Shape the next generation of innovative embedded products by taking ownership of hardware development from concept to production. Join a collaborative R&D team where your electronics expertise directly impacts the creation of high-quality, user-focused solutions.
Your role
Define hardware architectures, select components, and design electronic systems for embedded products.
Create schematics and PCB layouts using Altium Designer (preferred) or comparable EDA tools such as OrCAD or PADS/Xpedition.
Drive product development from concept and prototyping through verification, validation, and production transfer.
Develop, test, debug, and optimize hardware for microcontroller-based embedded systems.
Execute and document engineering tests, analyze results, and implement design improvements.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product and system requirements into robust hardware solutions.
Support design verification, risk management activities, and compliance with applicable quality and regulatory standards.
Location
This is a Baar-based hybrid role, with three/several in-office days each week to enable rapid collaboration/with two in-office days a week.
Your profile
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Embedded Systems Engineering, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in electronic hardware development, preferably in embedded systems.
Proven experience designing microcontroller-based systems and embedded hardware architectures.
Hands-on expertise with EDA tools, ideally Altium Designer and the Altium 365 platform.
Strong knowledge of schematic capture, PCB layout, electronic circuit design, and hardware debugging.
Experience using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, and other test and measurement tools.
Fluent in English with strong problem-solving skills, a proactive mindset, and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Why join
At Medela, you will be joining a global community of colleagues, united by the purpose that drives our business: helping people. Medela exists to advance human health and wellbeing through knowledge-based and innovative human milk and medical vacuum solutions.
Our employees are empowered to serve this purpose in a family-owned company that is growing rapidly around the world. We value intensive exchanges, diverse perspectives, and unbureaucratic decisions. You will have the opportunity to develop at an international level, and witness the direct impact your work has on our company’s success.
Through advancing research, observing natural behavior, and listening to our customers, Medela turns science into care while nurturing health for generations. Medela supports millions of moms, babies, patients, and healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries all over the world. As the healthcare choice for more than 6 million hospitals and homes across the globe, Medela provides the leading research-based breast milk feeding products, healthcare solutions for hospitals, and clinical education.
A family-owned company, Medela has 20 subsidiaries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia, three production and warehouse facilities in Switzerland, the U.S and China and a worldwide distribution network in over 70 countries. With more than 1,500 employees, Medela is dedicated to developing breakthrough innovations that build better health outcomes and improve the lives of moms, babies and patients.
Founded in 1961 by Olle Larsson, his son Michael Larsson serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2001. Thomas Golücke is the CEO of the company since 2024.
Medela is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, protected veteran status, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, HIV/AIDS status, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance.
