Principal Systems Engineer (Robotics)

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

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

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies and medical devices focused on improving patient outcomes across more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Lead systems engineering for robotic surgical instruments and capital equipment from stakeholder needs and product requirements through architecture, integration, and verification.
• Translate procedural and instrument needs into measurable system, subsystem, and interface requirements with clear acceptance criteria.
• Develop performance budgets covering accuracy, force, torque, motion, latency, and reliability across instruments, capital platforms, and controls.
• Own bidirectional traceability between requirements, risk controls, test methods, and verification evidence.
• Lead system integration, characterisation, verification, architecture trade-offs, and complex root-cause investigations.
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, software, controls, test, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing teams; mentor engineers and influence technical decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering or a related engineering discipline with 7+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s/advanced degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience applying systems-engineering methods to complex electromechanical, robotic, medical-device, or similarly integrated products.
• Strong capability in requirements development, decomposition, allocation, interface definition, and bidirectional traceability.
• Experience managing performance budgets and converting product needs into measurable targets and testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience planning system integration, characterisation, and verification, including test strategy and objective-evidence assessment.
• Ability to lead root-cause investigations across mechanical systems, electronics, sensing, software, and controls.
• Experience managing interfaces and system boundaries between instruments, capital equipment, and controls.
• Knowledge of risk management, design controls, and configuration management in a regulated or safety-critical environment.
• Strong communication, technical leadership, and decision-making skills within multidisciplinary teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with requirements tools, systems modelling, MBSE, data analysis, or test automation.
• Medical-device, surgical-robotics, precision-instrumentation, motion-control, or reliability experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement for a role based at the Mervue Campus in Galway.
• Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
• Eligibility for the short-term hirify.global Incentive Plan.
• Employee resources and benefits designed to support different career and life stages.

Hiring process

• Apply only through official hirify.global channels and approved recruiting platforms.
• Legitimate recruiting communications come from official hirify.global email addresses; no payment or sensitive personal information is requested during early hiring stages.