Senior System Engineer

Company Description Animal Health Tech Solutions R&D is the technology division of Animal Health, focused on developing advanced animal health management solutions. The organization brings together around 450 professionals, including scientists, AI specialists, and software, hardware, and mechanical engineers, working closely with veterinarians and animal experts. Its products and platforms analyze trends and predict health outcomes for hundreds of millions of animals each year, from pets to poultry, farm animals, and fish, across 150 markets. By delivering actionable insights to veterinarians, farmers, and producers, Animal Health Tech Solutions R&D helps transform how animals are cared for worldwide. Applicants can learn more about the company and its mission by visiting https://www.msd-animal-health.com/.

Our Technology Solutions division is evolving. We are moving to a Product Operating Model – a new way of working that empowers product teams to take full ownership and accountability for delivering customer and business value in ways our customers love and that work for the business.

Our product and platform teams are cross-functional and durable, bringing together all the skills required to deliver impactful outcomes. Each team includes a Product Manager, Technology Lead, Product Designer, Delivery Lead, engineers, and developers.

We believe in customer centricity, ownership, and accountability. Solutions must be:

· Valuable – customers choose to buy or use them

· Viable – aligned with business constraints and goals

· Usable – intuitive and user-friendly

· Feasible – achievable with our technical capabilities

Leadership of the Product team is shared between the Product Manager and the Technology Lead, ensuring balanced guidance that bridges product vision and technical execution.

Role summary:

As Senior System Engineer you will have significant impact on our multi-disciplinary R&D projects, grow with us as we venture into new technologies and will lead work groups in our projects as part of the connected devices line of products during the product lifecycle of both discovery and delivery.

The responsibilities will include defining System, HW, Embedded, ATE, SW & Integration requirements as well as contributing to the design stage of each discipline, defining the protocol, technical problem solving, proof of concept and field testing and assisting in tests design and investigations.

The position requires multidisciplinary understanding, ability to quickly grasp new technological aspects as well as constraints , the capability to work in a multi-site matrix organization and working closely in a Product and Platform team with other system engineers, embedded software developers, HW engineers, Integration Engineers as well as backend and front-end teams. 

Requirements:

· BSC/MSc in Electrical engineering

· Minimum of 5 years of experience in system design of multidisciplinary systems

· Experience in working with communication products, Embedded, HW, RF systems

· Problem solver with good personal and teamwork skills.

· Ability to understand complex IoT systems and quickly grasp new technical concepts with focus on challenges ahead and alternative comparison

· Experience of working in complex multidisciplinary projects that requires a high level of technical know-how

Advantage:

· Experience with Linux environment

· Experience in working with Atlassian and Azure DevOps

· Experience in working with Agentic AI for discovery and innovation

· Coding capabilities (C/C#/Java/Python)

· Experience with RF communication technologies (BLE, WiFi, LTE-M, LoRa, etc)

· Knowledge in backend systems and serverless solutions

· Working with Cloud based infrastructure for IoT devices

Characteristics:

· Ability to focus on what's important.

· Organized and able to work well in a structured process environment

· Strong desire for learning and innovation.

· “hands-on” approach.

· Excellent team player.

· Good verbal & written communication Skills.