Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 5 Aug 2026   Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.  In this critical and exciting role as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the tooling and fixturing that ensures our cutting edge process technologies create quality products for our patients. You will support implantable cardiac and neuromodulation medical device manufacturing value streams at Medtronic's Tempe Campus. You will support multiple organization spanning from early technology development, research and development, equipment and process development, and operations. The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will contribute to the development of new products that meet application, business, and customer requirements. Collaborate with design colleagues to ensure equipment and tooling designs are capable of meeting performance targets. Prepare regulatory submission-ready documentation for the FDA and other regulatory bodies. Support multiple projects within the organization.                     Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Research, plan, design, verify, validate and develop mechanical and/or electromechanical devices and systems to support new technology and business development. This may include instruments, controls, robots, resonance systems, hydraulic systems, or heat transfer systems to support various manufacturing operations. This would be done while working with metals, plastics, and ceramics through various fabrication processes. Recommend various technology options or approaches for systems, processes, facility, or program improvements in terms of safety, performance, efficiency, ergonomics, and/or cost. Perform design, implementation (ordering, payments negotiations, and installations), and integration activities to support daily-use tooling (ex. shipping trays, device handling, and transfer tooling) in 24/7 manufacturing operations. Design mechanical, electromechanical and mechatronic systems, subsystems, and tooling solutions to support complex medical device manufacturing operations. Preferred outcomes will be innovative, lean, and cost effective. Responsibilities will include assessing component and assembly manufacturability needs, developing solutions, and ensuring successful integration into the manufacturing environment by participating in Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (“DRM”) and Six Sigma design processes. Interact with, and direct, suppliers and vendors to manage results and outcomes through this extensible workforce/resource. 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 presentations of analytical and interpretive nature as required to document and communicate results. Institute design changes based on internal and/or external customer feedback. Collaborate on the development of appropriate testing to verify the product meets internal and/or external customer requirements. Prepare documentation in accordance with relevant internal Standard