Test Engineer 2

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 the Position The New Product Verification Department is devoted to assuring safe, reliable, and effective products that exceed patient, surgeon, and hospital expectations. The department plays a vital role in product and process quality, in new product development and production, and in the quality of da Vinci and Ion robotic product lines, including diagnostic systems, endoscopic instrumentation, and supporting accessories. The Test Engineer will work with a team of dedicated individuals within a product development team to assure the quality of new designs, to identify issues related to new designs and processes, and to work with other Test Engineers to develop harmonized test methods.

Essential Job Duties

Test Protocol Development, Execution & Reporting:

• Develops high level verification and validation test plans for instrument, accessories, endoluminal, or vision projects

• Generates and takes ownership of test protocols for Design Verification and Life/Reliability tests

• Collaborate with Design and Clinical teams to develop test methods needed to ensure design requirements are sufficiently verified

• Executes test protocols for clinically-based surgical simulation and automated testing utilizing da Vinci surgical system, Ion Systems and/or other test equipment

• Identifies and presents problems that arise during feasibility and design verification testing, and escalates new or persistent failure modes to appropriate engineering teams

• Collaborates with appropriate engineering teams on the failure investigation and root cause analysis.

• Clearly documents test results and observations in test report.

Test Fixture Development

• Designs test fixtures and other test aids needed to perform Design Verification and Life/Reliability tests

• Identifies processes and test methods that could benefit from new or updated fixture designs

• Works with other engineers to develop concepts and approaches to fixture design

• Responsible for documentation of fixtures utilizing SolidWorks; release of documents into Agile

Other Responsibilities

• Effectively translate the functional requirements into appropriate acceptance criteria for testcases and test methods.

• Train test technicians on test methods and procedures

• Ensures successful, on-time completion of department projects; communicates constraints to direct management when successful project completion is at risk

• Complies with company Department and Standard Operating Procedures

• Verifies and ensures adequate supply of test articles and other equipment or material

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

Technical Skills:

• Familiarity with equipment needed to perform typical performance measurements on electro-mechanical systems.

• Some basic knowledge of electrical systems, test equipment, and test practices is desirable.

• Experience using tools and measuring equipment (Force Gauge, Calipers, Instron, Oscilloscopes etc.)

• Ability to perform the basic mechanical engineering calculations needed to support equipment design, including dimensional analysis.

• Experience with MATLAB, Python, Arduino is a plus

• Experience with SolidWorks or similar CAD software is highly preferred

Other skills and abilities:

• Proactive and self-motivated engineer.

• Must be a quick learner with