Research & Development Engineer I (Medical Devices)

Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States; onsite work at least four days per week. Domestic travel is less than 10%, typically 1–2 days per month. Candidates below Principal level must have unrestricted U.S. work authorization at hire and throughout employment; U.S. sponsorship is not available.

Salary: USD 74,400–111,600 per year, plus eligibility for the hirify.global Incentive Plan.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies, including spinal implants, instruments, and systems used to treat degenerative, deformity, and tumor/trauma conditions.

What you will do

• Develop mechanical concepts and designs for spinal implants, instruments, and systems from initial design through market release.
• Translate customer and clinical needs into stakeholder requirements, system requirements, design specifications, and product concepts.
• Evaluate interfaces, use cases, and design risks; investigate issues and implement design improvements.
• Design and conduct tests, experiments, numerical analyses, and evaluations to optimize product performance.
• Support verification and validation activities and incorporate feedback from customers, clinical users, suppliers, consultants, and cross-functional partners.
• Create engineering reports, presentations, drawings, and design documentation; build clinical-use knowledge through customer visits, pre-clinical in vivo labs, literature reviews, and training.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a technical discipline.
• Experience with mechanical design principles.
• Experience with engineering drawing standards, including Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and tolerance stack analysis.
• For a bachelor’s degree earned outside the United States, the degree must satisfy 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A).

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or biomedical engineering with a mechanical design focus or experience.
• Experience with Creo, SolidWorks, or similar three-dimensional CAD software.
• Experience with systems engineering methodologies, including requirements development, analysis, allocation, traceability, verification, and validation.
• Knowledge of surgical instrumentation, spinal anatomy, clinical procedures, machining, or additive manufacturing/3D printing.
• Experience in an FDA-regulated medical device environment, including applicable ISO requirements, Quality System Regulations, and product lifecycle management systems such as Agile or Windchill.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employment with health, dental, vision, life, disability, retirement, paid time off, paid holidays, and employee assistance benefits.
• Additional benefits for regular employees working 20 or more hours per week include health savings and flexible spending accounts, dependent daycare spending, tuition assistance, and a global well-being program.
• Regular employees are eligible for incentive plans, a 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match, and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Applications should be submitted only through official hirify.global channels.
• hirify.global does not request payment or sensitive personal information during early recruitment stages.