Sr. NPD Engineer - Design Integration

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

Working within an Instruments and Accessories team, develop next generation devices through a mix of direct design work, experimental inquiry, project leadership, and design control practices to drive progress on features and tradeoff judgments. The ideal candidate (i) possesses the grit and interest in making progress amidst diverse technical perspectives and (ii) is capable of endurance and flexibility –able to shift between leader, partner, or supporter, between hustle vs. deliberation, between dialogue vs. hands-on lab work, based on context.

Essential Job Duties

• Develop and down select novel design concepts that meet relevant clinical (e.g. performance, safety) and business (e.g. cost, scalability) needs
• Build and test prototypes to discover failure modes for proposed design concepts.
• Develop robust and creative test methods to facilitate rigorous understanding of the design - not just how a design behaves, but why.
• Collaborate with clinical, usability, design, and other interfacing teams to develop, negotiate, decompose, and substantiate device and device interaction requirements.
• Collaborate with process and supplier engineering to drive design manufacturability.
• Optimize the design based on rigorous understanding of design behavior, needs, tradeoffs
• Investigate issues using robust and efficient experimental approaches, employing statistical tools where appropriate.
• May mentor or oversee the work of junior staff or technicians

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in medical device industry
• Demonstrated ability to model parts / fixtures in CAD and successfully fabricate.
• Demonstrated skill in building R&D prototypes, or working with technicians to coordinate builds
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and appropriately down select designs based on sound understanding of needs and tradeoffs
• Ability to apply (or learn where needed, then apply) basic mechanical engineering first principles
• Understanding of requirements and risk and how they are utilized within the product development process
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute efficient and well-reasoned experimental plans and test methods
• Demonstrated ability to provide problem solving / investigation thought leadership
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities as a matter of routine, and handle complex tasks independently
• Demonstrated ability to follow through / sense of urgency
• Demonstrated hands-on approach and habitual curiosity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Required Education and Training 

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related engineering field.

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• Demonstrated success as a team Lead or other successful peer or formal leadership experiences
• Experience directly with catheter-based products
• Experience with products involving electromechanical features and software
• Experience troubleshooting or developing software or electrical design features
• Experience with data analysis tools and statistical methods
• 1 or more automation tools or cod