NPI Manufacturing Engineer

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive
. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care
, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion
—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare
, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary Function of the Position:
Contribute your technical manufacturing and equipment design skills to a dynamic development team developing sensing platforms for minimally invasive robotic surgery. The role requires active participation in new product development teams that create and refine electro‑mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling and test methods while challenging new product designs to improve efficacy, reliability, manufacturability, and cost for robotic surgical instruments.

• Create, maintain, and improve "low to mid-volume" manufacturing lines, specifying and/or refining BOMs, workflow processes, manufacturing plan and detailed work instructions.
• Experience developing manufacturing lines - building prototype parts, training operators, identifying fixtures/tooling needed and conducting process validation.
• Design, document, procure, qualify, implement, and improve fixtures, tools, and equipment.
• Define and document PMC processes for newly introduced fixtures and tools.
• Analyze manufacturing line from a risk perspective (PFMEA) to incorporate and validate critical tests used in manufacturing.
• Responsible for the validation and qualification of manufacturing equipment and processes to production status leveraging standard qualification approaches (IQ/OQ/PQ).
• Provide production support of sustaining and startup manufacturing lines as needed.
• Conduct testing of software releases before deploying on manufacturing line.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement projects with respect to first‑pass yield, cycle time reduction, product reliability, capacity enhancement and cost reduction.
• Provide product and process DFx (Manufacturing, Assembly) input to enhance manufacturability of new products.
• Maintain connections with leading manufacturing equipment suppliers and be aware of the latest state‑of‑the‑art processes and equipment.
• Execute and mentor others in manufacturing process validations, process FMEAs and other elements associated with production Master Validation Plans.
• Maintain compliance with medical device quality system including corrective action closure and Change Order implementation.
• Provide technical support analyzing and/or performing failure analysis for discrepant production components, assemblies, and field returns.
• Contribute to the establishment of group and individual objectives consistent with overall product development goals, including planning, priority setting, establishment of metrics, and effectively communicating progress.
• Provide resource planning and budget estimates for product and process improvements, tooling development, and testing.

• Prior experience with managing product and process changes.
• Diligent organizational skills and proven ability to simultaneously work on several fast‑paced projects.
• Must have experience releasing new product or manufacturing line through design/build process to production.
• Must possess strong communication skills to interface with technicians, product development, planning, purchasing, regulatory, inspection, customer support and clinical marketing teams.
• Proven technical,…