We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 11 Oct 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

As a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer, you will be a technical leader within our R&D organization, driving the design, development, and commercialization of advanced mechanical and electromechanical systems for diabetes management. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, lead complex projects from concept to production, and mentor junior engineers to ensure technical excellence and continuous innovation.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead the design, development, and validation of mechanical and electromechanical components, subsystems, and systems for diabetes management devices.
• Innovation & Optimization: Apply advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis (FEA, tolerance analysis, DFM/DFA) to create robust, high-performance, and manufacturable designs.
• Customer Focus: Translate product requirements and user feedback into innovative design concepts and detailed engineering specifications.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with electrical, software, manufacturing, and quality teams to deliver integrated, high-quality solutions.
• Mentorship: Serve as a technical mentor, guiding and developing junior engineers and project teams.
• Manufacturing Partnership: Support design transfer to high-volume manufacturing, engaging with vendors and leading process validation.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Represent Medtronic as a technical expert with internal and external partners, including customers and suppliers.
• Continuous Improvement: Champion best practices in mechanical design, risk management, regulatory compliance, and design for manufacturability.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer experience within the medical device industry
• Mastery of 3D CAD (SolidWorks, Creo) and engineering analysis tools (FEA, tolerance analysis).
• Deep knowledge of regulatory standards (FDA, ISO 13485) and risk management (FMEA, hazard analysis).
• Proven track record leading complex design projects and mentoring engineers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience designing components for diabetes devices (insulin pumps, CGMs, infusion sets) or similar wearable/implantable medical devices.
• Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes (injection molding, machining, 3D printing, automated assembly).
• Advanced skills in tolerance analysis, predictive modeling, and GD&T.
• Demonstrated success in launching products into high-volume manufacturing.
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Passion for Medtronic’s mission and commitment to improving patient lives.

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physi