Sr. Electrical Engineer - Equipment Controls

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

The Sr. Equipment Electrical and Control Engineer will be an integral member of Intuitive Surgical AET team. The ideal candidate will be highly capable and play a lead role in the group’s activities including design, develop, test, implement, qualify, and maintain manufacturing equipment and software that support high-volume manufacturing of Intuitive System and Instruments and Accessories product lines. Expertise with custom equipment design and construction best practices will be leveraged to ensure that the manufacturing equipment is scalable and supportable in a high-volume, high up-time, multi-national manufacturing environment. Manufacturing and test equipment categories include hipot, continuity, PCA/ICT, leak/flow, robotic assembly cells, PLC controls, laser processes (welding, cutting, marking) and more. Success in this role will depend on the ability to manage numerous concurrent complex projects while maintaining the highest possible quality standards.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead cross-functional team projects focused on process and equipment development

• Define, build, and support the electrical and control systems for custom equipment. Create concepts, select, and source components. Design electrical panels, field wiring, and power distribution for custom automated equipment. Strive to create designs that are organized, structured, documented, maintainable, and reusable.

• Ensure manufacturing equipment designs meet functional, safety, and documentation requirements to facilitate efficient production operation across multi-national sites

• Develop electrical design standards, templates, and approved parts libraries to streamline and accelerate project execution across the team

• Provide technical mentorship to equipment staff on custom electrical and controls design as well as integration with manufacturing equipment.

• Manage multiple small-to-medium electrical projects concurrently

• Draft validation protocols and reports, and lead validation execution for equipment and processes

• Create and maintain equipment documentation

• Establish and manage external resources (contractors, system integrators, vendors) in the planning and execution of equipment projects. Transfer designs to contract manufacturers and support them with change implementations, training, maintenance, and troubleshooting

• Support manufacturing equipment by driving root-cause investigations and implementing solutions

• Improve test and manufacturing equipment to achieve better coverage, yield, and throughput

• Support quality and internal/external audits as required

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8-year experience in electrical systems and electro-mechanical systems design, preferably in the development, production, and support of automated equipment for the assembly of mechanical products.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills including electrical circuit analysis and design, and electrical load analysis. Demonstrated ability to systematically analyze complex processes, electro-mechanical equipment, software, and data systems to effectively identify the root-causes of failures

• Strong understanding and hands on experience applying NFPA 79, NFPA 70E, and Cal-OSHA safety standards

• Strong ability to create electrical schematics, system layouts, and complex system documentation

• Strong electrical design tools expertise, AutoCAD Electrical preferred. Experience developing and maintaining AutoCAD templates, sym