Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Catheters

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

Primary Function of Position

The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will steer design, development, and testing of components and sub-systems for new flexible instruments, steerable catheter-based devices, and accessories that will interface with a robotic system. The candidate will work primarily on flexible structures within a technical team and with outside suppliers to drive designs from a working prototype to a final, manufacturable product that meets customer and company needs. They will be responsible for developing and evaluating new technology solutions, establishing design requirements to meet customer needs, prototyping and refining designs and advancing them through the product development process to commercialization. The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy team environment, be capable of creative problem solving and efficient design iterations while ensuring attention to detail and quality when faced with time pressures. The ideal candidate will possess the technical expertise to understand complex mechanical designs and a passion for integrating quality into products. A steady sense of shared responsibility and commitment to high product quality is essential.

Essential Job Duties

• Design, develop, prototype, characterize, troubleshoot, and optimize flexible components and structures for next generation products. These include parts and assemblies made via extrusions, braiding, coiling, laser processes etc. There may also be opportunities for the design of rigid structures.
• Collaborate cross functionally to understand and drive clarity on clinical, usability, and business needs, and decompose these needs into design requirements.
• Develop test methods and assembly fixturing to support building and testing on prototypes.
• Drive rigorous understanding of design risk by learning not just how a design behaves, but why. Advance understanding of safety, performance, manufacturability, and associated tradeoffs to optimize the overall design.
• Collaborate cross functionally with supplier engineers, manufacturing process development engineers to drive design refinement from a working prototype to a final, manufacturable product and ensure smooth transition into production.
• Explore new materials, manufacturing processes, and technologies that meet all stakeholder needs.
• Prepare protocols/reports/summaries/readouts to capture and communicate design progress and defend / propose design decisions.
• Complete detailed drawings and conduct tolerance analysis statistical best practices appropriately.
• Drive failure investigations using rigorous but efficient experimental plans.
• Develop and manage relationships with external vendors.
• Collaborate with process and supplier engineering to drive design for manufacturing and support successful design transfer.
• Mentor and guide technicians and junior engineers.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 6 years of experience in a mechanical design role, preferably in medical devices.
• Specialist in designing complex flexible structures.
• Proficiency using CAD to create, fabricate, and document mechanical designs.
• Expert in design for manufacturability and design for assembly.
• Experience with a range of other fabrication meth