, equipment abstractions, reusable libraries, sequencing engines, hardware-in-the-loop, or system-in-the-loop test solutions.
• Hands-on experience integrating instrumentation, sensors, data-acquisition systems, motion equipment, cameras, embedded devices, and industrial or laboratory communications interfaces.
• Understanding of test sequencing, synchronisation, triggering, sampling, timestamping, signal integrity, calibration, measurement uncertainty, and data traceability.
• Experience with Git, code review, issue tracking, automated testing, continuous integration, controlled software releases, documentation, and modular software design.
• Ability to translate system and test requirements into automation architecture, detailed designs, risk controls, and maintainable released solutions.
• Ability to lead technical decisions, conduct design and code reviews, manage technical risk, solve multidisciplinary test-system problems, communicate effectively, collaborate, influence without direct authority, and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with machine safety, interlocks, fault handling, equipment commissioning, cybersecurity considerations, and preventive-maintenance needs.
• Experience in medical devices, robotics, regulated product development, design verification, or high-reliability test environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement for a role based at the Mervue Campus in Galway.
• Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
• Eligibility for the hirify.global Incentive Plan, a short-term incentive.
• Work within a multidisciplinary healthcare technology organization focused on improving patient care.

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 the early recruitment stages.