Staff Medical Device Design Engineer High Volume Consumable

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:

Accessories often serve as the interface between other aspects of the da Vinci system and enable safe and effective robot-assisted surgery. They may be reusable or single-use medical devices (consumables), with yearly volumes in the millions. Our customers interact directly with accessories in every surgical procedure, and they serve a critical role in customer satisfaction and patient outcomes.

The Staff Mechanical Design Engineer will develop and support innovative surgical accessories for the da Vinci Surgical System, from concept to launch and beyond, with shared responsibility and shared reward. The successful candidate will understand user needs and requirements, balance individual product-level requirements with system-level requirements, resolve complex mechanical design issues, and commit to the highest product quality. Projects will include a mix of new product development, product improvements, and sustaining projects to mitigate challenges related to capacity improvements and supply chain.  Responsibilities include developing, documenting, and validating new product designs, as well as improving existing designs to meet the needs of our customers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Serve as lead technical designer on cross-functional project teams to develop new, world-class surgical accessories
  • Translate clinical requirements and user needs to functional and technical specifications.
  • Create intellectual property by brainstorming novel concepts, writing invention disclosures, and creating rapid prototypes.
  • Perform risk analyses; develop design requirements; prototype, document, test and iterate designs according to corporate standard and departmental operating procedures, including stringent Design Control activities.
  • Create and maintain engineering drawings to company and international drafting standards.
  • Support the quality and regulatory processes.
  • Contribute to the determination of future product release content.
• Design, develop and document components and assemblies for surgical system accessories
  • Create product functional and design specifications.
  • Create, analyze, and test product designs and their components.
  • Research, understand and design to relevant product specific standards
  • Develop, implement, test, and document solutions that meet clinical, functional and product requirements.
  • Develop and collaborate on verification testing.
  • Help develop initial fixtures and assembly processes in collaboration with manufacturing and automation teams.
  • Designing for manufacturing and automation, sterilization processes and biocompatibility.
• Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of manufacturing and field issues
  • Assess field reliability data and improve existing product designs as necessary.
  • Support production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems.
  • Investigate and determine root cause of quality, manufacturing, or material defects.
• Provide technical advice and mentoring to other mechanical engineers.
• Establish best practices within the team to drive a consistent approach to vetting designs
• Contribute to strategy and support design for automation suc