Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Primary Function of Position
At Intuitive, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. By combining ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. We are looking for team members with exceptional character who have the capacity to simplify complex problems and the energy to deliver solutions urgently to our patients.
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer is responsible for developing, documenting, and validating new product designs, as well as improving existing designs to meet the needs of our customers. This position requires a hands-on, technically strong engineer to dive deep into solving engineering challenges, and to provide high-level assessment of risks and opportunities. Projects will include a mix of sustaining existing products and new product development, including improvements for cost savings and manufacturability to enable significant volume growth, enhancements to increase customer satisfaction, and improving reliability.
Essential Job Duties
Drive Design efforts to optimize performance, manufacturability and reliability of existing and future Da Vinci SP instruments.
Work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineers, Systems Engineers, Systems Analysts, Clinical Development engineers, Supplier Engineers, Quality Engineers
Maintain awareness of customer needs and requirements – develop new device concepts as well as continuously improving existing designs to meet those needs.
Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of manufacturing and field issues.
Create product functional and design specifications
Analyze and test product designs
Develop vendors to manufacture components
Develop initial fixtures and processes to assemble components
Develop product assembly instructions
Develop and perform component verification testing and product validation testing
Support production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems
Support the CAPA and continuous improvement projects and quality/regulatory audits as required
Provide engineering support to Manufacturing, Materials, Test Engineering, and Service to facilitate transfer of designs.
Develop and maintain Design History Files per FDA requirements
Investigate and establish root cause of both latent and emerging design, manufacturing or material defects
Develop, implement, test and document solutions for these opportunities according to corporate standard and departmental operating procedures
Required Skills and Experience
• Minimum 6 years of experience preferred
• Experience with small mechanism design, plastics, and/or disposable medical products are a
strong plus
• Proficiency using CAD to design and document mechanisms; SolidWorks preferred
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Mechanical design and analysis skills, including statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials and stress analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes (including injection molding, machining, MIM, heat treatment, 3D Metal printing)
• Experience with designing hardware products in a regulated industry for mission critical applications is desired, comfort with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis
Required Education and Training
• Minimum education: BSME required, MSME preferred
Working Conditions
Ability to lift 30 lbs. without assistance.
Preferred Skills and Experience
• An excitement to learn and get to the bottom of challenging technical problems
• A passion for creating robust and reliable products as part of a cross functional team
• An exceptional team player who values collaboration and personal project ownership
• Familiarity with cleaning and sterilization processes and designing for sterilization
• Comfortable operating machine shop, measurement and test equipment
• Medical product experience is desirable but not required.

Skills
SolidWorks, Documentation

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No