Sr Reliability Engineer

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:

We are looking for a talented individual to join our growing Reliability Engineering team focused on innovative approaches to reliability and life testing. This role has the opportunity to work creatively with a team of mixed disciplines, including SW, FW, SA, EE in addition to the reliability and mechanical engineers.

The primary function of this position is to make/review/improve/execute current plans for automated and semi-automated system/subsystems reliability testing. This includes design, procurement and assembly of test fixtures, and SW scripts required to limit human interactions throughout the reliability tests. Other important task is to lead/support current efforts by the design team for bench testing critical components and subsystems. The successful candidate must have a strong curiosity for how the system is performing its critical functions, also must be hands on with automation/control and data acquisition concepts and tools.  He/she must be able to work with EE/FW, SW, ME, RE and mechatronics engineers to not only understand the current in-house approaches to testing but also recommend improvements that paves the way for fulfilling the new vision.

He/she must have a proven track-record of automated test fixture development for medical capital and/or consumable equipment and extreme curiosity of the unexplored or unexplained, great attention to details, no fear of incomplete/developing specification and design documents, and most importantly, a passion to learn new things.

Job Description:

This position will contribute to the high-level strategies of the reliability team regarding testing and failure data collection and analysis. While the immediate focus is the system reliability, important cases in instrument and accessories may be also covered.  

The reliability team charter includes but not limited to, implementation of proactive reliability approaches during product development. The team provides vital guidance to ME, SW, FW, HW, and SA teams for data-driven design and operation decisions.  The team also regularly analyzes field data from previous generation of the product to identify improvement opportunities for both legacy and future products.  

• Review functional and reliability requirements of systems/subsystems to plan reliability/life tests that help evaluate the short/ long term compliance with the specs.
• Design, procure and assemble test fixtures to limit/eliminate the need for human intervention during the tests
• Test fixture design covers the mechanical & electrical parts as well as control platforms, algorithms & SW
• Work closely with SW, FM, IT and data team to enable automatic data collection during the system test. This includes the system logs and other critical info such as temperature, vibration, noise that may not be available directly from the system
• Modify/ develop the SW scripts necessary to run automated tests that cover the required subset of the system operational profile
• Plan interim quality and performance inspection required to verify integrity of the system/components critical functions during the test
• Work closely with quality, regulatory, and document control to properly document and release the test fixtures if used for finished products and features
• Provide regul