Senior Controls Software Engineer (Robotics & Test Systems) - Surgical

Location: Galway, County Galway, Ireland; based at the Mervue Campus with a flexible work arrangement.

Salary: EUR 65,600.00–98,400.00 per year, plus eligibility for the hirify.global Incentive Plan.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies designed to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life, serving patients across more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and maintain low-level controls software for robotic mechanisms, test rigs, and surgical instrument platforms.
• Develop motor-control functions, state machines, calibration and homing sequences, motion trajectories, and coordinated operating modes.
• Implement closed-loop force, torque, position, and velocity control, including limits, interlocks, watchdogs, fault handling, and recovery.
• Integrate controls software with servo drives, embedded and real-time systems, sensors, encoders, load cells, data-acquisition hardware, and mechanical assemblies.
• Support prototyping, rig bring-up, commissioning, tuning, verification, troubleshooting, and engineering release.
• Collaborate across software, systems, test, mechanical, electrical, and mechatronics engineering while maintaining technical documentation and traceability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in software, electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s/advanced degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing controls software for robotics, automation equipment, test systems, electromechanical products, or special-purpose machinery.
• Strong programming skills in C, C++, Python, or comparable languages used for embedded, real-time, or test-system controls.
• Practical experience with state machines, motion sequences, motor control, trajectory generation, and closed-loop force, position, or velocity control.
• Understanding of feedback devices, sampling, filtering, stability, tuning, system dynamics, and actuator or transmission behaviour.
• Experience integrating software with motors, servo drives, encoders, sensors, data-acquisition hardware, industrial or real-time communications, and mechanical systems.
• Experience with debugging, hardware-in-the-loop or system-level testing, data analysis, and structured troubleshooting of electromechanical systems.
• Working knowledge of software lifecycle practices, version control, code review, testing, requirements traceability, and technical documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills across software, electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, systems, and test disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience with real-time operating systems, embedded controllers, MATLAB/Simulink, or model-based development.
• Experience in medical devices, surgical robotics, regulated product development, or high-reliability test environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within a multidisciplinary advanced development team.
• Flexible work arrangement.
• Competitive benefits package and compensation framework.
• Eligibility for the short-term hirify.global Incentive Plan.

Hiring process

• Apply only through official hirify.global channels and approved hirify.global platforms.
• Legitimate recruiting communications use official @hirify.global.com email addresses; hirify.global does not request payment or sensitive personal information during early hiring stages.