Senior Industrial Designer: Robotic Surgery & UX Innovation

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

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a Senior Industrial Designer to shape the next generation of robotic surgery systems. You will be hands-on across all design phases, turning user insights into meaningful design opportunities and exceptional user experiences.

You will partner with engineering, clinical development, human factors, user research, product management, and fellow designers to frame, define, and execute future product opportunities, leveraging ergonomics, materials, and manufacturability to

Responsibilities

• Em­ploys a user-centered design process to help teams frame problems and define opportunities.
• Individually leads projects, or partners with other industrial design team members on projects.
• Works with design leads and design managers on project planning.
• Distills technical and ergonomic requirements and develops a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability.
• Works with product development and engineering groups early in the product development lifecycle to provide user-centered thought leadership and generate conceptual product designs and opportunities.
• Collaborates with other UX Team members to create compelling integrated user experiences.
• Participates in user research, usability testing, and clinical research labs.
• Actively participates in cross-functional team meetings and other forums and proactively drives efforts forward.
• Utilizes a range of 2D and 3D tools and techniques to develop and communicate design opportunities.
• Combines Industrial Design objectives with the objectives of our process partners.
• Translates and captures brand attributes in compelling physical forms.
• Generates functional and appearance prototypes to conceptually explore and validate design choices.
• Delivers manufacturable design proposals to engineering for production.

Job description

Intuitive is seeking a Senior Industrial Designer to shape the next generation of robotic surgery systems. You will be hands-on across all design phases, turning user insights into meaningful design opportunities and exceptional user experiences.

You will partner with engineering, clinical development, human factors, user research, product management, and fellow designers to frame, define, and execute future product opportunities, leveraging ergonomics, materials, and manufacturability to