Principal R&D Engineer (Technical Lead) - Surgical

Location: Galway, County Galway, Ireland; based at the Mervue Campus. Workplace type: Flexible Work Arrangement.

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

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies and medical devices designed to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

What you will do

• Own the integrated technical solution for a strategic industrialization program involving complex precision electromechanical systems.
• Integrate product design, systems, manufacturing engineering, test engineering, quality, operations, suppliers, and other technical workstreams.
• Track technical scope, requirements, interfaces, dependencies, risks, decisions, evidence, maturity, and readiness.
• Lead multidisciplinary reviews covering performance, manufacturability, testability, reliability, interfaces, and system-level impacts.
• Drive technical risks and issues to closure through analysis, engineering builds, testing, risk assessment, and subject-matter expertise.
• Coordinate technical priorities, transfer criteria, deliverables, dependencies, and execution with the R&D Engineering Program Manager through design transfer and production ramp-up.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical, Systems, or a related engineering discipline with at least 7 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s/advanced degree in one of these disciplines with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Significant experience leading multidisciplinary engineering work across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and test domains.
• Accountability for an integrated technical solution, major subsystem, or complex cross-functional engineering workstream.
• Strong systems thinking across requirements, architecture, interfaces, dependencies, risks, technical evidence, trade-offs, and maturity.
• Ability to structure ambiguous technical challenges, engage subject-matter experts, facilitate decisions, and drive complex issues to closure.
• Strong understanding of product development, engineering changes, verification, Design Transfer, industrialization, and manufacturing readiness.
• Excellent engineering judgment, communication, and facilitation skills, including the ability to influence and provide technical direction in a matrix organization.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex mechatronic products, precision mechanisms, motion control, or regulated medical-device development.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment based at the Mervue Campus in Galway with a flexible work arrangement.
• Competitive benefits and compensation package supporting employees across career and life stages.
• Eligibility for the hirify.global Incentive Plan short-term incentive.
• Work within a global healthcare technology organization focused on patient outcomes and innovative medical technologies.

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 hiring stages.