Medical Equipment Mechanical Design Engineer

This role develops mechanical hardware for medical equipment. Responsibilities include mechanical design of medical equipment bodies, beds, housings and drive mechanisms, together with strength, vibration and heat-dissipation analysis. The work also covers drive design and fluid-control mechanisms for in-vitro diagnostic equipment, including mechatronics control, product design, analysis, prototyping, evaluation, simulation, and examination of manufacturing and inspection processes.

Additional responsibilities include sensor technology development for ultrasound diagnostic equipment. One area focuses on manufacturing technology and process development for probes, including dicing, grinding, polishing, bite processing, surface treatment, cleaning, surface roughness and tension-related processes. Another focuses on mechanical, physical, acoustic and signal-related element technologies, technology integration and project promotion. The role may also involve analysis and simulation of medical equipment bodies and beds, environmental design, and virtual model construction.

The position includes mechanical design for medical components and peripheral equipment. Work may cover portable flat-panel detector housings and internal structures designed for load-bearing and impact resistance, impact simulation, thermal design, power and charging equipment, packaging, prototyping, evaluation, mass-production launch and post-market support. It may also cover head-separated camera mechanisms, including specification definition, mechanism design, prototyping, evaluation, fixture and bonding-equipment design, and design verification using 3D CAD and CAE. Opportunities stated in the posting include medium- and long-term elemental technology development, prototype development and collaboration with overseas customers.

Required experience varies by assignment. Mechanical-design assignments require experience using 3D CAD or CAE, housing design and mechanism design using moving equipment such as bearings or linear guides. Drive and fluid-control assignments require experience developing systems or mechanisms related to actuator-control or fluid-control equipment. Sensor manufacturing-process assignments require process-design experience involving machining or surface treatment. Mechanical and physical sensor assignments require foundations in mechanics, physics or acoustics and design or evaluation experience. Analysis assignments require 3D CAD or CAE experience and experience building virtual models through simulation. Component mechanical design requires basic knowledge of strength of materials, basic processing knowledge such as resin injection molding, sheet-metal processing or die casting, and 3D CAD experience; the department uses NX but does not limit the software.

Preferred experience includes strength simulation, product drop or static-load analysis, thermal or structural analysis using CAE tools, optics, production engineering, production-line startup, electrical knowledge related to noise countermeasures, and medical-equipment development. The position is full-time and based at Canon's headquarters in Ota, Tokyo, or its Nasu site in Otawara, Tochigi. Working hours are 8:30 to 17:00. The posting states a five-day workweek in principle on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays, year-end and summer holidays, and 125 annual holidays. Benefits include transportation and overtime allowances, social insurance, retirement benefits, an employees' pension, savings programs, an employee stock ownership association, mutual aid, training, childcare-related reduced-hours work, recreational facilities and company events. Annual salary in the JSON-LD is JPY 4.3 million to JPY 8.7 million; overtime is paid separately except for managerial appointments, and final treatment is determined according to experience, ability and company regulations.