Sr. Systems Engineer (Medical Devices)

Location: San Diego, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global develops medical technologies designed to improve surgical techniques and outcomes for patients with musculoskeletal disorders.

What you will do

• Translate business and clinical needs into system and subsystem requirements while maintaining requirements traceability.
• Define system architecture, interfaces, data flows, and interactions across software, hardware, robotics, imaging, user interfaces, and disposables.
• Support the development and validation of intraoperative neuromonitoring systems and coordinate interoperability with Excelsius Navigation and robotic systems.
• Develop system-level accuracy metrics, characterize performance, and conduct statistical analysis and Design of Experiments.
• Analyze latency, synchronization, real-time behavior, distributed components, failure modes, and system-level risks.
• Coordinate technical work across software, hardware, clinical, regulatory, and manufacturing teams, including field issue triage and root cause analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, including mechanical, electrical, biomedical, software, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience developing complex systems, such as medical devices, intraoperative neuromonitoring systems, robotics, or similar products.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and the product development lifecycle.
• Experience working across software and hardware domains and decomposing complex systems into interacting subsystems.
• Ability to communicate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Onsite work in San Diego, California, United States is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with medical devices and FDA-regulated development processes.
• Familiarity with intraoperative neuromonitoring, surgical navigation, robotics, or image-guided systems.
• Exposure to real-time systems, distributed architectures, or hardware communication protocols.
• Experience with system-level validation, statistical analysis, performance characterization, risk analysis, or FMEAs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is guided by innovation, customer focus, teamwork, and a results-oriented approach.
• Collaboration spans engineering, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, researchers, educators, customers, and healthcare providers.
• Commitment to ethical business practices, regulatory compliance, inclusion, and a respectful work environment.