Senior Mechanical Engineer, Stapling Design
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Stapling Design
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Job Description
Intuitive Surgical designs and manufactures highly complex mechanical systems for use in surgery. These systems include both capital equipment and consumables in the form of surgical instruments and accessories. The senior mechanical engineer for Stapling Instruments will be a lead member within a team responsible for product improvements and sustaining of currently marketed stapling instruments in the field. The candidate will have both the technical depth to resolve complex mechanical materials and manufacturing design issues and the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team to establish root cause of higherlevel system issues. A proven sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required as well as a commitment to high product quality. The candidate will brainstorm and evaluate new technologies and mechanical designs in light of customer and company needs collaborate with suppliers to realize viable technical solutions and refine and implement designs for existing products. The successful candidate must excel in a highenergy team environment and be capable of creative problem solving.
Essential Job Duties
- Design develop and document components and assemblies for robotic laparoscopic stapler instruments and reloads
- Utilize engineering fundamentals to analyze a problem brainstorm potential solutions and conduct empirical confirmation of designs.
- Develop testing fixtures to perform verification and validation testing of a productionlevel components and products.
- Collaborate with supplier engineers and vendors to optimize component DFM (injection molded and machined).
- Create and maintain engineering drawings to company and international drafting standards.
- Participate in clinical lab testing to understand products performance; implement clinical feedback into products requirements and design.
- Guide projects through the design control process (risk analysis design specification design review etc.).
- Investigate and establish root cause of both latent and emerging design manufacturing or material defects.
- Assess field reliability data to evaluate and improve existing product designs.
- Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of manufacturing and field issues.
- Perform technical design reviews to solicit feedback on design progress.
Mentor and train less experienced engineers in the art of mechanical design; Guide or assist other design engineers through brainstorming prototyping and detailed reviews.
Qualifications :
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience:
- Experience with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design debugging verification qualification implementation and transfer.
- Excellent analytical aptitude with an emphasis on theoretical fundamentals experimental design and data analysis.
- Prior experience leading focused brainstorming sessions.
- High proficiency using software to design and analyze components and mechanisms; SolidWorks preferred (3D design & surfacing) MATLAB and Minitab (numerical analysis) Finite Element Analysis (such as Ansys/Simulation).
- Proficiency at failure analysis including root cause analysis techniques (e.g. fishbone 5 Whys etc.).
- Understanding of component selection criteria and design for reliability and manufacturability.
- Experience collaborating with manufacturers to optimize component DFM and DFA.
- Understanding concepts of design input design output requirement traceability and FMEA risk analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to create and execute an engineering test plan and write engineering test reports.
- Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) across functions including presenting to a technical audience.
- Comfortable operating machine shop measurement and test equipment.
- Prior experience working in a regulated industry (medical device preferred).
Required Education and Training:
- Minimum BSME with at least 8 years experience MSME with 6 years experience or PhD with 3 years experience
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes such as highvolume injection molding machining MIM and heat treatment.
- Mechanical analysis including statics dynamics and strength of materials.
- Familiarity with sterilization processes and designing for biocompatibility.
- Programming in PYTHON or C to interface and control electromechanical assemblies.
- Project Management experience a plus.
Additional Information :
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 COVID19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal 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.
Mandatory Notices
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 marketcompetitive 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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
