Mechanical Engineer - Medical Device (Bedford, MA)

Job Title

Mechanical Engineer - Medical Device (Bedford, MA)

Job Description

Mechanical Engineer – Medical Imaging (Bedford, MA)

The Mechanical Engineer drives innovation in medical imaging hardware, initiating novel designs from the ground up and leveraging advanced technologies and creative engineering approaches to address unmet clinical and user needs, working under limited supervision. The role collaborates on project-wide verification reviews, ensuring comprehensive system and sub-system coverage while implementing designs that exceed product specifications, regulatory requirements, and international standards. With a user-centered design mindset, the engineer considers clinical workflows, usability, serviceability, and real-world operating conditions when developing and improving hardware solutions. Through rigorous review of prototypes, specifications, and test equipment, the engineer refines design concepts and champions breakthrough ideas that bring new medical imaging products to market and set new benchmarks for quality, performance, and patient impact.  This is a full-time, primarily on-site role based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Your role:

• Designs and implements hardware solutions that meet or exceed medical imaging product specifications, applicable regulatory requirements (FDA, IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971), and international standards. 

• Creates and evaluates prototypes, specifications, and test equipment/fixtures to prove design concepts, identify performance gaps, and implement improvements to hardware design, verification strategy, and test methods. 

• Collaborate on project-wide verification reviews across system and sub-system levels for medical imaging hardware, identifying gaps, eliminating redundant testing, and improving traceability between requirements and verification evidence. 

• Champions a culture of innovation and experimentation, encouraging exploration of new designs, verification methodologies, test automation, and tools to improve efficiency and coverage. 

• Works collaboratively with engineering, regulatory, quality, clinical, and program management teams to facilitate open dialogue and shared decision-making during the design and development of new medical imaging products. This cross-functional approach ensures verification progress, potential risks, and design choices are transparently communicated and understood throughout the product lifecycle. 

• Analyzes verification data and test results to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for design or process improvement across medical imaging hardware platforms. 

• Contributes to risk management activities for medical imaging hardware by identifying key failure modes and supporting practical design mitigations that enhance patient and product safety. 

You're the right fit if:

• You bring a minimum of 2 years of relevant industry experience as an individual contributor, ideally within medical devices or another highly regulated industry such as aerospace. Familiarity with mechanical safety and regulatory compliance standards (such as ISO 13485 and IEC 60601-1) are a plus. 

• You have strong mechanical engineering skills, including proficiency in 3D modeling and design using SolidWorks, a solid grounding in mechanical engineering theory and analytical problem solving. Bonus: experience with additive manufacturing (3D printing), subtractive manufacturing (CNC machining), rapid prototyping, finite element analysis (FEA), materials selection, and transition-to-manufacturing activities. 

• You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related technical field. 

• You are comfortable working in a regulated environment, collaborating cross-functionally, and supporting designs through development, verification, and manufacturing, with a focus on quality, reliability, and compliance. 

• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position. 

How we work together:

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an onsite role and will be in the office 5 days a week.

About Philips:

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Philips Transparency Details:

The pay range for this position in MA is $82,000 - $131,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.    

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here. 

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information:

• US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

• Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Bedford, MA.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.