R&D Engineer
About Your New Employer
Our client is an innovative medical device company developing next-generation catheter-based technologies to support the treatment of serious conditions.
You will join a multidisciplinary product development team based in Galway.
About Your New Job
Reporting to the Principal R&D Engineer, you will play a key role in the development of catheter-based medical devices, with an initial focus on catheter components, manufacturing processes, and supplier capabilities.
As an R&D Engineer, you will:
- Lead the development of catheter components, manufacturing processes, and supplier capabilities.
- Design, build, and evaluate prototypes to support product development activities.
- Develop test methods, test platforms, and bench models for device development, verification, and validation.
- Design and execute experiments, analyse technical data, and use results to guide product design decisions.
- Apply principles of mechanics, fluid dynamics, materials science, and statistics to solve technical challenges.
- Develop assembly processes and manufacturing methods for catheter-based medical devices.
- Apply Design for Manufacture and Design for Assembly principles throughout product development.
- Support validation activities for components, processes, and test methods.
- Participate in design and process risk management activities, including DFMEA and PFMEA.
- Work with suppliers and external partners to support component development and manufacturing scale-up.
- Prepare technical reports, specifications, protocols, and development documentation.
- Maintain laboratory equipment and facilities in a safe and compliant manner.
- Keep informed of relevant technologies, standards, and test methodologies.
- Contribute to invention generation and intellectual property development.
- Support demonstrations of company technology for clinical collaborators, investors, and other stakeholders.
This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who takes a first-principles approach to problem solving. You will be expected to break down complex problems, design experiments to test assumptions, and use data to drive engineering decisions.
What Skills You Need
- A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, Materials, Polymer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum three years of product development experience within the medical device industry.
- Practical experience in medical device design, prototype development, and laboratory testing.
- Experience developing and executing experimental test programmes.
- The ability to analyse technical data and use evidence to inform design decisions.
- Experience working within a regulated product development environment.
- Knowledge of medical device design controls and risk management processes.
- Experience using SolidWorks and Microsoft Office.
- A hands-on and methodical approach to technical problem solving.
- The ability to work collaboratively with R&D, Preclinical, Operations, suppliers, and external partners.
What's on Offer
- The opportunity to work on innovative medical device technology with the potential to improve patient outcomes.
- A varied, hands-on engineering role covering product design, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, and supplier development.
- The opportunity to work in a collaborative and fast-paced product development environment.
- The chance to contribute to invention generation, intellectual property development, and the advancement of next-generation medical technologies.
What's Next
Apply now to be considered for this R&D Engineer opportunity in Galway. If you have medical device product development experience and are passionate about developing innovative, patient-focused technologies, we would be delighted to hear from you.
