Manager, Mechanical Engineering

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 Manager Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Energy, is responsible for leading the technical development of advanced energy products at Intuitive. Their focus will be on the electromechanical design of advanced energy catheters and instruments, contributing to the exploration of novel system concepts for new applications of surgical robotics. The Manager Mechanical Engineering will have a direct role in the design and oversight of a new product portfolio based on advanced energy modalities, helping develop a cross-functional team to take the technology from benchtop to bedside. They will create and lead a Design Engineering team from an early phase and support innovative technology development and commercialization. They will manage scope, schedule, and budget for the technical development of novel advanced energy technologies. They will be hands-on and have both the technical depth to resolve complex mechanical, electrical, material, design, and manufacturing issues as well as the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team to troubleshoot and root cause higher-level system issues. They must have exceptional technical depth in relevant areas and have a track record of successful team building and product development efforts. Using their subject matter expertise, exceptional communication skills, and cross-functional collaboration, they will investigate and develop advanced energy applications for novel clinical applications across our robotic surgical systems.

They must excel in a high-energy, focused, small-team environment and be committed to high-quality prototypes and concepts. An exceptional sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required, as is a commitment to high product quality.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead a cross-disciplinary design team as a technical lead and engineering manager to develop and verify new concepts for advanced energy instruments and other flexible electromechanical instruments
• Lead and manage requirements generation/modelling; experience in requirement writing, translation, decomposition, management systems, tracing, HOQ/QFD, etc
• Develop and maintain system architecture, boundary diagrams, use conditions etc
• Lead risks identification and mitigation strategy per ISO14971 using tools such as HA and FMEA.
• Lead and manage a system-level technical risk register, including associated burn-down strategy and risk tracing
• Work closely with the test engineering teams to determine and develop the best methods to satisfy and verify design requirements and ensure design outputs are correctly assessed.
• Communicate to senior leadership the technical progress, health of development activities, program risks/mitigations, and key milestones
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel for technical team growth and development while mentoring junior engineers
• Support the quality and regulatory processes as required
• Landscape and generate valuable intellectual property
• Understands business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external technological activities to trends in medicine and surgery
• Engage in pre-clinical (ex-vivo, in-vivo) and clinical cases and participate in interviews with clinical experts to inform design
• Create Design History File documentation as required by