Senior Design Engineer

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in Sunnyvale seeks a Sr. Mechanical Engineer to develop and sustain accessories for the da Vinci system. You will design components, support manufacturing transfers, and ensure high quality in a fast-paced team environment.

The role emphasizes innovative problem solving, ownership, and collaboration across disciplines to enable significant volume growth while meeting clinical and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Characterize sources of variations in product performance and implement mitigations accordingly.
• Investigate and determine root cause of design, manufacturing, or material issues.
• Resolve complex engineering challenges through hands-on product testing and cross-functional collaboration.
• Perform complex tolerance stack analyses to evaluate potential failures or performance concerns.
• Review and understand product functional and design specifications.
• Create, analyze, and test product designs and their components.
• Research, understand and design to relevant product standards.
• Develop, implement, test, and document solutions meeting clinical and product requirements.
• Designing for manufacturing and automation, sterilization processes and biocompatibility.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, purchasing, test engineering, and supplier engineering to transfer designs into production.
• Develop drawings for high-volume manufacturing including injection molding, machining.
• Develop Design History Files per FDA requirements.
• Adept in risk management and design control documentation.
• Support design for automation to enable growing volumes.
• Help establish individual and team goals aligned with project and company goals.

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

Accessories serve as the interface with the da Vinci system and enable safe and effective robotic-assisted surgery. They may be reusable or single-use medical devices (consumables), with yearly volumes in the millions. Our customers interact directly with accessories in every surgical procedure, and they serve a critical role in customer satisfaction and patient outcomes.

The Sr. Mechanical Engineer will work on product development of a variety of Accessories. The successful candidate must excel in a fast-paced team environment and be capable of creative problem solving when faced with the time pressures and design constraints typical of product development. They must have a strong sense of ownership, shared responsibility, commitment to high product quality and be comfortable collaborating across organizational boundaries. Projects will include a mix of product improvements, component enhancements, cost savings and manufacturing improvements to enable significant volume growth.

Essential Job Duties

• Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of manufacturing and field issues:

  • Characterize sources of variations in product performance and implement mitigations accordingly.

  • Investigate and determine root cause of design, manufacturing, or material issues.

  • Resolve complex engineering challenges through hands-on product testing and collaborate with subject matter experts both internal and external to organization.

  • Perform complex tolerance stack analyses to evaluate potential failures or performance concerns

• Design, develop and document components and assemblies for surgical system accessories:

  • Review and understand product functional and design specifications.

  • Create, analyze, and test product designs and their components.

  • Research, understand and design to relevant product specific standards.

  • Develop, implement, test, and document solutions that meet clinical, functional and product requirements.

  • Designing for manufacturing and automation, sterilization processes and biocompatibility.

• Provide mechanical engineering expertise to support continuous production of high-quality surgical accessories to our customers:

  • Collaborate with manufacturing, purchasing, test engineering, and supplier engineering to facilitate transfer of designs into production.

  • Develop components and product mechanical drawings in a regulated environment for high volume manufacturing processes, including plastic injection molding, thermoset compression molding, machining.

  • Develop Design History Files per FDA requirements.

  • Adept in risk management and design control documentation.

• Support design for automation such that our product designs can enable technologies that allow volumes to continue to grow year over year.

• Help establish individual and team goals aligned with overall project and company goals.