Staff Mechanical Design Engineer

Company Description

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.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
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.

Job Description

The Staff 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 a strong sense of ownership, shared responsibility, commitment to high product quality and be comfortable collaborating across organizational boundaries. Projects will include a mix of new product development, product improvements, cost savings and manufacturing improvements to enable significant volume growth.

Essential Job Duties

• Drive cross functional team in re-design for cost savings:
  • Design, develop and document components and assemblies for surgical system accessories:
  • Create 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.
  • Support and participate in clinical and human-factor evaluations for new designs or design changes to ensure positive user experiences.
• 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 ands-on product testing and collaborate with subject matter experts both internal and external to organization.
• 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.
  • Work within multi-disciplinary teams to define requirements for new and current designs.
  • Develop mechanical assemblies, with careful consideration for key functions and safety while designing for manufacturability, reliability, and cost.
  • 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.
  • Contribute to the determination of future product release content.
• Provide technical advice and mentoring to other mechanical engineers.
• Contribute to strategy and 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.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 10 years of medical product experience (Prior experience in cost down and high volume manufacturing preferred)
• Demonstrated knowledge of materials (preferably plastics, silicones, isoprenes) and material properties. Ability to ap