Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Overview

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on 1 Jun 2026. At Medtronic, you can begin a life‑long career of exploration and innovation, helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. In this role, you will lead the tooling and fixturing that ensures our cutting‑edge process technologies create quality products for our patients.

• Research, plan, design, verify, validate and develop mechanical and/or electromechanical devices and systems to support new technology and business development.
• Support implantable cardiac and neuromodulation manufacturing value streams at the Tempe Campus.
• Design mechanical, electromechanical, and mechatronic systems, subsystems, and tooling solutions to support complex medical‑device manufacturing operations.
• Perform design implementation, ordering, negotiation, and integration activities for daily‑use tooling.
• Assess component and assembly manufacturability needs, develop solutions, and ensure successful integration into the manufacturing environment by participating in Design for Reliability & Manufacturing (DRM) and Six Sigma processes.
• Collaborate with suppliers and vendors to manage results and outcomes.
• Perform risk/failure‑mode assessment, plan and conduct performance and safety testing, and ensure mitigations are in place for designs.
• Write engineering reports and create analytical presentations to document and communicate results.
• Lead technical teams, provide mentoring, and execute technical plans using Six Sigma methodologies.
• Define QMS approaches for design documentation and evaluate prototype concepts through selection and approval.
• Participate in verification and validation of designs and processes, and provide technical mentoring to less experienced engineers and technicians.

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years, or PhD with no prior experience required.
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8C.F.R. §214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

• GD&T certification, DRM or DFSS Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• Experience in the medical industry or FDA‑regulated industry.

Employees in this role are required to be independently mobile, interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and coworkers. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

Medtronic offers competitive salaries, a flexible benefits package, and various incentive plans. Salary range for U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $106,400–$159,600 (USD), plus short‑term incentive MIP. Benefits include health, dental, vision insurance;
Health Savings Account; tuition assistance; 401(k) with employer match; paid time off; and employee‑stock purchase plan.

Medtronic is an equal‑employment‑opportunity employer that maintains a policy of providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All employees are treated equally regardless of age, color, nationality, disability, gender, or other protected characteristics.