Manager, Systems HW Test Engineering

Primary Function of Position
The Systems HW Test Engineering team at Intuitive is devoted to assuring safe, reliable, and effective products that meet or exceed patient, surgeon, and hospital expectations. The team plays a vital role in new product development, product engineering, and the verification of da Vinci Systems. Manager, Systems HW Test Engineering will manage a team of test engineers and work shoulder to shoulder with the team and partner teams to develop and execute verification testing to meet product development timelines and continuously improve the team’s verification processes.
Essential Job Duties
Team Leadership
Manage a team of test engineers with mechanical, mechatronic or similar backgrounds
Hire, train, and develop team members’ technical and soft skills
Ensure team members are motivated, engaged and enthusiastic
Establish group objectives, metrics and individual work goals consistent with overall product development schedules and/or process improvement milestones for the team
Assign tasks, set priorities, and track progress
Execute resource management and control for planning, staffing, budgeting, and tracking
Provide vision for the test engineering team and foster an environment that encourages creativity and crisp execution
Champion best practices for verification
Cross-functional Leadership
Influence cross-functional project teams in the design, development, verification, and validation of new products with complex functionality
Prioritize and negotiate project and resourcing tradeoffs with project managers, engineering leaders, and lab resources
Form and maintain strong partnerships with cross functional partners in parallel organizations
Ensure successful, on-time completion of activities; communicates constraints and recommends preferred mitigation to direct management when successful activity completion is at risk.
Effectively communicates across various levels of the organization at core team meetings, product review board and design reviews
Technical Work Execution and Leadership
Generate test plans and protocols, execute tests, and write reports for verification tests and can guide the team in the same.
Strong ability to write good requirements and translate them into harmonized testable methods that employ appropriate test method validation strategies and guide the team in the same
Perform root cause investigation into test failures and guide the team in the same
Identify, create and improve processes, test methods, and test fixtures to drive operational efficiencies and guide the team in the same
Required Skills and Experience
Technical Skills:
Experience using tools and measuring equipment (Force Gauge, Calipers, Instron, etc.)
Ability to perform mechanical engineering calculations needed to support equipment design, including dimensional analysis
Experience with SolidWorks or similar CAD software.
Experience with MATLAB, Python, Arduino is preferred.
Experience working with electro-mechanical systems is preferred
Other skills and abilities:
Excellent attention to detail
Excellent written and verbal communication
Strong people management skills with the ability to deliver results while supporting the career development goals of team members.
Enjoys problem solving; an excitement to get to the bottom of challenging technical problems and root cause analyses.
Excellent organization skills, ability to prioritize multiple fast-paced activities simultaneously.
Integrity:
· Accepting and adhering to high ethical, moral, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others
Commitment:
· Must be available to work full-time and commute/relocate to Sunnyvale, CA to work onsite 5 days/week
· Ability to travel (<10%) as needed to support programs at other facilities.
Required Education and Training
Education and/or Experience:
· At least 8 years experience working in a HW engineering or test engineering role
· At least 2 years experience working in a regulated industry (Medical device, Aerospace, etc.)
· At least 1-3 years as a people manager, or equivalent project/team leadership, with proven ability to work well in a team environment
· Extensive experience defining HW test methods, writing protocols, executing tests and writing reports in a regulated industry. Medical device experience preferred.
· BS in Mechanical Engineering or similar degree. MS preferred.
· Familiarity with IEC 60601 safety testing is preferred
· Experience working through various phases of product development process is preferred
· Test Method Validation experience is preferred
Working Conditions
The employee will spend time at their desk in front of the computer as well as working in a lab environment.
Hands on testing including, but not limited to, using the robotic systems, mechanical test fixtures, performing IEC 60601 safety testing, etc.

Skills
Python, Process Improvement, SolidWorks, MATLAB

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No