Senior Mechanical Design Engineer: Da Vinci Single Port Instruments

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
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Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Primary function of position:

At Intuitive, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. By combining ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. We are looking for team members with exceptional character who have the capacity to simplify complex problems and the energy to deliver solutions urgently to our patients. The Mechanical Design Engineer is responsible for developing, documenting, and validating new product designs, as well as improving existing designs to meet the needs of our customers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Drive Design efforts to optimize performance, manufacturability and reliability of existing and future Da Vinci SP instruments.
• Work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineers, Systems Engineers, Systems Analysts, Clinical Development engineers, Supplier Engineers
• Maintain awareness of customer needs and requirements – develop new device concepts as well as continuously improving existing designs to meet those needs.
• Create product functional and design specifications
• Analyze and test product designs
• Develop vendors to manufacture components
• Develop initial fixtures and processes to assemble components
• Develop product assembly instructions
• Develop and perform component verification testing and product validation testing
• Support production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems
• Provide engineering support to Manufacturing, Materials, Test Engineering, and Service to facilitate transfer of designs.
• Develop Design History Files per FDA requirements
• Investigate and establish root cause of both latent and emerging design, manufacturing or material defects
• Develop, implement, test and document solutions for these opportunities according to corporate standard and departmental operating procedures

Skill/Job Requirements:

• An excitement to learn and get to the bottom of challenging technical problems
• A passion for creating robust and reliable products as part of a cross functional team
• An exceptional team player who values collaboration and personal project ownership
• Minimum education: BSME required, MSME preferred
• Minimum 6 years experience preferred
• Experience with small mechanism design, plastics, and/or disposable medical products are a strong plus
• Proficiency using CAD to design and document mechanisms; SolidWorks preferred
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Mechanical design and analysis skills, including statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials and stress analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes (including injection molding, machining, MIM, heat treatment)
• Medical product experience desirable but not required.
• Experience with designing hardware products in a regulated industry for mission critical applications is desired; comfort with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis
• Familiarity with cleaning and sterilization processes and designing for sterilization
• Comfortable operating machine shop, measurement and test equipment

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

EEO and AA Policy

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.