Senior Mechanical Engineer - Equipment

Joining Intuitive Surgical means joining a team dedicated to using technology to benefit patients by improving surgical efficacy and decreasing surgical invasiveness with patient safety as our highest priority.

The Automation Equipment and Test (AET) Group is responsible for making the robots that make the robots. We develop and support the equipment fixtures and tooling that enable optimize and streamline the manufacturing process for Intuitives Instruments Endoscopes and Accessories business unit.

Primary Function of Position

Design and construct manufacturing equipment used to produce minimally invasive medical devices. This equipment will range in complexity from custom manual fixtures to semi-automated electro-mechanical systems integrating work-holding sensing motion and vision control. This position will play a critical role in developing cutting edge manufacturing capabilities to enable the future of minimally invasive surgery.

The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of the technical aspects of mechanical engineering and design. He/she will work closely with manufacturing and product design engineers to develop and sustain custom equipment for production use.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Primary Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and build in-house manufacturing equipment from concept to implementation.
• Create effective design solutions of mechanical assemblies from simple fixturing to more complex assembly and fixtures for automation equipment.
• Iterate rapidly by prototyping testing and examining product designs using engineering methods and techniques including computer simulation and physical models
• Create and manage project plans including schedules budgets and stakeholder updates.
• Develop documentation for equipment including specifications assembly instructions maintenance and calibration procedures.
• Conduct effective design reviews of new equipment at all stages of development.
• Provide equipment-related technical support for on-going production operation and expansion.
• Establish and manage external resources (contractors system integrators vendors) in the planning and execution of equipment projects including duplication activities.

Additional Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ensure manufacturing equipment designs meet functional safety ergonomic and documentation requirements to facilitate efficient production operations.
• Create and execute protocol documentation for equipment DQ IQ OQ PQ validations.
• Provide controls-related root-cause analysis and technical support to on-going production operations.
• Support other equipment-related operations and duties as required

Qualifications :

Skill/Job Requirements:

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or similar; advanced degree preferred.

• Minimum 8 years experience with Bachelors degree or Minimum 6 years experience with Masters degree and experience in designing and developing automated manufacturing equipment.

• Proficiency with CAD (SolidWorks highly preferred): designing parts with complex geometry creating assemblies and creating detailed manufacturing drawings
• Comfortable operating machine shop measurement and test equipment
• Mechanical design and exploration skills including statics dynamics and strength of materials including stress analysis fatigue and thermal analysis.
• Experience in integration of mechatronics components such as sensors motors pneumatics and motion and vision control components.
• Experience in working with precision parts locating features machine tolerances
• Familiarity with pneumatic controls sensors vision systems servos and other actuators.
• Excellent understanding of tolerance analysis and statistical methods. Fluency in ASME Y14.5 GD&T and tolerance stack analysis
• Prior Experience developing equipment qualification calibration and PM procedures and practices.
• Prior Experience with enterprise software (e.g. Agile document control Confluence Polarion Windchill etc)
• Prior experience working with PLM systems (Agile preferred) SAP applications including ECO creation origination of equipment specification test protocols BOM and work instructions.
• Great attitude eager willing/able to take initiative works well with others in team environment.
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally. Travel requirements will be approximately 5%.

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 COVID-19.  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 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time