Senior Mechanical Engineer, Robotic Surgery Instruments

Intuitive; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery, seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer for Instrument and Accessory Advanced Product Development in California. You will help feed the da Vinci product pipeline through early concept exploration, design, and testing of novel instruments and accessories.

You will work with suppliers, define design requirements, and transfer designs to New Product Development for commercialization, balancing customer needs, cost, and manufacturability.

Qualifications

• Minimum five (5) years of experience taking products from concept to production (medical product experience preferred).
• At least eight (8) years of experience with precision mechanical design.
• Understanding of mechatronics, robotics, and servo-controlled systems preferred.
• Proficiency using CAD to design and document mechanical designs; SolidWorks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work within cross-functional project teams to create, evaluate, and prove out new product architectures and refine them for hand off to new Product Development.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to understand the clinical, usability, and other needs of users of da Vinci systems as they relate to surgical instruments and accessories.
• Develop technical requirements for designs based on customer needs, commercial objectives, regulatory requirements, and feasibility constraints.
• Perform conceptual design, detailed design, analytical modeling, prototyping, data analysis, and troubleshooting of novel instruments and accessories for the da Vinci robotic surgical system.
• Develop and perform early performance testing with assistance from other functions; support bench, ex-vivo, and in-vivo testing with clinical experts.

Skills

Mechanical design

Mechatronics

CAD - SolidWorks

Project management

Communication skills

Education

BS in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Finite element analysis

SolidWorks

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery, seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer for Instrument and Accessory Advanced Product Development in California. You will help feed the da Vinci product pipeline through early concept exploration, design, and testing of novel instruments and accessories.

You will work with suppliers, define design requirements, and transfer designs to New Product Development for commercialization, balancing customer needs, cost, and manufacturability.