Senior Systems Engineer - ACM

Galway, County Galway, Ireland
Full-time
Posted Nov 9, 2026

Skills

Systems Engineering

Job description

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

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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

The Physiological Sensing R&D team is dedicated to the end-to-end development, continuous advancement, and clinical validation of innovative monitoring technologies that measure, interpret, and leverage physiological signals to improve patient outcomes. Their expertise spans anesthesia and depth of sedation monitoring, respiratory monitoring, pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, and the integration of predictive algorithms and clinical decision support solutions. By focusing on non-invasive, real-time technologies, they empower clinicians with actionable insights in surgery, critical care, and other high-risk settings.

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A Day in The Life Of:

The Senior Systems Engineer defines, integrates, and validates complex physiologic monitoring systems within the Medtronic ACM organization. This role is responsible for developing and managing system and subsystem requirements, supporting risk management, defining system‑level tests to characterize and verify performance, and maintaining end‑to‑end traceability across the product lifecycle.

•Develop, decompose, and maintain clear, testable system and subsystem requirements for physiologic monitoring technologies.

•Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to translate user and clinical needs into system architectures and requirements.

•Establish and maintain requirements traceability from user needs through design, implementation, verification, and risk controls.

•Lead and contribute to risk management activities, including hazard analysis, FMEA/FMECA, and ensuring linkage between risks, mitigations, and verification evidence.

•Define and develop system‑level test strategies and test cases to characterize system functionality, performance, and interoperability.

•Analyze test data, investigate issues, and drive resolution of system‑level defects and integration problems.

•Support design reviews, technical documentation, and design control deliverables in accordance with Medtronic quality and regulatory requirements.

•Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across disciplines to ensure cohesive system integration and robust design decisions.

Key Skills & Experience

•Strong background in systems engineering for complex electro‑mechanical, software‑enabled, or medical device systems.

•Demonstrated experience developing structured requirements (e.g., using Polarion, Jama, or similar tools) and managing requirements baselines and changes.

•Proven ability to maintain traceability between requirements, design elements, test cases, and risk controls.

•Hands‑on experience with risk management for regulated products (e.g., ISO 14971 or equivalent practices), including hazard analysis and failure mode analysis.

•Expertise in system‑level verification and validation, including test plan development, test execution oversight, and results analysis.

•Familiarity with quality systems and design control for medical devices or similarly regulated industries.

•Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across multiple engineering disciplines.

•Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field; advanced degree and prior experience in physiologic or patient monitoring systems strongly preferred.

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 |

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework. ‌

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