Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer - Sustaining

Primary Function of Position

Accessories serve as the interface with the da Vinci system and enable safe and effective robotic-assisted surgery. They may be reusable or single-use medical devices (consumables) with yearly volumes in the millions. Our customers interact directly with accessories in every surgical procedure and they serve a critical role in customer satisfaction and patient outcomes.

The Sr. Mechanical Engineer will work on product development of a variety of Accessories. The successful candidate must excel in a fast-paced team environment and be capable of creative problem solving when faced with the time pressures and design constraints typical of product development. They must have an effective sense of ownership shared responsibility commitment to high product quality and be comfortable collaborating across organizational boundaries. Projects will include a mix of product improvements component enhancements cost savings and manufacturing improvements to enable significant volume growth.

Essential Job Duties

• Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of manufacturing and field issues:
  • Characterize sources of variations in product performance and implement mitigations accordingly.
  • Investigate and establish root cause of design manufacturing or material issues.
  • Resolve complex engineering challenges through hands-on product testing and collaborate with subject matter experts both internal and external to organization.
  • Perform complex tolerance stack analyses to evaluate potential failures or performance concerns
• Design develop and document components and assemblies for surgical system accessories:
  • Review and understand product functional and design specifications.
  • Create analyze and test product designs and their components.
  • Research understand and design to relevant product specific standards.
  • Develop implement test and document solutions that meet clinical functional and product requirements.
  • Designing for manufacturing and automation sterilization processes and biocompatibility.
• Provide mechanical engineering expertise to support continuous production of high-quality surgical accessories to our customers:
  • Collaborate with manufacturing purchasing test engineering and supplier engineering to facilitate transfer of designs into production.
  • Develop components and product mechanical drawings in a regulated environment for high volume manufacturing processes including plastic injection molding thermoset compression molding machining.
  • Develop Design History Files per FDA requirements.
  • Adept in risk management and design control documentation.
• Support design for automation such that our product designs can enable technologies that allow volumes to continue to grow year over year.
• Help establish individual and team goals aligned with overall project and company goals.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8 years of medical product experience (Prior sustaining experience in high volume product preferred)
• Proficiency using CAD to design parts and assemblies and to create specification drawings in a PDM environment; Solid works highly preferred.
• Experience with complex interface compatibility and tolerance analysis
• Exceptional working knowledge of GD&T
• Ability to communicate effectively and accurately (written and oral) across all levels and functions including presenting to a technical audience.
• Demonstrated ability to think at a systems level interface between multiple design groups and negotiate conflicting requirements.
• A passion for solving tough technical problems - Proven mechanical intuition and persistence to drill down to pinpoint root cause of problems solving problems using fundamental principles.
• Working Conditions
  Ability to Travel up to 10%

Qualifications :

Required Education and Training

B.S. Mechanical or Biomedical Engineer (or equivalent) required MS preferred.

Preferred Skills and Experience (As applicable - Specific skills knowledge and experience that are not required to perform the job but are desirable to have)

• Proven experience with design for assembly manufacturing and automation. Experience working on products with volumes in the 10s of millions is preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of materials (preferably plastics silicones polyurethanes isoprenes) and material properties. Ability to apply knowledge of engineering materials and component selection criteria to product designs through strong concept development design analysis hands-on prototyping and reliability testing skills.
• Comfortable with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design implementation debug verification qualification and transfer.
• Comfortable with concepts of design input design output traceability and risk analysis.

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.

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 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