Job Description Summary

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in driving innovation and delivering high-quality solutions for complex medical technology applications. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll be shaping product architecture, defining system-level requirements, and driving integration and verification activities across the product lifecycle. This position combines technical leadership with hands-on problem-solving, requiring strong collaboration across engineering, quality, regulatory, and marketing functions. Your expertise will help shape products that meet customer needs, regulatory standards, and market expectations.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Why join us?

A career at BD means learning and working alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time.

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.

Become a maker of possible with us!

Our vision for Peripheral Intervention at BD

Our Peripheral Intervention (PI) business unit offers a comprehensive range of medical products, devices and services for the treatment of peripheral arterial and venous disease, cancer detection, and end-stage renal disease and maintenance.

About the role

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in driving innovation and delivering high-quality solutions for complex medical technology applications. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll be shaping product architecture, defining system-level requirements, and driving integration and verification activities across the product lifecycle. This position combines technical leadership with hands-on problem-solving, requiring collaboration across engineering, quality, regulatory, and marketing functions. Your expertise will help shape products that meet customer needs, regulatory standards, and market expectations.

Main responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to system architecture development, requirements generation, test method development, and communication of results through written reports, design reviews, and technical discussions.

• Support verification and validation activities, including protocol development and execution.

• Exercise sound, independent judgment and apply systems thinking, problem-solving, and troubleshooting to generate technical solutions to key problem statements.

• Act as a cross-functional program representative, working closely with senior project management, regulatory, quality, marketing, and product development teams to plan deliverables, drive project direction, and ensure successful project delivery.

• Develop a strong understanding of the target customer and their needs, enabling effective communication of design features and test results to stakeholders including users, customers, regulators, and marketing teams.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior colleagues.

• Contribute and/lead system and sub-system integration efforts, including defect tracking, configuration management, and risk analysis.

• Plan, coordinate, design, and analyze data from technical experiments at all stages of development, including design of experiments for characterization, prototype testing, and qualification.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts to integrate subsystems and verify device designs.

• Support risk management activities such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

• Assist in creating system/sub-system requirements, design specifications, and test methods for new products.

• Interface with internal stakeholders such as service and manufacturing during development and product enhancement stages to ensure manufacturability and serviceability.

• Utilize Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) tools to enhance product design, ensure statistical significance of testing, and drive structured concept selection.

• Develop a strong understanding of the use environment and how it impacts product development.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Biomedical Engineering, or similar discipline.

• 5+ years’ experience in an R&D Engineering role with a strong background in medical/diagnostics device and development.

• Hands-on experience building and testing prototypes, and production-level instruments.

• Experience with interdisciplinary systems, including electromechanical, software, and fluidic systems.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively on complex projects with diverse disciplines.

• Experience with data acquisition, analysis, and statistical approaches, such as DFSS.

• Knowledge of applicable international standards (e.g., IEC 60601, ISO 13485) is preferred.

• Experience interacting with target customers to understand use cases and user needs, driving data-driven decision-making.

Click on apply if this sounds like you!

At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. Remote or field-based positions will have different workplace arrangements which will be indicated in the job posting.

Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally-protected characteristics.

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Primary Work Location

IRL Limerick - Castletroy

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At BD, we are strongly committed to investing in our associates—their well-being and development, and in providing rewards and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture. We demonstrate this commitment by offering a valuable, competitive package of compensation and benefits programs which you can learn more about on our Careers Site under Our Commitment to You.

Salary or hourly rate ranges have been implemented to reward associates fairly and competitively, as well as to support recognition of associates’ progress, ranging from entry level to experts in their field, and talent mobility. There are many factors, such as location, that contribute to the range displayed. 

The salary or hourly rate offered to a successful candidate is determined by their experience, education, and skills, as well as the labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location.

Salary Range Information

€54,800.00 - €93,200.00 EUR Annual