Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Job Description
Primary Function of the Position
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer works in and/or leads cross-functional teams to maintain and improve the design production and service of the da Vinci Surgical System. This role reports to a Manager or Senior Manager of Mechanical Engineering. They determine root cause of complex problems with electro-mechanical components manufacturing process and system performance. They identify mechanical design and manufacturing process solutions to improve performance cost and reliability and perform the development documentation verification and implementation of these solutions.
Essential Job Duties
- Work in or lead cross-functional project teams to design develop and verify modifications to robotic or other complex mechanisms.
- Investigate and determine root cause of latent and emerging design manufacturing or material defects
- Develop design test document and implement solutions for these defects according to corporate standards and departmental operating procedures
- Identify develop and implement alternate part fabrication methods and sources to reduce hardware cost and/or improve strength of supply chain
- Develop and execute design verification/validation test protocols and document results in test reports
- Provide mechanical engineering support for resolution of field and manufacturing issues
- Support and/or provide leadership to product risk assessments Corrective and Preventive Actions and quality/regulatory audits as required
- Provide advice mentoring coaching and guidance to advance the technical and business expertise of colleagues
- Identify and implement best practices between teams and engineering departments
- Establish individual and team goals consistent with overall project goals
Qualifications :
Required Skills and Experience (Specific skills knowledge and experience that an individual must possess in order to successfully perform in job)
- Comfortable with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design analysis debug verification transfer to manufacturing and sustainment.
- Understand concepts of design input design output requirement traceability and FMEA risk analysis
- Technical expertise with mechanism design robotics and medical products
- Design manufacture and troubleshooting of electromechanical components and assemblies including brushless DC motors brakes encoders and other sensors
- Design manufacture and troubleshooting of precision mechanical components including bearings gears ball screws and linear actuators
- Component selection and design for reliability and manufacturability
- Mechanical analysis including statics dynamics kinematics stress fatigue thermal and reliability
- Design analyze and document components structures and mechanical assemblies in SolidWorks or similar CAD software
- Release designs following good documentation principles and configuration control methods
- Manufacturing process development and creation of assembly instructions
- Proficiency at failure analysis
- Fluency in ASME Y14.5 GD&T and tolerance stack analysis
- Demonstrated knowledge of a wide variety of manufacturing processes
- Metallurgical heat treatment stress relief grinding/lapping
- Component fabrication methods including CNC machining wire EDM brazing and surface coatings
- High-volume fabrication methods including plastic injection molding metal-injection molding stamping aluminum and steel casting (sand investment die)
- Capable of using MATLAB to create or modify test scripts and system software
- Experience with Statistical Process Control in a Mass Production environment
- Comfortable operating machine shop measurement and test equipment
Required Education and Training (As applicable - Specific education and training that an individual must possess in order to successfully perform in job)
- Minimum Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Biomedical or other engineering discipline may be acceptable with appropriate mechanical experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience designing and manufacturing electromechanical products. Work experience in an FDA or other regulated industry preferred.
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
Employment Type
Full-time
