Lead Equipment Design Engineer – Medical Devices

Medtronic; Lafayette (CO); On-site; USD 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic’s Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME) team seeks a Principal Equipment Design Engineer to lead the design and implementation of manufacturing equipment for medical devices. You will develop 3D CAD models in SolidWorks, support qualification, and collaborate across disciplines to ensure performance, safety, and regulatory readiness.

The role emphasizes design reviews, documentation discipline, and cross-functional leadership to drive projects from concept to release while mentoring

Qualifications

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• 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.
• Significant experience in machine design, automation, manufacturing equipment, or capital equipment development.
• Advanced SolidWorks proficiency, including complex assemblies, detailed mechanical drawings, and formal design documentation.
• Strong experience developing accurate, detailed, and controlled engineering documentation in regulated or highly quality-focused environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design and development of custom machines, automation systems, tooling, fixtures, and manufacturing equipment for medical device development and production environments.
• Create and maintain detailed 3D CAD models, assemblies, drawings, and bills of materials in SolidWorks with a high level of accuracy, completeness, and revision discipline.
• Support equipment qualification and validation activities.
• Contribute to user requirements, functional specifications, design specifications, risk assessments, and test plans.
• Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, software, controls, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams to develop integrated systems that meet performance, reliability, safety, and compliance requirements.
• Participate in and lead design reviews with a focus on design robustness, manufacturability, maintainability, risk mitigation, validation support, and readiness for release.
• Support equipment FAT, SAT, commissioning, troubleshooting, and post-installation performance investigations.
• Perform engineering analyses such as tolerance stack-ups, failure analysis, root cause investigations, and design for manufacturability/assembly assessments.
• Manage project scope, schedules, technical deliverables, risks, and stakeholder communication for machine design projects from concept through release.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in design controls, documentation discipline, validation support, and cross-functional execution.

Skills

Machine design

Automation

Capital equipment

Engineering documentation

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Baccalaureate degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

Medtronic’s Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME) team seeks a Principal Equipment Design Engineer to lead the design and implementation of manufacturing equipment for medical devices. You will develop 3D CAD models in SolidWorks, support qualification, and collaborate across disciplines to ensure performance, safety, and regulatory readiness.

The role emphasizes design reviews, documentation discipline, and cross-functional leadership to drive projects from concept to release while mentoring