Senior Medical Robotics Interaction Designer

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive, based in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Interaction Designer for the da Vinci team to shape next‑generation interfaces for multiport and single‑port robotic systems. You will guide design from concept to delivery, collaborating with Human Factors, engineers, product managers, and clinicians to create safe, intuitive experiences.

You will own complex interaction design in highly technical medical devices, define system behavior and feedback, and evolve the design language while ensuring

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design or related field experience.
• Expertise in physical or embedded interaction design.
• Proficiency in current design tools and software applications.

Responsibilities

• Design world-class physical and digital interfaces, upholding superior design standards and methods to deliver product experiences that push the frontier of human-computer interaction.
• Define the behavior of interactive and intelligent systems, driven by evidence and deep problem understanding. Design macro and micro interactions that communicate system capabilities, state, intent, confidence, and limitations, enabling users to effectively understand, supervise, and collaborate with increasingly sophisticated system behaviors while exploring, prototyping, and iterating through solutions to systematically narrow the solution space.
• Deliver design solutions that are desirable, feasible and viable, proposing and articulating clear and compelling design solutions with sound rationales. You will take part in evolving the product's design language to produce beautiful and functional interfaces.
• Contribute to design documentation and testing, writing clear, comprehensive and detailed user interface specifications for others to build and test against. Consider potential safety and usability risks together with our Human Factors Engineers and design necessary mitigations.

Skills

Human-centered design

Technical domain fluency

System interface design

Design craft

Collaboration

Communication skills

Empathy and listening

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in HCI

Tools

Design tools

Job description

Intuitive, based in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Interaction Designer for the da Vinci team to shape next‑generation interfaces for multiport and single‑port robotic systems. You will guide design from concept to delivery, collaborating with Human Factors, engineers, product managers, and clinicians to create safe, intuitive experiences.

You will own complex interaction design in highly technical medical devices, define system behavior and feedback, and evolve the design language while ensuring