Manufacturing 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
The Manufacturing Engineer, Advanced Energy, is responsible for the development of advanced energy products at Intuitive. They will have both the technical depth to resolve complex mechanical, material, and manufacturing design issues as well as the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team to troubleshoot and root cause higher level system issues.

Contribute your engineering design and analysis skills to design, develop and deploy equipment to test, measure, and deliver quality products and project management skills to a dynamic manufacturing engineering team creating precision instruments for minimally invasive robotic surgery.

The role requires active participation in the manufacturing engineering organization alongside our design and software engineering counterparts to refine electro-mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling and test methods to improve efficacy, reliability, manufacturability and cost for surgical robotic platforms and products.

Essential Job Duties

• Contribute to a collaborative team, which is focused on continuous improvement
• Employ Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFx) to develop optimal product architecture in terms of reliability, quality, and cost.
• Specify, design, document, and procure the equipment necessary to perform each process step.
• Plan, budget, and provide the production equipment necessary to meet manufacturing capacity requirements.
• Define lean manufacturing process flows to maximize production efficiency.
• Author process FMEA’s to identify and address potential manufacturing defects and minimize risks to patient safety.
• Validate manufacturing equipment and processes to ensure efficacy and compliance with applicable requirements.
• Maintain and improve production quality, yield, cost, and capacity.
• Maintain compliance with medical device quality system including corrective action closure, discrepant material disposition, and Engineering Change Order (ECO) implementation.
• Evaluate and help in the selection of suppliers for mechanical parts if required.
• Help resolve supplier quality issues.
• Update and revise Manufacturing Process Instructions (MPIs) to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Address line support issues as they arise; Document and report any variances, problems, issues, or concerns on all aspects of the manufacturing process
• Provide production personnel with expectations and performance feedback regularly in the production process
• Understand, train personnel, and enforce strict adherence to the applicable Department Operating Procedures (DOPs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of the Quality System
• Maintain up-to-date and accessible training records for MPIs and Quality System documents
• Assist in setting and attaining quarterly and annual production goals
• Learn and enforce company safety policies and practices
• Active participant in quality improvement initiatives, providing feedback to find the root cause and problem-solving.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Excellent organizational skills; able to manage multiple fast-paced assignments simultaneously
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally across a range of technical disciplines and cultures with a broad slate of stakeholders, including management, peers, customers, and suppliers
• Ability to solve complex technical problems with equipment and/or manufacturing processes

Required Education and Training

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science or related engineering or scien