Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Intuitive
Summary
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer is responsible for developing, documenting, and validating new product designs, as well as improving existing designs to meet the needs of our customers. This position requires a hands-on, technically strong engineer to dive deep into solving engineering challenges, and to provide high-level assessment of risks and opportunities. Projects will include a mix of sustaining existing products and new product development, including improvements for cost savings and manufacturability to enable significant volume growth, enhancements to increase customer satisfaction, and improving reliability.
Job description
Primary Function of Position
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer is responsible for developing, documenting, and validating new product designs, as well as improving existing designs to meet the needs of our customers. This position requires a hands-on, technically strong engineer to dive deep into solving engineering challenges, and to provide high-level assessment of risks and opportunities. Projects will include a mix of sustaining existing products and new product development, including improvements for cost savings and manufacturability to enable significant volume growth, enhancements to increase customer satisfaction, and improving reliability.
Essential Job Duties
- Drive Design efforts to optimize performance, manufacturability and reliability of existing and future Da Vinci SP instruments.
- Work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineers, Systems Engineers, Systems Analysts, Clinical Development engineers, Supplier Engineers, Quality Engineers
- Maintain awareness of customer needs and requirements – develop new device concepts as well as continuously improving existing designs to meet those needs.
- Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of manufacturing and field issues.
- Create product functional and design specifications
- Analyze and test product designs
- Develop vendors to manufacture components
- Develop initial fixtures and processes to assemble components
- Develop product assembly instructions
- Develop and perform component verification testing and product validation testing
- Support production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems
- Support the CAPA and continuous improvement projects and quality/regulatory audits as required
- Provide engineering support to Manufacturing, Materials, Test Engineering, and Service to facilitate transfer of designs.
- Develop and maintain Design History Files per FDA requirements
- Investigate and establish root cause of both latent and emerging design, manufacturing or material defects
- Develop, implement, test and document solutions for these opportunities according to corporate standard and departmental operating procedures
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years of experience preferred
- Experience with small mechanism design, plastics, and/or disposable medical products are a strong plus
- Proficiency using CAD to design and document mechanisms; SolidWorks preferred
- Good communication and documentation skills
- Mechanical design and analysis skills, including statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials and stress analysis
- Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes (including injection molding, machining, MIM, heat treatment, 3D Metal printing)
- Experience with designing hardware products in a regulated industry for mission critical applications is desired, comfort with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis
- Minimum education: BSME required, MSME preferred
- Ability to lift 30 lbs. without assistance
- Familiarity with cleaning and sterilization processes and designing for sterilization
- Comfortable operating machine shop, measurement and test equipment
- Medical product experience is desirable but not required
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Incentives
- Equity
- Medical, Dental & Vision
Company overview
Intuitive Surgical, Inc., commonly known as Intuitive, is a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company has revolutionized surgical procedures through its flagship da Vinci Surgical System and Ion endoluminal system. As a publicly traded company on NASDAQ (ISRG), Intuitive has established itself as the dominant player in robotic surgery, with over 15,000 employees worldwide and an installed base of thousands of surgical systems across more than 60 countries. The company's innovative platforms enable surgeons to perform complex procedures with enhanced precision, flexibility, and control through minimally invasive techniques. Intuitive's technology portfolio includes advanced vision systems, wristed instruments, and intelligent software that work together to optimize surgical outcomes. The company continues to expand its product offerings and geographic presence while maintaining a strong focus on clinical evidence, physician training, and patient safety. With annual revenues exceeding $8 billion, Intuitive represents a transformative force in modern healthcare, driving the adoption of robotic-assisted procedures across multiple surgical specialties including urology, gynecology, general surgery, and thoracic surgery.