Senior Mechanical Engineer - NPD

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 Ion™ endoluminal system is Intuitive's robotic platform for minimally invasive biopsy in the peripheral lung, with an initial goal of improving the early diagnosis of lung cancer.

Our New Product Development (NPD) team is seeking a candidate with an analytical mind and exceptional design skills to design and implement solutions while committing to the highest product quality for our robotic platform. The ideal candidate will thrive in a high-energy, focused, small-team environment and be comfortable handling multiple priorities.

This role is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing new business within Intuitive and contribute meaningfully to its future growth.

Essential Job Duties

This role works closely with clinical, electrical, industrial design, supplier engineering, quality and manufacturing teams to ensure designs of medical capital equipment meet clinical and user needs and perform reliably and effectively in the field. In this position, you will be part of a team of talented engineers in a focused, high energy, collaborative work environment, challenged to make sound decisions when faced with time pressures and ambiguous or incomplete information typical of issue troubleshooting and product development. You will be expected to use design and analytical skills to conceptualize, develop, and productize mechanical designs. Making sound decisions when faced with the time constraints and ambiguous or incomplete information is essential.

• Lead multi-disciplinary technical teams, working closely with Product Management and Clinical Development to translate clinical and user needs into requirements and specifications for new and current designs.
• Rapidly develop and iterate full-scale prototypes of candidate architectures to satisfy requirements
• Design components and produce mechanical drawings in a government regulated environment for volume manufacturing processes which may include cast metal, thermoforming, sheet metal, and others.
• Develop and commercialize mechanical assemblies, with careful consideration for key functions and safety.
• Perform risk analyses and develop design requirements. Document and test designs according to corporate and departmental operating procedures.
• Provide technical expertise to assist with the development of initial fixtures and assembly processes in collaboration with manufacturing and automation teams.
• Support production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems.
• Support the quality and regulatory processes.
• Help establish individual and team goals aligned with overall project and company goals.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience with mechanical design, including
  • Mechanical analysis, including statics, dynamics, kinematics, stress, fatigue, thermal, and reliability.
  • Proficiency at failure analysis.
  • Design, analyze and document components, structures, and mechanical assemblies in SolidWorks or similar CAD software.
  • Release designs following good documentation principles and configuration control methods.
  • Experience designing for volume manufacturing processes such as metal casting, plastic injection molding, sheet metal stamping, compression molding, thermoforming, etc.
• Self-driven with the ability to excel in a high-energy, small, focused team environment and maintain a strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward. Contributes to a positive and fun work environment.
• Capacity to lead multiple complex projects in parallel. Independently prioritizes activities across projects, ensuring high quality and de