Senior Mechnical Design Engineer

About the role

The Senior Design Engineer is responsible for providing design engineering technical leadership and support on cross-functional product development teams through all phases of the design cycle, including initial concept design/prototyping, product development, and the design output documentation required to bring surgical devices or related medical products to market. In addition, the Senior Design Engineer may support related bench testing/inspection fixture and production tooling design, development, and documentation activities.

Essential Duties and Position Responsibilities

• Utilize Solidworks CAD design skills to provide mechanical engineering support for the development of medical device components, assemblies, and final packaging
• Create and develop new product and tooling designs in a cross-functional team environment, provide innovative solutions that solve design for manufacture needs while addressing mechanical, material selection and manufacturing process design challenges
• Provide strong technical leadership by applying parametric 3D solid modeling, FEA, tolerance analysis, design of experiments, design layout and prototype construction skills
• Work closely with other engineers, specialists, and production personnel to execute the physical fabrication/troubleshooting of product or tooling design prototype assemblies
• Check completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformance to standards, accuracy of calculations and proper dimensioning and tolerancing
• Support design documentation and prototyping of internal intellectual property submissions

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills

• Required:
• BS engineering degree with 5 years of relevant experience or advanced engineering degree with 2 years of experience required
• Knowledge of general design engineering principles, component manufacturing processes, tooling methodologies, and material properties required
• Experience with relevant parametric CAD modeling software
• Desired:
• Mechanical Engineering degree
• Advanced Solidworks CAD design, drawing, and PDM vault competencies
• Knowledge of disposable or implantable medical device technologies
• Able to work independently and thrive in a team environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills