Senior Systems Engineer

Posted:
7/9/2026, 2:05:04 AM

Location(s):
Galway, Connacht, Ireland ⋅ Connacht, Ireland

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Pay:
€65k–€97k/yr

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with a background in medical device design and development to join our Interventional Cardiology Therapies unit. This role focuses on the development of next generation systems for integrated electro-mechanical devices. In this role, you will work with our research and development teams to identify opportunities to improve device design to meet new and expanding customer needs.

If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) are a vital component of the Medtronic portfolio. We are seeking to solve unmet needs in the rapidly growing field of complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), Renal denervation (RDN) and structural heart therapies.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

Responsibilities may include the following:

  • Development and optimisation of user needs, business needs, use cases, requirements, and system architectures.

  • Complete data analysis to optimize and select concepts to ensure the solution fulfils customer needs, performance and functional requirements.

  • Develop and improve bench top test environments to ensure concepts are tested in the right use conditions and to the specified requirements.

  • Complete user evaluations in representative test environments or in formative evaluations to gain insightful feedback on new concepts and designs.

  • Help decision-making within the team to by creating prioritised design goals and system performance attributes

  • Identify and mitigate technical risks, product hazards, and failure modes.

  • Assist in the development of predictive modelling and simulation tools so that they can be used to assess device performance and function.

  • Plan and oversee system and sub-system integrations to evaluate concepts versus new/updated requirements.

  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure design solutions meet the necessary quality, regulator and manufacturing standard

  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure design solutions meet the necessary quality, regulatory and manufacturing standard

Key Skills & Experience

  • Minimum NFQ Level 8 Bachelors’ degree in an Engineering or Science Discipline and 4+ years of relevant experience or an advanced degree and 2+ years of relevant experience.

  • Experience in Systems Engineering as related to stakeholder needs definition, creation of use case workflows, requirements definition and decomposition, functional architecture, system design, and safety risk management.

  • Experience planning and conducting user evaluations of product concepts, integration testing, analysing data, documenting methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to design teams.

  • Ability to quickly understand complex system behaviours, engineering problems, technical and architectural constraints.

  • Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions, ability to make requirements driven trade-offs

  • Ability to quickly reduce concepts into requirements and specifications

  • Excellent verbal and written and communication skills with an aptitude for convincing others, both internally and externally, of the value of their ideas.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Ireland: 64,640.00 EUR - 96,960.00 EUR | 

 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).