Senior Systems Engineer

About Us

Machnet Medical Robotics (MMR), founded in 2020, is on a mission to revolutionise medical robotics. Our guiding principle is simple: innovation must improve patient outcomes, support clinicians without disrupting workflows, and empower healthcare staff rather than adding burden.

MMR is a well-funded company with long-term investors and a strong financial foundation. Our talented hardware and software team has successfully developed a fully functional prototype of our medical robotic platform, which has already undergone successful animal trials. With the prototype validated, we are now entering the next phase: maturing the architecture for production and scaling, ensuring safety, reliability, manufacturability, and regulatory readiness as we prepare to bring our technology to hospitals worldwide.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to help scale our platform from prototype into a safe, robust, and regulated medical product. This role is central to building system discipline across architecture, requirements, risk management, and verification. You will act as a bridge between engineering teams, ensuring that complex technical decisions remain coherent at the system level, while keeping clinical safety, usability, and compliance at the core.

You will work closely with electrical, mechanical, software, and controls engineers to define and govern system requirements, interfaces, and verification strategies. You will also play a key role in strengthening our product development processes as we move toward formal regulatory milestones and real-world hospital deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the system engineering approach for MMR’s robotic platform, ensuring design decisions support safety, scalability, and clinical usability.
• Define system-level architecture across hardware, software, sensing, actuation, and clinical workflows, with clear interface control between subsystems.
• Translate clinical and regulatory expectations into clear, testable system requirements, working closely with engineering and V&V.
• Build and maintain end-to-end traceability from user needs → system requirements → design outputs → verification evidence.
• Partner with V&V to ensure requirements are verifiable, test methods are efficient and risk-informed, and evidence is audit-ready.
• Support systems integration activities, helping teams resolve issues across software, electrical, controls, and mechanical boundaries.
• Participate in and help drive risk management activities (ISO 14971), including hazard identification, risk controls, and verification of mitigations.
• Help define and improve systems engineering processes appropriate for a fast-moving startup scaling toward regulated production.
• Contribute to design reviews with strong engineering judgement—flagging weak assumptions, interface risks, and verification gaps early.
• Mentor and support engineers across disciplines, bringing clarity, patience, and high technical standards to team decision-making.

Who We Are Looking For

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in complex electromechanical systems (medical devices strongly preferred; robotics, aerospace, automotive, or industrial systems also valuable).
• Proven ability to define system architectures and manage interfaces in multidisciplinary products with hardware + software + controls interaction.
• Strong experience writing clear, unambiguous, testable requirements and building traceability across development and verification.
• Demonstrated experience supporting verification planning, execution, and evidence generation in regulated or high-safety environments.
• Comfortable working across teams to solve integration issues, drive alignment, and maintain system-level coherence under evolving constraints.
• Strong communication skills: able to translate between clinical needs, engineering realities, and regulatory expectations.

Experiences We Value

• Familiarity with ISO 14971 risk management and how risk controls map to requirements and verification.
• Experience with regulated product development (CE/UKCA/FDA environments).
• Knowledge of IEC 60601 expectations and how they influence architecture, testing, and design constraints.
• Experience working with usability engineering (IEC 62366) and maintaining a user-centred systems approach.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities evolve and ownership is broad.
• Experience bridging electrical, software, and controls teams during system integration and design maturity.

Why Join Us?

At MMR, you’ll work at the intersection of robotics, AI, and healthcare. You’ll help shape the architecture, processes, and verification foundation of a medical robotic platform moving from prototype to product. You’ll be part of a collaborative, impact-driven team where your work directly influences patient outcomes and clinical adoption.

We believe technology must serve people responsibly. At MMR, we value human-centred innovation, moral integrity, and long-term responsibility, both in how we design our products and how we treat our employees.

What We Offer

• Join an international and interdisciplinary team based in the Netherlands (Zwolle) and Central London.
• Contribute to a rapidly growing medical device startup with ambitious global impact goals.
• A central London office with a hands-on engineering culture and access to prototyping.
• Continuous learning and professional development through training, workshops, and conferences.
• An inclusive and diverse workplace that values every team member.
• A competitive salary package aligned with senior-level responsibility.