System Engineer (Medical Devices & Embedded Systems)

About Us

Delcon is an Italian medical solution company with over 40 years of history in blood collection and transfusion medicine. We operate in more than 70 countries and have a subsidiary in the United States. We design and develop our solutions — from whole blood collection mixers to extractors and sealers — and integrate them with our DelcoNet middleware software platform and OpenChair, our AI-powered donor engagement solution.

We are in a significant transformation: from hardware manufacturer to provider of an integrated hardware-software-data ecosystem for blood centers, with a growing vision toward cell and gene therapy (CGT) adjacencies. Our Bergamo team designs award-winning products (Premio Compasso d’Oro) following a design-driven approach and an innovation process co-created with our customers.

The Role

We are looking for a System Engineer to serve as the cross-functional technical reference point for all device related development projects — not a specialist in a single discipline, but someone capable of holding the system-level vision across product, project, and process, coordinating the internal multidisciplinary team, and interfacing with external development partners.

This role is fully accountable for the execution and delivery of hardware projects. It is a technical leadership and coordination role with a strong delivery orientation.

We are looking for a T-shaped — ideally X-shaped — engineer: someone with a solid technical foundation in one or two disciplines, combined with the curiosity, versatility, and ability to move effectively across mechanical, electronics, firmware, embedded software, and business context. In a small team like ours, breadth matters as much as depth.

What You’ll DoProject coordination and system-level vision

You will manage hardware projects end-to-end — from concept through production. You will track interdependencies across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and embedded software, and ensure the overall technical coherence of the product through requirements management (collection, tracking, verification, validation).

You will own milestones and delivery, anticipate risks, and keep projects on track in multi-stakeholder environments.

Internal team coordination

You will coordinate internal resources across disciplines. You know enough about each domain to ask the right questions, make cross-functional technical decisions, evaluate single contributions, and ensure knowledge transfer within the team.

External partner and customer engagement

A significant portion of development — particularly for new products — happens through external design partners. You will manage these relationships, ensuring work is well-scoped, delivered on time, and that know-how flows back into the company. But this goes beyond execution: you will also engage directly with customers to understand their operational and business needs, help surface unmet needs — the real requirements that often go unstated — and translate them into concrete project inputs. This ability to listen, read context, and connect dots between customer reality and technical opportunity is as important to us as technical competence.

Hardware roadmap, product innovation, and fine-tuning

You will work closely with the VP Product on the hardware product roadmap (including extractors, blood mixers, and new products under evaluation). You will understand where we want to go strategically and translate that into architectures, technical specifications, and development plans. You will not simply execute received specs: you will actively contribute to product design and fine-tuning, bringing an innovative perspective on applicable features and technologies, identifying opportunities others might miss, and thinking outside the box. You know how to distinguish what is technically interesting from what genuinely creates value for the customer and the business — and you use that judgment to make better project decisions.

Regulatory context and quality

You are familiar with medical device requirements (medical device class I, IEC, ISO, FDA 510(k) or CE MDR). You know how to navigate certification implications in design choices and collaborate with the quality team throughout development and validation.

What We’re Looking ForTechnical background and versatility

Degree in Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent. At least 5–8 years of experience developing complex hardware products, ideally in medical devices or industrial equipment and connected devices.

You have a solid core specialization, but over time you have broadened your range — you have worked across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and embedded software, and you understand how they talk to each other. You are not the top expert in everything, but you are competent enough across disciplines to lead technical conversations, evaluate proposed solutions, and make informed decisions.

Entrepreneurial mindset and innovation orientation

You are a self-starter : you do not wait to be told what to do — you see problems, analyze them, and propose solutions. You have a natural inclination to think unconventionally: you challenge initial assumptions, propose alternative approaches, and bring new ideas on technologies and features that can differentiate the product. At the same time, you are pragmatic: you understand that innovating in a medical device context means making choices that are sustainable, certifiable, and genuinely useful to the customer.

Business understanding and prioritization

You do not live in a technical bubble. You understand the business context in which your products operate, you can identify where the highest value lies — for the customer and for the company — and you use that awareness to set the right priorities. You know the difference between what is technically elegant and what is actually worth building.

Project ownership and delivery

You have managed hardware projects from A to Z and are comfortable being accountable for outcomes. You can build a plan, manage dependencies, and communicate status clearly up and across the team. You are not intimidated by environments where processes are still being defined — in fact, that energizes you.

Relationship management

You know how to engage with customers and partners not just to manage technical deliverables, but to genuinely understand what they are looking for — even when they cannot yet articulate it clearly. You turn those conversations into project insight. With external development partners, you define clear specifications, evaluate delivered work, and protect the company’s know-how.

Language

Italian native speaker. Fluent English — we work daily with our US team and customers, and all product meetings are conducted in English.

What You’ll Find

A role with real impact on products used every day in hospitals and blood centers around the world and with a strong presence in US, where holds more than 50% of the US market in whole blood collection solutions (devices and platform). A company that invests 15% of revenue in R&D and is in a moment of significant strategic evolution.

Being directly involved in a new device project that will improve the Delcon ecosystem portfolio.

A technical leadership and coordination position with room to grow as the team expands. The opportunity to work closely with the VP Product and the CEO on strategic decisions shaping the future of the product and the Delcon ecosystem.

A small, hands-on environment where good ideas get traction quickly and where you learn a lot because you are involved in everything — not just one piece of the puzzle.

• Location: Milan or Bergamo, Italy, depending on your place of residence. Both offices are available; travel between the two sites will be required as needed, along with occasional international travel (including to the US).