Principal Mixed-Signal Hardware Engineer
Medtronic
Galway, County Galway, Ireland
Full-Time
Competitive
HybridSenior
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
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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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The Principal Electronics Hardware Engineer role carries strong leadership expectations, including influencing platform and design decisions, ensuring electronics solutions meet performance, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle, and mentoring engineers.
Lead the architecture, design, and development of digital and analog electronics for physiologic monitoring devices and subsystems used in product development and research applications compliant with IEC 60601 for safety and essential performance of medical electrical equipment.
Digital and analog electronics development activities for product development and research applications across physiologic monitoring systems and subsystems, such as pulse oximetry, regional oximetry, EEG based devices, and other sensing technologies.
Define hardware technical direction, design standards, and architectural approaches aligned with system requirements and long‑term platform strategies.
Provide hands-on technical leadership for schematic design, component selection, circuit simulation, and tolerance analysis.
Guide PCBA development, including layout collaboration, signal and power integrity, EMC/ESD considerations, and stack-up definition.
Lead electrical bring-up, debugging, characterization, and verification of prototypes and production-representative hardware.
Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, software, algorithm, test, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to ensure cohesive, testable designs.
Support quality and regulatory activities through documentation, risk analysis, and verification evidence for medical device submissions.
Requires a Bachelors degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.
Deep expertise in digital, analog, and mixed‑signal circuit design for complex, high‑reliability electronic systems.
Expertise in low-signal analog circuit development, noise mitigation, and analog/digital signal processing desired.
Proven experience defining hardware architecture and technical direction for complex products or platforms.
Strong hands-on skills in schematic capture, component selection, circuit simulation, and tolerance analysis.
Extensive experience guiding PCBA development, including layout collaboration, stack-up definition, and design for signal integrity, power integrity, and EMC/ESD.
Experience leading hardware bring-up, debugging, characterization, and failure analysis of prototype and production-representative boards.
Strong understanding of electrical verification and validation methods, test equipment, and correlation to system-level requirements.
Experience working in regulated product development environments; familiarity with medical device hardware development and quality systems preferred.
Ability to resolve complex, ambiguous, or cross-disciplinary technical challenges spanning electronics, systems, and manufacturing constraints.
Strong technical review and mentoring skills, including design reviews and technical guidance without direct people management responsibilities.
Effective communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders.
Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package
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Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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