Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Materials

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 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

Join Medtronic’s New Product Development team as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, where you’ll play a pivotal role in the development and launch of complex surgical devices. You’ll provide technical expertise in materials selection, tool fabrication, and process equipment design to support the manufacturing of metal components and subassemblies. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams—including R&D, Sourcing, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and suppliers—you’ll help drive projects from concept through qualification and launch, optimizing manufacturability, functionality, cost, and quality at every step.

Work environments include standard office settings, clean room manufacturing areas, model shops, and supplier manufacturing facilities. Up to 20% travel may be required.

Responsibilities:

• Lead collaborative Design for Manufacturability (DFM) efforts, analyzing component designs for manufacturability, identifying cost or quality risks, and driving effective resolutions prior to tooling purchase.
• Participate in Capital Authorization Requests (CAR) for component tooling and related test/inspection fixtures, ensuring alignment with product cost targets and capacity needs.
• Provide engineering cost estimates for production components and subassemblies, leveraging expertise in materials and processing costs for project business studies.
• Specify material selections and design features to balance functionality, manufacturability, and cost, based on product design and component interactions.
• Engage in cross-functional meetings (R&D, AME, Sourcing, Quality) to ensure robust component development processes, including design FMEA reviews.
• Support Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) technical meetings, documenting agreements, identifying risks, and driving closure of open action items.
• Contribute to supplier selection, defining tooling and manufacturing process strategies, assessing capabilities, and mitigating risks.
• Partner strategically with suppliers for tooling design, fabrication, and part qualification, ensuring technical rigor and providing project management support.
• Generate electronic purchase requisitions for capital tooling and production process qualification, based on supplier quotations.
• Collaborate with Quality, Sourcing, and R&D to plan, execute, review, and approve PPAP submissions.
• Review and approve supplier tool designs prior to fabrication.
• Execute component engineering deliverables for product transfer from New Product Development to manufacturing plants and enterprise entities.
• Advise management on risks or developments that could impact project timelines or standard costs.

Required Knowledge And Experience:

Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR PhD with 0 years relevant experience.

Preferred Knowledge And Experience:

• Experience with stamping, CNC machining, MIM, powdered metal, casting, and zinc die casting processes.
• Demonstrated knowledge of DFMEA and PFMEA.
• Proficiency in GD&T, DFM, and DFA principles.
• Significant experience with medium to high volume component and subassembly manufacturing best practices.
• Strong background in statistical analysis, including process capability, process control, DOE, and inspection design.
• In-depth understanding of Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for component qualification.
• Exceptional project management and team leadership skills.
• Ability to work effectively across global business units.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced computer skills (Microsoft Office, Project, Minitab).
• 3D modeling/CAD experience (Creo preferred).

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 Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$100,000.00 - $150,000.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.