Job Description
Senior Systems Engineer | Medical Devices | Melbourne (In office)
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Here's a question worth sitting with: when was the last time you got to build a medical device from a genuinely blank page?
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That's the brief on offer a successful a Melbourne medtech business bringing its next-generation device to life from the ground up. This is a rare one: a fully funded, board-approved, multi-year R&D; program, and a Senior Systems Engineer role built to lead the systems architecture for it from day one through to commercialisation.
n You'll also help steer the final stretch of the R&D; project alongside the team, before shifting your full focus to the new platform.
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What you'll be doing
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Owning systems architecture for a next-generation medical device, from concept through to production handover.
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Mentoring and guiding a junior systems engineer.
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Working closely with a small, close-knit R&D; team, mechanical, electrical and production,



to keep everyone building toward the same architecture.
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Partnering directly with the Head of R&D; as a trusted technical sounding board.
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Helping raise the bar on documentation and engineering rigour as the team scales.
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What you'll bring
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Class 3 medical device experience, essential.
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Hands‐on FDA submission experience, essential.
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A background in medical devices, essential.
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C++ experience, desirable.
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Embedded software exposure, highly regarded but not essential.
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The confidence to influence engineers you don't manage, and the patience to bring people with you.
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You're based in Melbourne now, and genuinely want to be here on‐site with the team.
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Why this one's worth a conversation
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Ground‐up ownership: this is a true zero‐to‐one systems engineering brief, not maintenance on someone else's design. Only Permanent Residents or Australian Citizens are eligible to apply.
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📌 Senior Systems Engineer (Victoria)
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📍 Victoria