Staff Manufacturing Engineer

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a Staff Engineer for Manufacturing Systems and Standards. The role defines how manufacturing equipment is specified, developed, managed, and sustained globally, aligning best practices across units.

The position emphasizes governance, cross-functional collaboration, and value realization through standardized equipment lifecycle practices and enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Experience harmonizing and standardizing manufacturing standards across multiple business units.
• Ability to define and govern equipment standards and related processes.

Responsibilities

• Identify and consolidate existing manufacturing standards across units.
• Develop and maintain enterprise manufacturing equipment and process standards.

Skills

Manufacturing standards

Governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Equipment lifecycle

Process standardization

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The Staff Engineer, Manufacturing systems and Standards defines how manufacturing equipment is specified, developed, managed, and sustained across the company’s global manufacturing network. The role harmonizes best practices across business units, establishes governance to sustain alignment. It is a high-influence technical role that delivers through cross-functional collaboration rather than direct execution ownership.

Essential Job Duties

• Identify, harvest, and consolidate existing manufacturing standards, guidance, and best practices across business units, applying an align, standardize, govern, and sustain approach.
• Develop and maintain enterprise manufacturing equipment and process standards, leveraging industry standards including safety and design regulations where applicable (e.g., automation, controls and PLCs, robotics, vision systems, precision joining processes).
• Align and document equipment lifecycle best practices, from requirements and URS through qualification, spares, transfers, and sustainment.
• Serve as the DRI for Equipment standards, owning business requirements, governance, adoption, and value realization
• Establish and operate a governance model covering ownership, review cadence, and cross-business-unit alignment, using the organization’s designated engineering system of record.
• Prioritize standardization efforts based on business impact, readiness, and global manufacturing needs, in partnership with business units and domain owners.