Staff Quality Engineer

Company Description

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

Intuitive Surgical designs and manufactures highly complex surgical systems including cameras, instruments, and accessories for use in surgery. We are looking for a proven quality functional leader to support the projects associated with the development of next generation innovation products.

The Staff Quality Engineer supports product development from concept through commercialization and will serve as the core team member for the cross-functional product development team. Staff Quality Engineer will provide subject matter expertise and guidance to the team on design control and risk management from early development through design transfer, Design for Reliability and Manufacturing, product Development Life Cycle, and Process Validation. In addition, this position will play a working role to ensure that the developed products meet quality standards consistent with Intuitive’ s quality processes, while meeting all external design control and regulatory requirements.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Design Control and Risk Management Stewardship: Planning and execution of design controls, risk management, and design verification/validation for new products

• • Advocate product design history file and ensure compliance with internal processes and external standards and regulations.
  • Understand user needs and assure they are translated to the design, while ensuring compliance with usability and human factors standards and regulations.
  • Partner with engineering to define design inputs, design outputs, and traceability matrices.
  • Contribute to the strategy and execution of risk-based design verification and validation.
  • Accountable for overall risk management file: participate and support the development of product risk management file, to analyze and assess the product risks associated with user, design, process and supplier.

Support design controls activities associated with new product development. Advocate and ensure the transfer of reliable and scalable designs to manufacturing

• • • Review and provide feedback on design architecture, selections, requirements, and drawings from early design.
    • Collaborate with manufacturing, purchasing, test engineering, and supplier engineering to facilitate transfer of scalable designs into production.
    • Contribute to new product development Technical Reviews and Design Reviews.
    • Support Regulatory Affairs with creating submissions and responding to submission questions.
    • Author CAPAs to ensure implementation of timely and effective corrective & preventive actions.
    • Perform and/or support audits (internal, external, and by regulatory agencies).
    • Provide quality engineering support for the company’s contract manufacturing operations.
    • Coach, mentor, teach, and influence the engineering staff in best quality practices, data analysis, protocol development, and design for quality and reliability methods.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, biomedical or system engineering, math, or physics. Advanced degree preferred.
• Experience working with Energy Delivery products (e.g. Mapping Catheters, RF Ablation, Pulsed Field Ablation etc.).
• 12+ years of working experience in Quality Engineering or related field, minimum 6 years in medical device design environment specifically with Class II or Class III products.
• Advanced expertise in design control and risk management from early design and development through comm