Product Development Engineer

Product Development 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  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.

The Product Development Engineer will lead design and development projects for Intuitive training models. This position requires an extremely motivated and self-driven individual with a high capacity to learn, analyze and address problems in a fast-paced product development environment. It requires a proactive mindset, a strong understanding of the use cases for the models, and collaboration skills to address unmet needs and identify practical, cost-effective design solutions.

Joining Intuitive means joining a team dedicated to providing the highest quality and realistic training experience for our customers.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead product development projects for model iterations and design changes for improved user experience, training effectiveness and realism, manufacturability, reliability, and cost. Support new model introduction projects.
• Resolve unmet model needs and engineering challenges through rapid prototyping, design and testing, while collaborating with researchers, product management, scientists, KOL surgeons and engineers.
• Create design documentation including part specifications, drawings, BOMs, test protocols and reports.
• Interface with supplier, manufacturing and quality engineering to prepare for scalable production of the models, definition of new processes, and comply with quality systems.
• Perform root cause investigations for design related issues and design failure mode analyses.
• Document and provide manufacturing process instructions to manufacturing trainer for new and revised models.
• Support successful introductions of new and revised models to the manufacturing line.
• Develop products that meet quality control standards and influence quality control procedures and practices.
• Sustain existing designs to achieve cost targets and maintain component supply continuity.
• Select and test product packaging and work with vendors to convey requirements and select most appropriate design.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 3 years experience in design and product development.
• Knowledge and execution of ISO 9001 quality systems.
• Comfortable working with animal tissue and knowledge of basic anatomy.
• Strong knowledge of surgical/laboratory terminology, equipment, materials, and procedures.
• Demonstrated hands-on problem solving of mechanical engineering challenges.
• Experience with component design and fabrication methods including machining, 3d printing, laser/die cutting and thermoforming.
• Proficient with CAD models (eg Solidworks) and creating engineering drawings.
• Familiar with all phases of the product development lifecycle, change and design control systems and processes (eg Agile).
• Ability to work with standard computer applications:
  Smart Sheet, Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Visio.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills. Familiarity with Good Documentation Practices.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple fast-paced projects simultaneously.

Required Education and Training

• Minimum Bachelors Degree in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering or equivalent.

Working Conditions

• Ability to lift at least 40lbs.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• MS degree in an…