We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 24 Sep 2025

 

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

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We’re purposeful. We’re committed. And we’re driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide. 

Engineers are indispensable to achieving our Mission. That’s why we empower you to bring the best of your experience to bear on our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Apply your existing skills and develop new ones, with the training, mentorship, and the guidance you need to continue to develop your expertise. Today, we’re partnering across the industry to confront systemic healthcare challenges – this requires bold leadership. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.  

Onsite

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 5 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 exciting role as a Principal Process Engineer, you will lead the innovation, development and/or optimization of new manufacturing concepts, processes, and procedures for transfer to manufacturing operations.

This position will work onsite at our manufacturing site in Tempe, Arizona.

A Day in the Life:

The Principal Process Engineer is responsible for developing and transferring highly stable, cost-effective, and scalable microelectronic packaging and PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) processes into manufacturing. You will develop and support equipment and processes such as underfill dispense, pick and place, solder paste dispense, reflow, epoxy cure, clean, laser, etc. This entails output monitoring, performing necessary experiments to establish robust processes and gaining a thorough understanding of capabilities and interactions with upstream and downstream processes including metrology needs. You will provide inputs to design teams and advance the state of the art in microelectronic assembly.

Responsibilities include:

• Scouting and feasibility work, material selection, process and equipment selection, tooling / fixture and equipment installation and assessment of inputs, outputs, and alignment to requirements.

• Develop manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control and may develop those techniques including the measurement systems.

• Perform equipment qualifications (IQ), process validations (Process characterization, OQ and PQ), and gage R&R studies (TMV)

• Apply statistical methods and science-based decisions to design experiments and implement improvements.

• Perform necessary experiments to establish robust processes.

• Troubleshoot and resolve equipment/process production and yield issues.

• Review product development requirements for compatibility with processing methods to determine costs and schedules.

• Interact with product design and development personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.

• Generate and maintain documentation per quality system regulations.

• Ensure processes and procedures follow regulations.

Must have:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience.

Nice to have:

• Advance degree in Mechanical engineering or Materials Science

• Experience in developing a process from concept to transfer in manufacturing

• Experience working in a high-volume facility

• Experience with DRM / DFSS, Lean Sigma, or Green/Black Belt Lean Sigma certification

• Knowledge of DOE, statistical analysis methods and data analysis tools (Minitab, JMP, etc.)

• Experience and understanding of SPC principles including process capability analysis and c