Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (m/f/d)

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you will play a key role designing and developing state-of-the-art robotic systems that will have a global reach. Work alongside a team of world-class engineers and researchers who are at the forefront of medical technology innovation. Enjoy a flexible work environment that supports a healthy work-life balance, ensuring you can excel both professionally and personally. Be part of a collaborative and inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and encourages creative problem-solving.
This position is based out of the Laim district in Munich, Germany office, and offers the option to work 2 days per week from home office. Some domestic and international travel may be required as necessary although this would be less than 10% of the time.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Design and develop mechanical components and assemblies for robotic-assist surgical-platforms
• Collaborate with a multinational, multidisciplinary team of electrical, software, and clinical engineers from the conceptual design phase through implementation, to design products, root cause issues, and implement design changes
• Design, procure, assemble, and evaluate prototypes
• Perform kinematic, structural, and empirical analyses to evaluate product performance and safety
• Compose engineering reports and presentations to document and communicate design deliverables and analyses
• Interact and negotiate with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and external partners

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor\’s Degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent; Master\’s Degree preferred. Minimum of 4 years relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
• Solid knowledge and experience creating components and assemblies with 3D CAD software (CREO preferred)
• Experience designing (electro-)mechanical components, mechanisms, and assemblies for production
• Expertise designing for manufacturability & assembly (DFM/DFA), creating engineering drawings for production, applying geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), performing tolerance stack analyses, and using analytical software such as Ansys, Minitab, MathCad, MATLAB, Simulink
• Experience designing parts for various production methods (gravity die casting, metal & plastic injection molding, 3D printing, milling, turning, sheet metal punching & bending, thermoforming)
• Experience with all phases of the product development lifecycle including input creation, design, prototyping, verification, and transfer to production
• Professional written and spoken working proficiency with English is required; good German language skills are beneficial. Strong communication skills to effectively work with a variety of stakeholders is essential

Experience in designing electronics packaging/enclosures and cabling is an advantage. Prior experience in the medical device or robotics industry is a further definite asset.

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here

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