Principal R&D Engineer

About Your New Employer

• Innovative Environment: Join a company that values unique perspectives and innovative thinking to solve complex problems.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Work on the development of advanced medical devices in the Cardiac Rhythm Management, Coronary, Structural Heart, PVH, and Neuromodulation space.
• Career Growth: Be part of a team that offers a challenging, energizing, and rewarding career with opportunities for professional development.

About Your New Job as a Principal R&D Engineer

• Design and Development: Design, develop, troubleshoot, and provide technical skills during research and product development.
• Physician Interaction: Represent the company while interacting with physicians to distill their needs into product requirements and concepts.
• Technical Innovation: Provide direction in technical innovation across the department and identify and mitigate technological risks throughout the design process.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interface effectively and build relationships with team members, other staff, and key technology and component suppliers, both locally and globally.
• Project Management: Progress projects from concept phase into commercialization phase and play a key role on the product/process/engineering/technical fronts.
• Mentorship: Coach, mentor, and delegate work to less experienced engineers and partake in cross-site Technical Forums.

What Skills You Need

• Educational Background: Degree level 8 in Engineering or related discipline with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or PhD with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Team Player: Dynamic team player that can work effectively and proactively on cross-functional teams.
• Medical Device Experience: Extensive medical device product development experience with a strong proven track record in innovation and technical advisory.
• Technical Passion: Passionate about engineering concepts and principles with a thrill for understanding how and why things work.
• Influence and Initiative: Proven influencer with skills in driving large-scale technical initiatives.
• Engineering Expertise: Extensive knowledge and skills in component and system design, materials (polymers and metals), sterilization of medical devices, test method development, design for six sigma principles, CAD (Solidworks preferred), pre-clinical evaluations, physician interactions, knowledge of anatomical use conditions, system requirements development, design control, and application of ISO standards for medical devices.
• Communication Skills: Strong communication and presentation skills.

What’s on Offer

• Competitive Salary: Attractive compensation package.
• Professional Development: Opportunities for training, development, and career progression.
• Innovative Projects: Work on life-changing medical technology projects that make a real difference in patients' lives.

What’s Next

Apply now by clicking the “Apply Now" button or contact eward@sigmar.ie. If the job isn’t quite right but you are looking for something similar, please get in touch. We also have multiple Temp, FTC, and Contract jobs available.