Hardware Verification Lead - Medical Devices

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.

We are looking for a Hardware Verification Lead to build and lead the verification function for MMR’s medical robotic platform as we transition from prototype to regulated product. This role is central to ensuring that system and subsystem requirements are rigorously verified through structured planning, disciplined execution, and clear traceability to objective evidence.

You will define the verification strategy, develop the test architecture and infrastructure, and lead cross-functional verification activities across hardware, software, controls, and integrated system performance. You will establish verification as a scalable and efficient capability within the organisation, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and product development milestones.

Working closely with Systems Engineering, Quality, and development teams, you will ensure verification activities are risk-informed, efficient, and audit-ready, while supporting broader validation and regulatory efforts.

• Own and drive the end-to-end verification strategy for MMR’s robotic platform, from prototype maturity through product release.
• Build and lead the verification team, including hiring, mentoring, and setting execution standards.
• Create and maintain the Verification Master Plan (VMP), aligning verification activities with development phases, risk, and regulatory expectations.
• Establish the verification operating model, including processes, documentation standards, review gates, and reporting cadence.
• Translate system and subsystem requirements into verification plans, protocols, and acceptance criteria with clear traceability.
• Build and govern requirements-to-test traceability, ensuring completeness and audit readiness.
• Lead integrated system verification across electrical, mechanical, software, controls, sensing, and workflow behaviours.
• Partner with Systems Engineering to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and verification-ready.
• Define and implement verification infrastructure, including test rigs, data acquisition, automation, and simulation/HIL where appropriate.
• Own verification reporting and evidence generation, ensuring results are clear, defensible, and regulator-ready.
• Support failure investigation and root cause analysis, ensuring issues are tracked, resolved, and re-verified.
• Coordinate external verification and compliance testing (e.g., safety, EMC, environmental), including readiness and review of results.
• Contribute to risk management activities (ISO 14971) by ensuring risk controls are verified with objective evidence.
• Foster a verification culture that balances rigor, efficiency, and collaboration.

• Degree in Engineering (Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Robotics, Biomedical, Software) or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in verification, systems test, or product verification of complex electromechanical systems (medical devices preferred).
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing verification strategies across multidisciplinary systems.
• Proven ability to build and lead teams, including hiring and mentoring.
• Strong experience with verification documentation: verification plans, protocols, reports, and traceability matrices.
• Strong engineering judgement with a practical mindset for designing efficient, high-value tests.
• Comfortable driving alignment across hardware and software teams while maintaining verification rigor.
• Excellent communication skills, able to bridge engineering, regulatory, and business perspectives.

• Familiarity with ISO 14971 and verification of risk control measures.
• Experience in regulated environments (CE, UKCA, FDA).
• Knowledge of standards such as IEC 60601, IEC 62304, IEC 62366, and their impact on verification.
• Experience with test automation and tooling (e.g., Python-based test frameworks, CI pipelines, data systems).
• Experience in robotics system verification, including actuation, sensing, control systems, and fault handling.
• Experience coordinating external test houses and compliance activities.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced startup environment.

At MMR, you’ll work at the intersection of robotics, AI, and…