11/09/2025
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๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ - "When I moved to Eindhoven from Ireland, I wanted it to be a complete switch up from my life at home. I wanted to experience a new culture and new people. A new work opportunity and to have a completely clean slate.โ - Eimear Campbell, Senior Quality Engineer.
Sometimes a job is more than a job. Sometimes itโs a life-changer.
Eimear Campbell earned her biotechnology degree at Dublin City University, a degree that opened many doors, internships and an early career as a scientist in combination device development. Although biotechnology was interesting and broad in scope, she soon realized it was not the right fit. โIn college the lab work was very monotonous and I am quite clumsy. The two together did not work,โ Eimear says.
Her turning point came when she landed a role as a Device Analyst in Dublin. โWhen I experienced the design operations and administrative side of things, I preferred it a lot more, because every day was completely different. Very fast-paced.โ
And thatโs how she got into medical devicesโฆ and a major conundrum.
Eimear and her boyfriend had been wanting to move to the Netherlands for quite some time and her significant other secured a job here in the semiconductor sector. Then, the Salvia Senior Quality Engineer position opened up and it piqued her curiosity. โOne, it was going to be a new challenge as I did not work in Quality previously. And two, it was truly medical device as opposed to drug-device delivery,โ she says. โI was confident that I was going to grow because I think you can often plateau and get comfortable in something that you know.โ
Still working remotely for her Ireland-based employer, she interviewed with Salvia, and it was clear...Salvia and High Tech Campus Eindhoven fit the bill. โIt's the first interview I've had where you meet your team before you get selected. So, I got a real feel for the people and how motivated they are, and I loved the campus,โ Eimear says.
The clincher was the focus at Salvia: one therapy to treat migraine attacks rather than an extensively diverse portfolio of combination products at her previous employer.
There arenโt a whole lot of Eimears - someone equally curious about science, womenโs health, and nutrition. โNutrition, science and fitness โ those are my passions, and I always knew I wanted to work in something that helped people and bettered people's lives,โ she says. โWhen I fell into medical devices, I was like, โOkay, this is still in the field of helping.โ Itโs fulfilling to know that what you're doing is going to better someone's life.โ
Outside of work, Eimear describes herself as โvery ritual, the same routine every single day. But when it comes to work, thatโs where I like it to be a bit different, because it breaks up the monotony of my routine life.โ
